Architecture creates the spaces in which we live, work, meet and move. But the ways we navigate them need not be limited to established patterns and predictable routines. Space can also be explored more playfully, boldly, even through dance. The workshop invited students to set aside conventional ideas about how space should be used and, instead of approaching it through plans, measurements and floor plans, experience it through their own movement.
Tina introduced us to the movement language of Rudolf Laban, one of the pioneers of modern dance and movement research. Particular attention was given to Laban’s cube, a geometric model used to explore the directions and possibilities of bodily movement in three-dimensional space. Here, the cube is not merely a boundary but also a starting point for exploration: how far can we reach, what paths can the body take, and what happens when we begin to perceive the space around us as a field of movement possibilities?
The workshop was organised in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Ljubljana, as part of a seminar led by Gašper Medvešek. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, we aim to create opportunities for different creative practices and ways of thinking to meet. After all, dance and architecture have much in common: both engage with the body in space, though one shapes its relationship to space primarily through movement, while the other does so through the built environment.
