WORKSHOP PURPOSE
- To heighten your sensory experience of the physical and emotional aspects of the city, and reveal what’s really there.
- To develop a relationship with the neighborhood that surrounds you.
- To connect people together within a one block radius area of your neighborhood.
- To use photography as a form of interaction with and communication about a place.
- To interact with daily technology [your smartphone] in another way; to more physically engage with your surroundings.
OUTCOMES
- Deepen your relationship to your surrounding neighborhood. This leads to a deeper understanding of your city, and civic engagement is fostered. The more a place is experienced, the more people care about it.
- Sharpen your photography skills in relation to taking photos of places.
- Cultivate team building, as workshops are designed to create meaningful interactions between participants.
- Boost productivity, as it’s been proven that productivity increases when people take breaks from their computers and go outside.
PROCESS
Participants receive an individual invitation [psychogeographic ‘directions’] via text, to shift their consciousness in relation to place. An example is: “Take 3 photographs where differences meet”. Participants are invited to roam within a radial area and take three photos that respond to their prompt. There will also be interactive elements between participants. The group then meets back at the meeting point to share their photos, and will then send them to senseofplace LAB to form a ‘sense of place’ map of the area.
GROUP INFO
This project can be adapted for any type/age of group to participate in. All workshops are individually tailored to each group. A group consists of 3 minimum and 15 maximum people.
LOCATION
This workshop meets at a location you decide upon and focuses on the surrounding 1 block radius of the meeting point.
PRICE
The fee is based on the amount of people in each group, and if the group is a profit or non-profit. Please click the button below to get a quote.
FACILITATOR
Laurie Halsey Brown is the Director of senseofplace LAB. She is an award-winning interdisciplinary and community-oriented artist that has created projects and exhibited internationally. She also has many years of teaching and education administration experience. After receiving her MFA from Cal Arts, she taught as a museum educator in many NYC museums, including the Guggenheim and the Whitney Museum of Art for several years. She then worked as the Education Director at several arts spaces including Art in General and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts, followed by a position as the Media Education Coordinator for the New Museum of Contemporary Art. She was a faculty member of the New School University, NYC from 1999 to 2012, where she designed and taught an online course titled ‘Interdisciplinary Media and Contemporary Society. Since moving to San Francisco, she has designed and taught several photo-based workshops through SkillShare, and was the Program Director for Art With Elders in 2012.