Alternative tools and techniques in the pursuit of spatial justice

While the studios of at the Winter School provided deep engagement with themes of injustice across territories and histories, the skills workshops offered something different but equally essential: ways of doing. These short, experimental sessions created space to explore how we show up as designers, collaborators, and co-learners—not just what we design.

Rather than technical trainings, the workshops were invitations to move, speak, draw, perform, listen, and imagine in ways unfamiliar to many. They asked: What does it mean to know with your body? To speak through silence? To map a feeling? To gamify a power dynamic?

Workshops included:
Improvised movement and dance as tools for accessing embodied knowledge by Make Move Think

Political theatre exercises that rehearsed resistance and relational awareness by Theatre of the Oppressed

Storytelling and Memory through drawing and writing as methods for working with fragmented, contested histories by Sabina Tanovic

Urban Gaming through Game-making as a strategy to question spatial governance and spark collaboration by Bruno Stetola

Improvised Singing and Sonic Territories through vocal improvisation as a way of sensing space and relating collectively to land by Sipen Tekin

Critical Research through investigative and analytical methods by Juliana Goncalves