constructing Agency workshop — [makeshift][johannroy]

CONTEXT

An exploration into how self-agency can be facilitated through assigning new roles onto existing objects.

Agency has been a recurring theme derived from my research—in my experience and the people around me, it is very easy to slip out and forget the significance our individual lives have on both the world and society.

As many complain about our daily lives while taking no initiative to change—not due to laziness as the primary reason, while it very well could be, but maybe due to a lack of awareness that one actually has the power to affect ones surroundings.
More than a lack of initiative, it is more a lack of realsing that your initiative holds value.

I wish for these workshops and exercises to allow people to revisit their ability to take claim over their daily lives.

SKILLS/PROCESS

workshop planning

RESOURCE

Robert Morris: Bodyspacemotionthings

Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination & Optimize Effort | Huberman Lab Podcast

https://www.hiphopdancealmanac.com/ink-cypher-implications-of-hiphopizing

https://www.academia.edu/60839226/_W_Rapped_Space_The_Architecture_of_Hip_Hop?email_work_card=view-paper

https://michaelberrymusic.com/blog/2023/11/9/place-and-space-engaging-with-local-hip-hoprap-practice-and-pedagogy

[projects that both inspired and aided in understanding and executing this project]
[projects that both informed and aided in executing this project]

:HOW ENGAGEMENT WITH ACTIVITIES AFFECT ONES SELF-AGENCY

A workshop conducted, as a form of primary research collection, for the research question of ”how can engaging with activities affect self-agency”.

the workshop was informed from research into how dopamine was secreted when engaging with activities; mainly the repercussions to the dopamine regulation and secretion systems when engaging with multiple activities at once.

the two key guides of the workshop were:

engaging with a sole activity with no overlap of activities
assigning roles onto already existing objects.

participants were provided a table filled with both—objects that already had uses and objects that had no specific use. They were then asked to make any variation[even hypothetical] of the three items:incense holder, lamp and seating.

the objects were documented and formed into a publication—an exercise book that aids people in
taking agency to create their own versions of objects. [click for publication]

Objects made by the participants

[INCENSE]

[LAMP]

[SEATING]

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