Movement

Documenting the space through movements

Mirroring Architecture

Use the body as a mirror for the architecture

This has some similarities with Movemeasures, but it involves a bigger radius of personal space.

For me it is about finding corresponding body parts that can fit with parts of the space, but from a distance. It can be sitting or standing in one spot of the space, finding that the top of the window frame is exactly the length of your lower arm when you hold it up horizontally at the furthest distance from your gaze. 

Restless? Try while in movement through the space!

Try to memorize these movements and do them in a different (part of the) space. What do you see? Write the movements down to remember it and for another person to do them without them having seen the space or the movement.

Imprint

Use your body as a mold in contact with surfaces, corners or details of the space. Try standing, sitting, lying and being embraced by the architecture until you feel like it has made an imprint that you can bring with you in your bodily memory. Take a few steps away from the walls and re-visit the imprint without the presence of the surface.

( can be inspired by angles, sounds, size, usage of the space and more)

Write one of these imprints down with pen and paper so that another person can do it too, without them having seen the space or the movement.

Distance déjà-vu

Can the same distance between two people make a space re-appear?

This person is intended to do together with another person. You stand at opposite ends of the space and look at each other from this distance. If you don’t have a person available, use an object you can relate with. Try to memorize the distance between you through how far away the person or object is. It can be helpful to register the angle of your head and gaze and even measure with steps, just for backup.

Find another space and try to find the distance and positions you had before.
Will the two spaces merge in your mind?

movemeasures

Your body as a tool

People do this all the time, when there’s no measurement tool we use our body to find an estimate. This method takes it to the next level. It can be repeating a movement from one end of the space to the other, or between certain points in space. Some places it is more relevant to use a body part rather than a movement.
This way you can bring the space with you and re-space it without any other tools than your body.
The movements and postures might lead to a dance.

Naming

Make a space appear through words 

This method came in a moment of brainstorming in Copenhagen with Elisa Vassena merging with a memory of We To Be by Mette Edvardsen.

Walk the periphery of a space in a chosen pace. Stick to the pace and start naming what is on your left or right for every step you take. It can be handy to use a sound recorder to remember the order and number of names later. Repeat the words or play the recording of it in another space. Will the documented space appear?