Swarming Senses – Stadt in Resonanz neu erfahren

The central focus of the project is the practice of beginner's mind (a fresh perspective on familiar things), the development of resonance, and the strengthening of practical imagination in a collaborative, experience-oriented learning setting in public space.

Based on professional methods from the accompaniment of transformation processes – which are not otherwise generally accessible – combined with perception and creative techniques, we explore and enliven our relationship with ourselves and with urban space.

The goals are: strengthening self-efficacy, perception and imagination, promoting sustainable creative impulses, discovering individual strengths, building trusting relationships, peer learning and empowerment through visibility and self-representation. The 6–9 workshop leaders contribute different concepts and methods, which are linked by a uniform framework. Each workshop ends with a moderated reflection session in which experiences are shared and explored together. This ‘harvest’ is documented as an interactive map on the project website – a sensory and creative representation of urban space in which every participant is also a co-creator.

Judith Ritter-Davis works as an organisational developer in the socio-cultural field with a focus on strategic future visioning. The project is being developed co-creatively with Gudrun Schnitzer & Rolf Birkholz (facilitation, coaching) and is being implemented in collaboration with Kunst- und Bewegungslabor e.V.