This workshop helps us re-evaluate our relationships with the materials and our consuming habits, play with materials and our senses to explore their possibilities, and Reimagine a more organic way of living where we can sense the human hand with its perfections and imperfections and it’s inspiring changing pulsating actions. We’ll be talking, imagining and producing our work along with our imaginations to contain them collectively in our personal spaces and collective ones.

In an open discussion, participants are asked to bring an object/material that they feel some connection to but have forgotten a little bit about it with them before coming, they get to introduce themselves, I ask some questions about our relationship with the materials in our practice and in general and our consuming habits and we talk about our dear objects.

Through a sensory experience, we then explore the process of changing a substance from an unmentioned value to something valuable. A piece of clay is a way to express the feeling we are going through in this journey together. We try to translate our individual feelings through our hands and our bodies and use any of the materials in front of us to embody the feeling and the story in a tangible physical form. We hear, see, smell, and feel how the rhythm changes the interaction with each passing circumstance.

Finally, we take a walk together in silence and try to see if what we experienced would change our way of looking at things that we usually see every day in the streets, try to look for inspiration for new work or think and see some bad consuming habits that we need to work on, or a missed opportunity that we can take advantage of, take photos of, or do whatever it takes to remind us to always choose the sustainable way whenever we can.

In a closing discussion, we collectively reflect on what we experienced and share together our thoughts and feelings towards it, share with each other, what we found during the group walk, And maybe if we feel like it, we can exchange the pieces that we made during the sensory experience to always remember that we sometimes might have to let go.