Bodies of Difference

Type: Workshop

Year: 2018

Location: Copenhagen

DisOrdinary Architecture contributors: David Dixon, Jos Boys, Noemi Lakmaier and Raquel Meseguer

Supporter: Royal Academy of Design Copenhagen

Photo of four people at a skate park holding up a fifth person at an angle so they are holding their top half and their feet are flat on the steep ramp and they are at a nearly 90 degree angle.

This week-long workshop at the Royal Academy of Design Copenhagen asked all new Masters students to create an experience/situation to celebrate bodily differences; designing new relations between bodies and environments, by adapting and transforming immediate environments.

For The DisOrdinary Architecture Project, disabled artists Noemi Lakmaier, Raquel Meseguer and Dave Dixon, together with DisOrdinary Architecture Co-Founder Jos Boys, ran introductory workshops at the beginning of the week to open students up to different and embodied ways of exploring experiential relationships to built space, based on creatively playing with difference and diversity.

Gallery

Photo of two people playing string between two posts, one holding the string, one balancing on top.
Photo of four people holding a series of boxes, laughing while they hold the boxes.
Photo of a group of people moving around a space in different shapes and directions.
Photo of someone talking to a group of people, with a series of boxes and artworks in between the presenter and audience. The room and people are in an informal setting, some people sitting on chairs, some on the floor and some standing.
Photo of a group of people in a line, with pieces of card and paper on their back, onto which the next person in the line is about to draw an image.
Photo of a group of people playing with a piece of wood over the edge of a decking, exploring ideas of balance. One person is on the edge of the wood, whilst the others hold them and the wood.
Photo of someone lying on the floor, surrounded by some yellow stencilling on the floor.
Photo of someone drawing a sketchy line drawing on a long landscape piece of paper, attached to the wall.
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