Tomie Hahn
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780252044168
- eISBN:
- 9780252053108
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252044168.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Health, Illness, and Medicine
Arousing Sense spotlights the senses and embodied knowledge for exploring the realm of creativity, experimentation, and knowledge making. The book is a collection of practiced-based explorations to ...
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Arousing Sense spotlights the senses and embodied knowledge for exploring the realm of creativity, experimentation, and knowledge making. The book is a collection of practiced-based explorations to arouse the senses, to “make sense” of how sensory experiences help to orient the body and self with others. No specialization needed! The purpose of the exercises is to stimulate creative activity by engaging with the senses, heighten sensory awareness, and deepen one’s understanding of what it is to be human. The exercises support workshop leaders and solo practitioners with straightforward instructions in cookbook recipe format, sometimes served with playfulness, performative drama, seriousness, or mystery to engage deeper, potentially sensitive issues. Heightening sensory awareness supports empathy and encourages compassion. Shifting one’s sensory point of view, communicating clearly, embracing open-mindedness, shedding assumptions, and inviting empathy and vulnerability into the explorations can enable revelations that what one experiences personally may not be the same as what others experience. The senses, as vehicles of transmission, serve as a means for understanding who we are in an embodied and situated sensibility. The recipes that can be delivered easily online are noted with an asterisk in the table of contents “Menu.”Less
Arousing Sense spotlights the senses and embodied knowledge for exploring the realm of creativity, experimentation, and knowledge making. The book is a collection of practiced-based explorations to arouse the senses, to “make sense” of how sensory experiences help to orient the body and self with others. No specialization needed! The purpose of the exercises is to stimulate creative activity by engaging with the senses, heighten sensory awareness, and deepen one’s understanding of what it is to be human. The exercises support workshop leaders and solo practitioners with straightforward instructions in cookbook recipe format, sometimes served with playfulness, performative drama, seriousness, or mystery to engage deeper, potentially sensitive issues. Heightening sensory awareness supports empathy and encourages compassion. Shifting one’s sensory point of view, communicating clearly, embracing open-mindedness, shedding assumptions, and inviting empathy and vulnerability into the explorations can enable revelations that what one experiences personally may not be the same as what others experience. The senses, as vehicles of transmission, serve as a means for understanding who we are in an embodied and situated sensibility. The recipes that can be delivered easily online are noted with an asterisk in the table of contents “Menu.”
