In Place
Led by Rebecca Hilton, Professor in Choreography for the profile area Site-Event-Encounter (SKH) in collaboration with design researcher Felicia Nilsson (Oslo School of Architecture and Design), På Plats takes place in environments where diverse communities of people embody, experience and perform essential, epic, continual and continuous choreographies of care. Here, each and every interaction is a complex synthesis of the experiential (involving or based on experience), the somatic (relating directly to the body), the haptic (relating to the spatial perception and manipulation of objects) the sensational (physical perceptions resulting from something that happens to or comes into contact with the body) and the choreographic (the organisation of people and/or things in relation to time and space). In a care context ethics are continually being made and remade in relation to the vulnerabilities, sensibilities, needs, and desires of those particular people in that particular place at that particular time, and so the roles, responsibilities and concerns of the situated research group need to constantly reconfigure, reconstitute and reform.
