Choreographing the City at MIT

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This podcast is the result of the morning conversation series held in the Choreographing the City class, offered by MIT's Art, Culture and Technology program in partnership with Theatrum Mundi, prof. Richard Sennett, taught by Prof. Gediminas Urbonas, and MIT CAST visiting artist and choreographer Dr Adesola Akinleye. The Choreographing The City class looks at emerging lexicons (for movement in urban space) that connect to ideas shared across dance-making (choreography), to building/city-making (community).

02/03/2021

Episode 1. Bridges: discovery and togetherness with Dr. Ellie Cosgrave

Gediminas Urbonas and I are joined by engineer Ellie Cosgrave in the first of Choreographing the City residency morning conversation series. The conversation sets the scene for why this inquiry of Choreographing the city and reflects the frameworks to enable practices (such as dance and engineering) to come together without just re-establishing the same old issues but in each other’s spaces. The conversations suggest noticing constructions for what discovery, power and encounter mean to us are also starting points for how to arrive in the togetherness of collaboration or cross disciplinary inquiry. We also discuss moments in terms of the poetics of encounters with weight. References and further reading: Akinleye, A. (2019). ‘[…] wind in my hair, I feel a part of everywhere […]’: Creating dance for young audiences narrates emplacement, Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, Vol 11, No. 1, pp. 39-47(9) https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp.11.1.39_1 References to Adesola’s discussion on Moments and nowness of dance. Bingham-Hall, J., & Cosgrave, E. (2019). Choreographing the city: Can dance practice inform the engineering of sustainable urban environments? Mobilities, 14(2), 188-203. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2019.1567981 Paper discussed as a starting point for the Choreographing the City work. hooks, b. (1994). Teaching to transgress: education as the practice of freedom. New York ; London: Routledge. Ellie references during the discussion. Latour, Bruno, Weibel, Peter (2020). Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press Gediminas references during the conversation. Other info: Date of conversation September 14th2020 Key words: discovery, togetherness, bridges, power over / power to limitations, choreographing the city, engineering, Sympoiesis (making-with)

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This podcast is the result of the morning conversation series held in the Choreographing the City class, offered by MIT's Art, Culture and Technology program in partnership with Theatrum Mundi, prof. Richard Sennett, taught by Prof. Gediminas Urbonas, and MIT CAST visiting artist and choreographer Dr Adesola Akinleye. The Choreographing The City class looks at emerging lexicons (for movement in urban space) that connect to ideas shared across dance-making (choreography), to building/city-making (community).

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