This activity is based off of concepts from the book Dear Data by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec and a similar set of activities that I learned from Pamela Fellers and in her class Data Stories at Grinnell College in …

VISUAL TOUCH

Begin standing tall. Pick an object in the distance or across the room and stare at it intently. Feel the object with your eyes. What does it look like it, smell like? If you knocked it with your …

These past two weeks my research partner, Obuchi, and I have challenged ourselves one day a week to find places walking-distance away from our homes to do our dancing research*. Two times now, we have found ourselves agreeing to dance …

“Amid the myriad sounds that accompany our daily lives, we focus on only a few with any clarity—those that engage our attention. Yet we are affected by all the vibrations in the environment, whether we are conscious of them or …

Whimsy: “Whimsy is what a person who’s a dreamer and out of step with the real world might have lots of. People who are full of whimsy are odd, but often fanciful and lovely, like Harry Potter’s friend Luna Lovegood.…