Lifeworlds : interactive workshops for discovering how non-human beings experience their worlds
department or school: Creative and Critical Studies, Faculty of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Furman, Anne
issued: 2024-11-29T19:26:31Z
issued: 2024
related degree: Master of Fine Arts - MFA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Lifeworlds is a series of three workshops/dialogical art pieces that explores how performance can be used as intervention in family-based environmental education. Each of the three workshops (“Listening with Bats,” “Passing Time with Trees,” and “Breathing with Sturgeon”) uses a combination of narrative, dialogue, and physical activity to create opportunities for participants to imagine the embodied experiences of another being (respectively bats, trees, and sturgeon) in their daily lives. The workshop outlines for Lifeworlds are designed to be adapted for a variety of geographic locations and easily replicated by educators with little or no performance training background. The methodologies of conversation and imagination used to develop Lifeworlds come from the spheres of both applied theatre and environmental education pedagogy, as informed by my dual experiences in these fields. From the realm of applied theatre, I draw heavily on the framing and participant engagement methods of dialogical art as explained by Grant Kester, while from the realm of environmental education, I draw on Abigail Housen’s Visual Thinking Strategies and the multispecies ways of experiencing influenced by Jakob von Uexküll’s concept of umwelt. Lifeworlds provides one possible pathway for knitting these two fields together through experiential, site-specific play and dialogue. Lifeworlds asks how performance-based methodologies can be applied to environmental education facilitation such that this workshop structure will invite future facilitators and participants to ask how imagining other beings’ ways of experiencing their environment can help us humans in creating healthier multispecies spaces.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/89750
note: LIFEWORLDS: INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS FOR DISCOVERING HOW NON-HUMAN BEINGS EXPERIENCE THEIR WORLDS by Anne Furman B.A., Dartmouth College, 2019 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF FINE ARTS in THE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Interdisciplinary Studies) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) November 2024 © Anne Furman, 2024 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a thesis entitled: Lifeworlds: Interactive Workshops for Discovering How Non-Human Beings Experience Their Worlds submitted by Anne Furman in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Fine Arts . Denise Kenney, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Co-Supervisor Greg Garrard, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Co-Supervisor Jodey Castricano, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Supervisory Committee Member Astrida Neimanis, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Supervisory Committee Member George Grinnell, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies University Examiner iii Abstract Lifeworlds is a series of three workshops/dialogical art pieces that explores how performance can be used as intervention in family-based environmental education. Each of the three workshops (“Listening with Bats,” “Passing Time with Trees,” and “Breathing with Sturgeon”) uses a combination of narrative, dialogue, and physical activity to create opportunities for participants to imagine the embodied experiences of another being (respectively bats, trees, and sturgeon) in their daily lives. The workshop outlines for Lifeworlds are designed to be adapted for a variety of geographic locations and easily replicated by educators with little or no performance training background. The methodologies of conversation and imagination used to develop Lifeworlds come from the spheres of both applied theatre and environmental education pedagogy, as informed…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2025-02
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0447384
language: eng
degree discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Kenney, Denise
contributor: Garrard, Greg
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89750