FlourishCafe: Flourishing through 'doing’ Art (part of doing together 24)

FlourishCafe: ‘Flourishing through 'doing’ Art

Workshop with Eri Mountbatten O'Malley as part of doing together 24

Thursday 4 April 2024

What is the connection between ‘thinking about’ and ‘doing’ art together? And how do these connections relate to flourishing artists? In this workshop we’ll consider the nature of ‘doing’ art for flourishing.

During this session, we used a powerful approach that incorporates World Café methods (creative, artistic, connecting, sense-making activities), philosophical insights, and Group flow techniques, to explore questions and themes around thinking & doing, as well as personal/ professional growth, for flourishing. Participants worked in rounds of rich conversations to learn from one another.

FlourishCafe is a social enterprise aimed at supporting communities to develop their own insights into flourishing from a grassroots perspective.

doing together 24
doing together is a yearly two-day making and sharing practice symposium at Locksbrook Campus, hosted by the Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries in collaboration with Bath School of Art, Film and Media and Bath School of Music and Performing Arts.

Workshops, delivered by staff and postgraduate students from across the University, share practice-based research methods and a broad range of approaches to practice. doing together is proposed as a generous space to make/do/share and discuss practice with colleagues from a range of different Schools.

Throughout the symposium, facilitators – alongside participants – test out ways of doing together in an effort to make their practice-based research explicit, rather than simply describe it.