MAPPING RHYTHM mini-mentoring workshop
You want to actively pursue your projects and spatial values by turning your everyday life into a creative playground.
The art in which we compose our everyday life and it's rhythms, the choices we make on a daily basis, are a significant part of locating our authentic personality within a context. More often than not, we have been conditioned to think of the everyday as routine, as something repetitive and usually full of boredom and disappointment, where the achievements of a more meaningful time are placed, well, somewhere in the future. We carry on with our daily lives, often in survival mode, placing our hopes not in the everyday but in - another day. Due to various circumstances, from a very young age, we begin to learn to surrender our power, we forget to extract the fertile landscape of possibilities for production, creativity and activism seeded in the everyday.
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You want to actively pursue your projects and spatial values by turning your everyday life into a creative playground.
You want to live in a more sustainable way.
You want to become an activist for what you are passionate about and engage in practices and environments that feel like an ecosystem. A place where your artistic, spatial and design aspirations can flow.
Let us reflect together on the patterns of your everyday life that often leave you:
unmotivated
overwhelmed
feeling stuck
exhausted
in a “flight or fight” mode.
Introducing Mapping Rhythm
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Introducing Mapping Rhythm 〰️
Mapping Rhythm is a mini-mentoring workshop through which we follow our everyday life patterns and rhythms and map out possibilities for activism to realise our creative projects within them. It also helps us to gain insight into understanding the physical, psychological, sensory and emotional states in the environments, practices and people in our daily lives.
The MAPPING RHYTHM mini-mentoring workshop is made up of 3 parts in which we will use the tools of visual mapping to sprinkle positive resistance, to transform or to add new practices to your creative projects.
As you emerge into mapping through drawing, collage or painting, you immerse yourself in practices to deepen the understanding of the relationships between your body, your environment and your practices. You will become more aware of the rhythms of your day to day life.
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3 parts
ATTENTIVNESS
MAPPING
VISION
ATTENTIVNESS
The first part is an online video lecture that will take place on 01/04/2024. A recording will be available if you are unable to attend at the scheduled time. At the end of the lecture, you will be given an assignment with instructions on how to create a visual map.
MAPPING
In the second part, you will take the time to create a mapping diary of 3 consecutive days of your daily life and of your daily rhythms.
VISION
In the third part, you will take part in a one-to-one mentoring session with me in which we will discuss your maps, your findings and your conclusions.
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The workshops is right for you when:
You would like to learn how to place-make values, truths and creative ideas in everyday life.
You have long neglected your creative fires. You find yourself hiding behind other responsibilities.
You would like to make choices that work as thresholds, to make space for diverse scenarios and identities in your environments and practices.
You are a curious person and you would like to try out something new.
You have been feeling stuck for some time. You are overwhelmed by current projects or are trying to start a new one.
You would like to transform to do lists to meaningful intentions.
You don't have a clue where to start. You have 10000 ideas.
You have been trying to figure things out on your own for a while, but now you need a helping hand.
In this mini-mentoring workshop we will begin to integrate mindful practices into everyday life. We will work on communicating personal beliefs and values into routines and schedules.
The workshop is particularly recommended for women architects, designers, entrepreneurs, writers, cultural workers, designers, artists, actors. Open to both students and professionals. Women usually have many more responsibilities in their daily lives and have to make more compromises when it comes to their personal and artistic projects and professions.
Everyday living is a landscape, a site, a playground full of potential.
Shape space with me.
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About your mentor in this workshop
Aleksandra Shekutkovska is an architect, urban designer, mentor and writer who is currently based in Bremen. Her projects have spanned a wide range of disciplines and she has worked in international universities and offices in North Macedonia, Brazil, Switzerland, Thailand and Germany.
Teaching at Thammasat University in Bangkok in the Urban Design and Development programme and as a lecturer at the TU Braunschweig, at the Institute for Sustainable Urbanism have been among her most valuable professional experiences. In Bangkok, she had the opportunity to develop the curriculum and to work as a co-lecturer and consultant in the following areas: Reading and Representing Places, Design Thinking, Urban Design (UD) Fundamentals, Theory and Concept in UD, Urban Intervention and Infill Development. Her work with innovative methodologies and communities, inspired her to conduct the research on “Flowscape Politics of Spatial Production”, focusing on Bangkok's Skytrain and its surrounding creative milieu, as part of the MAPS exhibition.
During her time at the Institute for Sustainable Architecture at the TU Braunschweig she has taught in various studios: Bachelor's, Master's, Thesis, and supervision of field trips, exhibitions and competitions. The diversity of urban life, especially the spatial disruptions and correlations between thresholds, the self-made and micro-geographies, became her main sources of inspiration and research for her PhD topic. Later, she decided to take a more practical approach through cataloging, collecting and mapping situations looking at strange spatial appropriations and their backgrounds.
After graduating from the Faculty of Architecture in Skopje and completing a Master of Advanced Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, her knowledge and experience have been broadened by real projects that address issues of urban design - disobedience of regulated space, especially spillovers of spatial meanings.
