Have you ever wondered how an octopus senses its environment, how plants communicate, or how non-human lifeforms make sense of the world they live in? Have you ever asked yourself what is your own place in the complexity of our ecosystem, and how you co-exist with other beings? The School of Unlived Worlds offers a multisensorial “training” about our relations to nature. If you are an educator, ecologist, artist, interested person or nature lover otherwise, this embodied philosophical adventure is for you!
WORKSHOPS
Mid-August, PLACCC offers two different kinds of workshop with the School of Unlived Worlds. During these days we will go for an expedition in the forests around Budapest and get to know the methods of the School. We will enter the landscape in experimenting and playful ways, to break with our usual modes of looking and thinking.
The starting point of “training” is that human perception is actually a learned ability and skill that determines everything what we consider as our natural environment in a way that is believed to be unchangeable. The school aims to lead us to the realization that our learned perception can be expanded, modified, refined, thus, it can reveal (sometimes unexpected) factors that play a role in what you see as your natural environment.
HOW?
The school will direct your attention to the various blindspots in your understanding of and relation to your environment and other lifeforms, and offer methods and practices on how to organise your senses in a different way and connect with nature otherwise.
The workshops consist three parts. Together, we will read and share texts of philosophers, biologists, psychologists, indigenous thinkers. We will also design and decide on exploratory tasks together inspired by our surroundings, amd deepened by the read literature. You could find yourself on all fours on the moss, turning slowly around your axis, or embodying other forest creatures, encountering the world from their perspectives. We wrap the experiences up with intuitive writing, we endeavour to capture our experiences and share our newly found stories with each other, unfolding unlived layers of our world.
WHO?
The School of Unlived Worlds is a project by Dutch artists Marie Groothof and Emke Idema.
Over the past twelve years Emke Idema worked on a body of interactive (theatre) works, often in the form of big games to be played by the audience. Her interactive performances have in common that they all question how to relate to the Other, and to our dominant social, political and narrative structures. She teaches at the theatre academy in Maastricht and at DAS Theatre in Amsterdam.
Marie Groothof has trained as a writer and, actress/theatre maker specialized in (Dutch) mime. Together with her collective Schwalbe she proposed some radical physical actions. Their last gesture resulted in a deconstruction and reconstruction of both the functioning of their own company and the theatres they visited. She teaches at the mime department of the theatre academy in Amsterdam.
They design and facilitate the workshops together with Hungarian collaborators: Éva Bubla, Napsugár Trömböczky and Dorottya Biró.
WHAT?
You can join to two different kinds of workshop:
– Three-day workshop: for people who want to get to the heart of the practice. If you want to understand the ways of working or share the methods afterwards with friends, students or clients, this one is recommended.
The three-day workshop is held in English.
– Introductory workshops: for people who just want to get a taste. This one takes only a couple of hours.
The Introductory workshops can be followed in English and in Hungarian.
WHEN AND WHERE?
– Three-day workshop: 14th-16th August 2025, from 11am till 4pm daily
We recommend you to participate all the three days.
Meeting time: 10am
Meeting point: Széll Kálmán tér (pontosítani!), from where we travel together to the location of the workshop by minibus.
– Introductory workshop: 18th and 19th August 2025, from 5pm till 7pm
Meeting point: in front of Fenyőgyöngye Restaurant, 1025 Budapest, Szépvölgyi út 155.
COSTS
– Three-day workshop:
normal ticket: 22.000 Ft
discount ticket (students, pensioners, pedagogues): 14.000 Ft
supporters ticket: 35.000 Ft
The tickets contain the local transport to the location of the workshop, a light lunch on each days, coffee, tea, snacks during the workshop days.
If you have any difficulties to pay the ticket, but you are really interested in participating, please contact the organisers at placcc.organiser@gmail.com and we try to find a solution.
On the other hand, if you are in the situation to pay more for the workshop, please support others who might not be able to participate due to financial difficulties.
– Introductory workshop:
normal ticket: 3.500 Ft
discount ticket (students, pensioners, pedagogues): 2.500 Ft
supporters ticket: 6.000 Ft
TICKET PURCHASE
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CONTACT
In case of any question, please contact us at placcc.organiser@gmail.com
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