In this workshop, participants will be guided through a number of exercises to explore dwelling. Using our five senses, our bodies and the space that we move in and through -in this case, Gordon Square – we will reflect on and document what it means to dwell. After two hours in the Square, we will move inside to discuss and exchange our experiences, thoughts, memories and feelings about the exercises: did they facilitate a sense of dwelling? Did we arrive at a better understanding of what dwelling is? Are we able to communicate, through the experience of the exercises, our sense of dwelling? And, ultimately, did the dwelling help us understand this place differently?

As the event entails walking and exercising in public space, please wear comfortable clothes and shoes. We will meet in front of the UCL Institute of Archaeology.

This workshop is part of a collaboration between the IAS online review Think Pieces and print journal Konesh and will be conducted by IOE Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Peter Browning; Think Pieces editor Marthe Lisson; IAS Postdoctoral Fellow Flora Sagers; and IAS Visiting Research Fellow and Konesh editor Saba Zavarei.

Workshop: What does it mean to dwell?