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Somatics Toolkit

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About the Toolkit

  • Original Project Home Page Welcome Text
  • Team Members + Updated Professional Links
  • Is this for me?
  • What can I expect?

Video Presentations and Methodology

  • Somatic Toolkit Project Video
  • Somatic introduction and knowing with the body (NCRM video 1 of 3)
  • Movement exploration of lines, angles and circles (NCRM video 2 of 3)
  • The body as research instrument in your research cycle (NCRM video 3 of 3)

Core Practices by Project Team

  • How to use the Core Practices?
  • Before you begin
  • 1 Body Basics: Arriving
  • 2 Literature: A Spatial Approach
  • 3 Identity: Noticing Your Lenses
  • 4 Confidence: Taking on the Researcher’s Mantel
  • 5 Observation: Seeing and Being Seen
  • 6 Interviews: Intimacy and Reciprocity in the Field
  • 7 Places: Being in the Unknown
  • 8 Analysis: Moving with Polarities
  • 9 Writing: Embodying your Thoughts
  • 10 Presentation: A Full-Bodied Performance

Extended Practices by Guest Facilitators

  • A Non-Binary Guide to Embodying One's Embryonic Gonads by Nicole Bindler
  • Blood Work Part 1 Finding your Pulse by Terp Høybye + Hallager Andersen
  • Blood Work Part 2 Flow by Terp Høybye + Hallager Andersen
  • Blood Work Part 3 Solids by Terp Høybye + Hallager Andersen
  • Butoh Walk by Paola Esposito
  • Challenging Research Situations by Lene Faust and Simone Pfeifer
  • Comfort, Discomfort and Transformation by Andrew Suseno
  • Dancing with the Camera by Claire Loussouarn
  • Deep Nerves of Rest and Restoration by Roxlyn Moret
  • Empathetic Fatigue by Elizabeth Maynard
  • Moving with the Breath for Presence and Connection by Marcia Donadel
  • Relief from Overwhelm by Elizabeth Maynard
  • Spatial awareness and gaze a solo exploration by Deborah Black
  • Spatial awareness and gaze working with others by Deborah Black
  • Working with Challenges or Working from Inspiration by Elizabeth Maynard
  • Yielding as an Ecologically Sensitive and Somatic Practice by Tamara Ashley

Blog Posts

  • 1. The body as research instrument by Eline Kieft
  • 2. The politics of Somatics by Ben Spatz
  • 3. Bringing research activities into the body by Eline Kieft
  • 4. Em-Body-Ing an Other-ed Body by Fatima E. Adamu
  • 5. Thoughts from Lisbon, Berlin and Madrid by Doerte Weig
  • 6. What Should go in a Somatic Toolkit? by Rosa Cisneros and Marie-Louise Crawley INCL Photos from here
  • 7. Deepening interviews through shared movement by Mila Bammens
  • 8. Embodied awareness as pedagogy and practice for academic resilience by Elizabeth Maynard
  • 9. The Perils of Un-Physical Education: a personal narrative by Elizabeth Maynard
  • 10. Palestinian Dance and the Obfuscation of Somatic Source Material by Nicole Bindler
  • 11. Knowing the Body in the Virtual Field Site by Harsha Balasubramanian
  • 12. somatics: an undichotomizing poetic: a provocative invitation by Bronwyn Preece
  • 13. Autonomous Bodies by Deborah Black
  • 14. Working with Head and Blood y Marie Hallager Andersen & Mette Terp Høybye
  • 15. Yielding as an ecologically sensitive and somatic practice by Tamara Ashley
  • 16. Sound(e)scapes: Singing as self-care tool during fieldwork at home by Caitlin Pilbeam
  • 17. “Tuning” with a personal somatic toolkit by Marcia Donadel
  • 18. From Kafka’s Burrow to Underground Sensings By Johannes Birringer

Podcast Series 1 Remember Your Body in Anthropology

  • 1 Véronique Bénéï: Body Education in India and Slavery History in Colombia
  • 2 Jerome Lewis: Learning about Culture through Physical Participation + Bonus Content!
  • 3 Jonathan Skinner: Body Concerns in Fieldwork, Analysis and Writing
  • 4 Tim Ingold: Crisis of Ethnography and Problem with Embodiment and Becoming
  • 5 Johannes Birringer: Body, Performance, Technology, Underground Spaces

Podcast Series 2 Remember Your Body in Architecture

  • 1 Gil Hedley: Human Anatomy, Fascia, Body Fat and Consumer Culture
  • 2 Erin Manning and Brian Massumi Part 1: Critical Somatic Individualisation and Movement in Education and Architecture
  • 3 Erin Manning and Brian Massumi Part 2: Economic Challenge to Reorganise Valuing Money
  • 4 Arawana Hayashi: Social Presencing, Improvisation, Body-Mind connection for Awareness in Society
  • 5 Auxiliadora Galvez: Spatial Awareness, Feldenkrais, Radical Sustainable Architecture
  • 6 Peter Merriman: Mobility Studies, Social-Cultural-Political Dimensions of Movement
  • 7 Juhani Pallasmaa: Experiencing Architecture through Art, Sensing, Mind-Body Continuum, and Architecture as a Gift

Archive & Project History

  • Presented at...
  • Launch Event Programme & Invitation
  • Launch Event Images Doerte Weig
  • Somatics Toolkit Flyer
  • Somatics Toolkit Standing Banner
  • NCRM Grant Application Form