Body as Sensor Workshops

As humans, we explore our environment from our own specific sensory capabilities like animals or plants. We navigate the environment with our eyes,our nose, with our ears and our touch. But because we are so focused on seeing and thinking, which is much more valued in our society, we have little understanding and language for the role our more intimate senses play in the ways we move through our environment. Using the body as a sensor, we encounter the Amstelpark from all our senses and explore the importance of an embodied perspective.

Deep Mapping

Maps have been done for a very long time – they help us navigate and filter information. But what is often missing on a two-dimensional map? What experiences, memories, sounds and smells are not on it? In this session, we explore the Amstelpark from a multi-sensory perspective in which we deviate from the paths and explore the park from various senses. We then set to work on mapping unlived experience of a place.

Deep Listening

Our ears are open 24/7, but that does not mean we listen carefully to all information. With deep listening you try to listen as far and as close as possible, and a world opens up that reaches further and deeper than mere sight. The Amstelpark is rich in many species of animals, waters and voices, which we can meet in new ways through our hearing.