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SUMMARY:Arianna Mazzeo | Choreographing the City: Morning Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Arianna Mazzeo: On gestures beyond performance\, urban bodies and artistic research into the unknown. \nDr. Arianna Mazzeo is teaching at Harvard University\, Methodologies and Practice in Design Engineering Research and advising for Independent Design Engineering Projects (IDEP). She is Associate Visiting Professor of Practice in Design\, Art\, and Technology\, and a Senior Research Fellow at RISD and at NYU TISCH Performance Studies\, introducing innovative design research and experimental pedagogies for social change. By critical and “artistic intelligence” as design intervention in the public domain\, her research focus to transform\, co-create and sustains resilient public space and healthy communities\, cities\, and regions through the psycho-physical pedagogy of embodiment. Her research is focused on creation of new public and lexicon for social-spatial inequalities through creative process and AI\, educational innovation in design\, and co-producing collaborative pedagogies for open creative arts education\, with human and non-human\, and the public space. \nMonday morning conversations are part of the CHOREOGRAPHING THE CITY – Dr Adesola Akinleye’s residency at MIT\, that is  hosted by prof. Gediminas Urbonas and ACT course 4.314/4.315 and supported by CAST – The MIT Center for Art\, Science & Technology. \nInvited guest speakers include: \nSept. 14th  \nDr. Ellie Cosgrove Director\, UCL Urban Innovation Lab \nSept. 28th\nDianne MacIntyre\, dancer and choreographer \nOct. 5th\nProf. Richard Sennett \nNov. 2nd – 11:00 am EDT\nArianna Mazzeo\, designer and choreographer \nNov. 2nd – 5:30 pm EDT\nProfessor Hufanga Dr. ‘Okusitino Mahina\, Professor of Art\, Culture and Critical Anthropology Tonga International Academy \nNov. 9th – 11:30 am EDT\nScott L. Pratt\, Professor of Philosophy\, University of Oregon \nNov. 16 – 10:30 am EDT\nDr John Bingham-Hall\, Director Theatrum Mundi\, London \nNov. 30th – 10:30 am EDT\nLiz Lerman\, choreographer and founder of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange \nBellow please find more about the ACT course 4.314/4.315 and the artist in residence at MIT: \nMIT Fall 2020\nChoreographing the City\n4.314/4.315 | Advanced Workshop in Artistic Practice and Transdisciplinary Research \nProfessor: Gediminas Urbonas\, urbonas@mit.edu\nVisiting artist: Adesola Akinleye\, Dancing Strong\, London\, UK\nTA: Chucho Ocampo\, chocampo@mit.edu \n“If I can’t dance\, I don’t want to be part of your revolution”\n-Emma Goldman \nThe Choreographing The City course at MIT is researching an emerging lexicon (for movement in urban space) that connects to ideas shared across dance-making (choreography)\, to building/city-making (community). Developed in dialogue with Theatrum Mundi\, prof. Richard Sennett and MIT CAST AiR visiting artist and choreographer Dr Adesola Akinleye the course asks the question: how do we become attentive to a community’s emotional\, cultural and corporeal memory in order to move beyond the scripted spaces and codified routes? The aim of the course is to explore how transdisciplinary research and creative collaboration between choreographic and spatial practices can respond to the urgencies of this time and create new techniques\, lexicons\, and ways of engaging the community to produce more just spaces. Participants will look at how choreography (‘three-dimensional language’) can contribute to larger discussions across subject areas that engage with movement in space and the placemaking that the experience of choreography (dance) creates. \nHow do we make a Place for embodiment in our practices?\nHow do we inhabit the computer screen\, the city and our own bodies?\nCan we see design as an organic\, collaborative entity of people’s experience?\nWhat tools do urban designers and engineers have to develop to understand how spaces work as movement systems?\nWhat tools do communities have to describe the experience of Being in the Places they live?\nWhere and How do we create space for the embodied in our practices? \nIn addition to lectures\, class discussion\, outdoor exercises and individual studio meetings the class is hosting Soma-sessions: special workshops facilitated by DancingStrong dancers that involve the bodily (such as some group movement to begin a discussion\, somatic practices including gyrotonic breathing\, being physically present in unexpected geographic locations beyond MIT campus\, and etc.). \nIf you have any questions please email to: urbonas@mit.edu and chocampo@mit.edu \n—-\nHosted by ACT Professor Gedminas Urbonas\, Dr Adesola Akinleye\, starts her residency supported by CAST AiR program at MIT. \nAkinleye collaborates with MIT faculty\, researchers\, and students in Architecture\, Urban Planning\, ACT\, and the Media Lab\, as well as external collaborators from Theatrum Mundi\, an organization that engages in research and teaching on the public lives of cities.\nThrough lectures\, performances\, workshops\, and class discussion\, this project asks questions such as: Within our practices\, how do we become attentive to a community’s emotional\, cultural and corporeal memory in order to move beyond the codified routes used to initially understand them? What approaches can we take to seeing the City as facilitated by an art of infrastructure? Can we see the City as a collaborative entity shaped through somatic knowledge of a Place? What tools do communities have to describe the experience of Being in the Places they live? \nAdesola Akinleye is a choreographer and artist-scholar. She began her career as a dancer with Dance Theatre of Harlem (USA) later working in UK Companies such as Green Candle\, Carol Straker and Union. Over the past twenty years she has created dance works ranging from dance films\, installation and texts to live performance that is often site-specific and involves a cross-section of the community as well as acting as guest choreographer for company and University repertoire. Her work is characterized by an interest in glimpsing and voicing peoples lived experiences through creative moving portraiture. \nLinks to visiting artist’s web site(s)\nwww.dancingstrong.com\nwww.narratingspaces.com (work in process)\nwww.choreographing.city (notebook) \nGediminas Urbonas is an Associate Professor in the MIT Program in Art\, Culture and Technology\, and co-founder with Nomeda Urbonas of Urbonas Studio\, an interdisciplinary research practice that advocates for the reclamation of public space\, stimulating cultural and political imagination as tools for social change. Combining new and old media\, Urbonas Studio’s work frequently involves collective activities contributing to the cross-disciplinary exchange between several nodes of knowledge production: network and participatory technologies; sensorial media and public space; environmental remediation design and spatial organization; and alternative planning design integration. They also collaborate with experts in different cultural fields to develop practice-based artistic research models that allow participants—including their students—to pursue projects that merge urbanism\, new media\, social sciences and pedagogy to critically address the transformation of civic space. More at: http://www.nugu.lt/us/ \nChucho (Jesús) Ocampo Aguilar (Mexico City\, 1991) is an architect and artist. Working in the intersection of art\, architecture and technology. Chucho is currently a Partner in dérive LAB\, an art\, architecture and urbanism firm\, where he works as Creative Director\, particularly with projects related to housing\, urban design\, public space interventions and cultural management. Chucho is co-founder of BEMA\, a cultural center in the heart of Querétaro\, México; dedicated to Art\, Architecture and the City. Chucho’s artistic practice uses psychogeography\, architecture\, landscape and public space as a tool to shine a light on the beauty and complexities of everyday life. He is currently a first year SMACT candidate of the Art Culture and Technology program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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