Through interdisciplinary workshops, the project invites participants to create “sensitive maps” that bring together memory, emotion, and artistic practice.
“Cartography(ies) of the Senses” proposes a pedagogical and artistic approach that understands the body as a territory of perception, memory, and sensory experience.
Anchored in an interdisciplinary perspective and contemporary artistic practice, the workshops conceive cartography not as a fixed representation of space, but as a dynamic, relational, and subjective process of constructing maps based on sensory experiences.
In this context, the senses (sight, touch, hearing, smell, and taste) help us to know and understand the world. Through them, participants create “sensitive maps,” where materials, memories, emotions, and imagination come together.
Artistic practice is used as a way to experiment and explore, combining the body, the environment, and different tools, both manual and digital, in a creative and contemporary way.
Programme
1. Cartographies of Transfer and Memory (Gelli Plate)
Room 1 Group 1 (8 participants)
Sensory focus: touch + sight
This workshop focuses on the technique of gelli plate printing and image transfer as a process of inscription and reconfiguration of visual memory. Through layers, textures, and traces, participants build compositions that function as fragmented cartographies of personal or collective experiences.
Objectives
- Explore experimental printing and image transfer processes
- Work with the idea of memory as layering and trace
- Develop visual compositions based on accumulation and transformation
Expected outcomes: Production of tactile visual maps, printed surfaces that reveal layers, erasures, and symbolic reconfigurations.
Materials: 4 gelli plate sheets (work in pairs/participants) + acrylic paint + heavyweight paper + old magazines
2. Organic Cartographies: Painting with Plant-Based Inks
Room 1 Group 2 (6 participants)
Sensory focus: smell + touch + sight
This workshop proposes the creation of inks from natural elements (plants, flowers, spices), promoting a direct relationship between body, matter, and territory. Colour is understood as the result of organic and temporal processes, emphasizing the instability and transformation of materials.
Objectives
- Investigate extraction and application processes of natural pigments
- Reflect on sustainability and materiality in artistic practice
- Develop a sensory and ecological approach to painting
Develop a sensory and ecological approach to painting
Expected outcomes: Creation of organic cartographies, compositions that integrate colour, texture, and aroma as sensory records of territory and experience.
Materials: Spices + coloured fruits/vegetables + watercolour paper
Caption: Plant-based and ecological inks
3. Cartographies of the Body in Motion
Room 2 – 1 group (4 participants)
Sensory focus: body (movement), hearing, and touch
This workshop explores the body as a drawing tool. To the sound of music, participants move across large sheets of paper placed on the floor, creating marks with charcoal (pencil and stick). Movement becomes drawing, recording the rhythm and energy of the body.
Objectives
- Explore drawing through body movement
- Relate music, rhythm, and gesture
- Experiment with charcoal (pencil and stick) as an expressive material
- Develop body awareness in space
Expected outcomes: Production of large-format drawings that record body movements, functioning as visual “maps” of action, rhythm, and individual expression.
Materials: large sheets of paper + charcoal sticks
