When nature grows on you
As we are inviting everyone to a blog fest, I better start myself! O.k., … I am sitting at lunch with Sunshine Mugrabi and we are talking about compostable furniture. We then get into deep conversation about the use of green space as transformative intervention for individuals, groups and organizations as away to develop more green awareness and behaviors.
We are touched and moved and shaped by the water we live in. While public art is supported by rich discourse on how environmental art can transform society, this understanding of the power of “connective aesthetics” (Suzi Gablik, Italian) lives in the world of participatory performance, visual art and architecture. My hope is for more fertile collaborations and cross-pollinations between artists, green architects and organizational theorists and consultants, who are working at the social levels – group, interpersonal and intrapersonal levels. There are evocative connections being made between open source movement and connective aesthetics, and connective aesthetics as embodied social corrective to disembodied times…..…. [click to read more and comment]
Experience from participatory choreography, group facilitation and inquiry into social improvisation leads me to advocate for creating projects that allow people to make connections between caring for the environment, each other and themselves via experiences that are emotionally and aestheticly rich, appreciative and participatory. The design of space makes a difference. This is because our emotions and senses are intimately coupled to the environment. In designing a transformative experience, I seek to design for simple fun ways for to people to physically jump into an “interactivist” practice — the self practices identifying with the interconnective processes of the senses, practices being hyper-aware of this interconnectivity, and plays with creative choices from this connected place. A pro-active awareness practice of Interactivism creates visceral opportunities for shifts of thinking about how deeply we are connected and builds capacity to step boldy into the unknown of trying out new relational behaviors, even while our new huggy behavior goes against the social norm around us. We can realize that, quoting Joanna Macy, the experience becomes “world as lover, world as self”
all for now, hugs (my space/ your space/our space), Tiffany