An Educations for the Future MANIFESTO — Parallel sessions abstracts
Friday 15 November
11.00-12.30 — Contributions by SenseSquared partners
The Beast. Exploring the essence of human communication
by Pak Yan Lau and Hans Van Regenmortel (Musica Impulse Centre)
Interactive performance and workshop
The Beast. Bizarre piece of furniture, infinite musical instrument, or source of connection? The Beast is large and purrs and growls, but is otherwise harmless. You can challenge and tame The Beast, play it with all kinds of materials, or rig it up as a mobile sound installation.
How do we relate to each other? How do we relate to things? How do we relate to the world? The Beast invites to tactile experience, listening in amazement, but above all connecting and truly communicating.
Fall under the spell of The Beast, and what it teaches us about human communication and connection. Join us in finding the source of participation and mutual understanding by experiencing shared attention.
hEAR DROPS. An online invitation to sensory musical interaction between children and teachers
by Dries Janssen (Musica Impulse Centre)
Workshop
Can an online offer result in more sensory musical interaction between students and teachers? hEAR DROPS is not a tool in the usual sense. Rather, it is an online artistic invitation that fuels real-world interaction by putting children and teacher in the same boat. The format brings forward new perspectives on (music) education based on shared attention.
02.30-03.30 — Contributions by SenseSquared partners
The Beast. Exploring the essence of human communication
Free interactive exploration by participants
The Construction of “We”. Empowering teachers’ music practice
by Kirsten Halle (University of Stavanger) and Nora Bilalovic Kulset (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Lecture and singing together
Singing together serves as a vital avenue for fostering connections among individuals across various social contexts and societal levels. While this communal activity is expected to flourish in schools, kindergartens and nurseries, recent studies from multiple countries have highlighted a growing decline in confidence and engagement in singing among both educators and students. Addressing this decline, Kulset and Halle (2020) introduced the concept of ‘we’, underscoring the importance of adult companionship and collective music-making. This study delves deeper into the notion of ‘we’ and explores its practical implications. Using Fredrickson´s broaden-and-build model of positive emotions we explain how the building of a safe collective relationship can foster new behaviors. In these musical contexts participants broaden each other’s momentary thought-action repertoire, building their personal resources and music-making skills. In this presentation we will demonstrate the wider conception of WE, emphasizing why we believe this is the key towards a more musical practice in kindergarten and schools.
hEAR DROPS. An online invitation to sensory musical interaction between children and teachers
by Dries Janssen (Musica Impulse Centre)
Workshop
Summary: see earlier
Saturday 16 November
11.00-12.30 — Contributions by SenseSquared partners
The Poetic Self Exercise
by Sisters Hope
Workshop
The Poetic Self is not a fiction. Not a character. It is you. Something that lives within you that you might or might not express in your everyday life. Your inner inherent poetic potential that you explore and unfold.
The first step towards finding The Poetic Self is The Poetic Self Exercise. The exercise is core to Sisters Performance Method – Sensuous Learning, which has been developed and refined by Sisters Hope since 2008. The method integrates sensuous and aesthetic experiences into learning processes, and it aims to “democratize the aesthetic” by making art and the poetic modes of being accessible to everyone. Sisters Hope argues that the aesthetic dimension has been under-prioritized since the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, when cognitive and rational perceptions were prioritized over sensuous experiences. By activating the sensuous and creating spaces for poetic exploration, Sisters Hope advocate a more sustainable and aesthetically oriented future which they call The Sensuous Society.
Practical Tools for Nurturing Artistic Attitudes in the Classroom
by Ilse van Lieshout and Dagmar van Wersch (Marres, House for Contemporary Culture)
Workshop
Marres believes that artistic research can be a great source of inspiration for teachers. In artistic research, artists perceive, connect, and imagine possible worlds. Marres has developed simple tools to help teachers adapt artistic research in educational settings with the aim of stimulating ownership, creativity and imagination in students. During this workshop, Marres will demonstrate some interventions explored in classrooms and invite you to join and experience.
14.30-15.30 — Contributions by SenseSquared partners
Zooming One Thousand Birds — Moving towards a Cartography
by Ana Isabel Pereira and Helena Rodrigues (FCSH- Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and Companhia de Música Teatral)
It is becoming increasingly important to draw attention to the need to save the world in which we live: there are many ways to do so. Learning to look and listen poetically is one of those ways and is something that should be encouraged from the earliest age. The idea of “attunement” has been present in a significant way in Companhia de Música Teatral’s work, where the term refers to the quest, through creative experience, for a better attunement between people and the environment. We invite you to see how this was accomplished in Zooming Thousand Birds, an online learning experience that took place in the context of the SenseSquared project.
Thoughts on the continuity of life (and education) through music
by Serena Romello, Jolien Van De Sande and Hans Van Regenmortel
Interactive performance and lecture
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