Follow the Dice: On playful walking, stretching and fermenting

Maruška Svašek, Professor of Anthropology, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Co-Director, Centre for Creative Ethnography (CFCE), Fellow of the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queens University, Belfast

This talk zooms in on workshops that were set up as games in Belfast, Delhi, Prayagraj, Tokyo and Hanoi. During the collaborative workshops, the player-participants picked cards with specific instructions and rolled a dice to determine their route. The main aim of the games was to explore the environment through sensorial tasks and creative methods while turning left or right at crossing or junctions.  Metaphors of ‘playing’, ‘stretching’, and ‘fermenting’ will be used to delve deeper into the epistemological and ontological dimensions of the activities-in-motion and explore how different modes of making and pedestrian movement shaped the production of embodied knowledge.

Maruška Svašek is an anthropologist, painter, poet, and keen walker, based at…