Walking Playfulicity and the Entangling of the Mind
We would like to invite everyone to reverberate between senseand nonsense through walking and getting lost together in the city, or a part ofthe city. Taking the inspiration from Frederic Gros’ argument that walking is athinking/inquiry method which allows us to experience “suspensive freedom”(Gros, 2014: 15)—a thinking space free from regularities and daily norms, thisworkshop aims to re-evaluate and re-maps the boundaries between sense andnonsense.The walk is also expected to activate the “wandering mindset” (Smith, 2016: 11)wherein a person enters “a complete immersion in the current situation, awillingness to be open to whatever comes up, whatever you find in front of you atthe moment.” To further facilitate the wandering and reverberation between senseand nonsense, several verbal quotes from literary texts related to the setting ofthe arena are used to stimulate the senses with overlapping logic and information,leading into the overload of spatial cognition (see Nikolajeva, 2024).Standing in and vibrating between sense and nonsense, the participants areexpected to map their entanglement and confusion using creative process, involvingspontaneous creation of artworks in nature and the use of mapping technology tofurther blur the boundaries between sense and nonsense, between analog anddigital, and between objective and subjective spatial understanding.