My colleague Patricia V. and I will present the following workshop on the topic of "practices of language and languages of practice" at the RMIT University / Parsons School of Design - The New School's Practice Research Symposium on December 2 in New York.
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Situating I, Situating Us: An Experiential Activation of Language
As a participatory design exercise, our workshop is as a ritualistic invocation of the emergent individual, the relational friend, and the co-created community. An interplay of language in the limitless potential of dimensions, along with making, is organized in a spiraling, double-helix methodological sharing of Guarani from Paraguay, Telugu and Tamil from South India, in addition to India’s classical language, Sanskrit, sound, weaving craft, and somatic practices of movement. The resonant languages traverse a trajectory of expansion and growth in their genesis to propagate a communal, reciprocal ceremony of sensory-based making using a wooden frame. A composition of a visual language that presents itself through the embodiment of design as a reflective practice.
We share and reflect on varying materialized propositions linked to temporal notions of the past, present, and future; identities radiating from our ancestors, in particular the matriarchy; and context related to place and displacement. Through this experience, we explore the languages of practices and the practices of languages, fostering an embodied, reciprocal multimodal dialogue. It is an invitation to create, reflect, and world together through the act of making and the shared ritual of language.
