In the workshop, the multidisciplinary artist-researcher group Those Who Become Placed (in Finnish: Paikantujat) shares practice through participatory observation and movement exercises that utilize multisensorial thinking. Through sensitivity there emerges multispecies knowledge on how the space is, how I am and how others are in the space. The exercises are carried out independently, as well as in pairs and small groups. In the end we leave time for joint discussion.
We will work outside in different parts of the selected area. Please wear weather-appropriate clothing and shoes.
The workshop is aimed at dance and performing arts professionals and students who are interested in the urban spaces in transition.
Workshop date: Thursday the 19th of March 2026 1 pm – 4 pm
Meeting point: Close to Refshaleøen, the exact place is informed by email on Monday the 16th of March. We propose arriving by bike, we will move 5 min trip to the discussion place after the workshop.
Registration: paikantujat@gmail.com . The workshop is free for the participants.
Workshop is organised in collaboration with DASPA, Danish National School of Performing Arts.
More information about the project and the working group
Those Who Become Placed develop a joint practice of architectural research and activistic dance. We are interested in how embodied movement can help people to be present in urban transformation.
We are working with a project where we develop movement methods related to embodied care, in Hiedanranta area in Tampere, Finland, in the area that is undergoing a dramatic scale of change. We want to help people working in and visiting the area to live as part of the transition. Through physical activity, we practice creating a relationship with places and through this, we develop our agency in the space. The workshops we organise in that area enable also encounters between people working in and those interested in the area. The interdisciplinary project focuses on comprehensively studying the Hiedanranta area in transition. In the field trip in Copenhagen we want to deepen our knowledge by comparing our findings with international colleagues to develop our practice.
The working group consists of architect-researcher Elina Alatalo, dance artists Hanna Kahrola and Tuuti Touhunen, artistic mentor Jaakko Simola and documenter Mia Tiihonen.
The project has been funded by Finnish Cultural Foundation, University of Tampere, City of Tampere and the European Union and implemented by the Goethe-Institut.
Instagram: @paikantujat
This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.
Photo: Mia Tiihonen