Kurs odbywać się będzie w formie stacjonarnej.
Cele kursu:
The course aims at a better knowledge of the self, helps to emancipate from imposed longings, proposes a critical distance to normalized longing, and gives individuals the possibility of understanding and using longing as an individual and collective resource to create meaningful futures for oneself and others. For qualitative researchers, this course also offers new pathways of collaborative ethnographic through the exploration of longings.
Tematyka kursu:
Proposition of a series of methodological exercises that engage longing as a method of personal, collective or research enquiry: with individuals, in pairs, in larger groups and include techniques of mapping, dialogue, and movement. Encouragement to include longing actively and creatively in the personal development journey and/ or (ethnographic) research practice. It initiates a process of thinking about how to fruitfully work with longing in the context of one’s own life / or research field.
This course runs over six meetings over two weekend and in each meeting we will explore a different area:
1. Why longing is a powerful and dangerous resource
2. Walking through landscapes of longing
3. Dialogues with longing
4. Museum of longings
5. Choreography of longings
6. Weighing up longings
7. Conclusion: Future of longings
Efekty uczenia się:
As a participant you will be aware of longing as an anthropological resource and force of personal and social change. You will develop your own way of understanding longing in the context of our your life and future, the community you live within, and our global future.
Metody pracy:
We will be working in workshop style, using performance, art, materials, and dialogue, imagination, and sometimes audio-visual media as our tools.