Practices
This collection of practices is far from exhaustive and all-inclusive but provides a set of examples of a wide variety of approaches, strategies, tactics and methods that can be used to educate, collaborate with and activate publics, individuals and/or sites through various forms of performance, intervention and/or activism.
To aid students and teachers in navigating this page, we have distilled a list of key tools and some examples of practices where they are employed, which can be re-used and provide inspiration for the students’ own interventions. Please note that each practice uses more than a single tool from our categories; these categories are presented as mere departure points.
Tool Categories
Participation tools
Here you can find practices that employ tools for engaging audiences, for collaboration and co-creation, for embodying different perspectives, and for creating safe environments.
Teaching tools
Here you can find practices that employ tools aimed at putting theory into practice, or for exploring complex issues, doing research, learning new skills, organizing and documenting, and for critical reflection.
Dialogue tools
Here you can find practices aimed at initiating and facilitating conversations, listening and communicating, storytelling, discussing and negotiating.
Tactical tools
Here you can find practices that employ methods for subverting and intervening in situations, for protesting playfully, for disrupting the status quo and making strange.
Fieldwork tools
Here you can find practices that engage with a site and get to know it through moving, observing, walking, exploring and analyzing.
Materiality tools
Here you can find practices that use materials, such as costumes, objects, posters, to create attention and convey messages and meaning.