FM INTENSIVE | THE QUEST FOR BETTER COMMUNICATION
7 - 12 August 2023

What do biological systems like human beings need to do
in order to stay alive, thrive and enjoy their lives?

We need to be in a constantly adapting, ever evolving, reciprocal dialogue with our environment.
Through this dialogue we remind ourselves who we are,
and refine how we move towards and with the world,
with openness and creative variability.

Furthermore, the way we touch the world
is the way we understand the world.
The way we move our eyes, hands, arms, and the entire body
affects our perception and mapping of the world.

How do we create maps that are under creative construction?
And how does this process of ongoing revision shape our world?
We sculpt the world and the world sculpts us in return.

Dynamic dialogue with the environment, with particular interest
paid to the role of touch, and how they nest within
the universal Quest for Better Communication
will be the central themes for Intensive 2023.

Such an inquiry requires a practice where we test, explore
and widen our communication repertoire.
Using FM metacognitive and practical tools
(Zero Forms and Movement Situations)
we will hone our ability to find flexible strategies
for learning, planning and facing uncertainty.

Why?
Because we have desires and dreams
and we must find ways to accomplish them.
And because that is not easy,
we need to know what to do
when we do not know what to do.

Lucia Seminara, obtained a PhD in Physics of the Nanostructures at the Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

Since 2009 she is carrying out research activity in CosmicLab,
at the Department of Naval, Electrical, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering (DITEN)
of the University of Genoa.

She is an Associate Professor and her research focuses on developing electronic systems to artificially restore
the sense of touch (e-skin).

Her competences are mainly located at the intersection between materials and electronics, towards the development of innovative sensing / actuating devices in the domain of flexible / stretchable electronics and wearable haptic interfaces.

She is coordinating the consortium TACTA (www.tacta.it), involving 20 researchers from 6 different Italian universities for combined artistic-scientific research on topics related to touch, Artificial Intelligence and human-machine interaction.

Anka Sedlačková is a performing artist, teaching in AMDA University in Slovakia.

She has been studying BMC® since 2000 and graduated as an Infant Development Movement Educator (2006), BMC® Practitioner (2013) and BMC® Teacher (2019).

Anka will share with us more about the embodiment of embryonic processes through movement exploration and movement forms.
Focusing on :
1. dynamics of polarities through process of conception, formation of embryonic disk (front and back body)
2. spacial orientation in embryonic process – bilateral relationships
3. expansion and condensation – a basic pattern of internal
and external movement
4. creation of axial structures of the body
5. relationship between center and periphery in embryonic process