Arousing Sense: Recipes for Workshopping Sensory Experience

Tomie Hahn's workshopping recipes encourage incorporating sensory-rich experiences into research, creative processes, and understanding of people, leading to profound impacts on art making, research, ethnographic fieldwork, contemplation, and personal introspection.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 152 pages
Publication date: 26 October 2021
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Engaging with sensory experience offers a profound gateway to the contemplation and cultivation of creativity and ideas. Tomie Hahn's workshopping recipes encourage researchers, artists, and individuals to incorporate sensory-rich experiences into their research, creative processes, and understanding of others. Recognizing the transformative power of playfulness, these exercises facilitate a loosening of self while simultaneously enhancing empathy and vulnerability. By sparking sensory endeavors that delve into our deepest core, they hold the potential to impact art-making, research, ethnographic fieldwork, contemplation, philosophical or personal introspection, and a wide range of other activities. Designed with flexibility in mind, these living recipes provide an avenue for performative adventures that invite us to improvise in ways tailored to our unique purposes or settings.

Leaders and practitioners alike embrace an infinite array of arenas for utilizing the senses for explorations that span from personally transformative to professionally productive to profoundly moving. User-friendly and practical, Arousing Sense serves as a comprehensive guide to how teaching through sensory experience can lead to positive, transformative outcomes in the classroom and everyday life.

Weight: 288g
Dimension: 151 x 229 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780252086205