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Local Alternatives
re-imagining urban histories and futures with children and young people
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sensing affect
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affect changes how we feel
and what we can do
we begin in relation
we begin in events
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how we sense, feel, and think the world
on the surface of our skin
activating potentials
alternative forms of life
most of what we experience
can't be seen, named, or spoken
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drawing with biosensors
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tapping into the sympathetic nervous system
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the body as a medium
surfing waves of intensity
a lexicon of unnamable feelings
longer than any dictionary
sensible but imperceptible forces
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sometimes our signals tend towards synchrony
depending on the dance of co-attunement
bodies drift in and out of resonance
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affect circulates across distances
like the connection between ET and Elliot
or when you look at the moon
it's felt here and felt there
the missing half second
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the feeling of the future and the past in the present
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new constellations of value
a feeling that matters
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llatencies and potencies
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atmospheres and architectures of feeling
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learning to be affected
more and less
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collaborators
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David Rousell (Biosocial Lab, MMU)
Liz de Freitas (Biosocial Lab, MMU)
Suzanne Smith (Z-arts)
Z-artists (age 11-14)
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