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The School of Unlived Worlds is a nomadic ‘school’ that pops up in the context of festivals, theatres, museums and organizations that are concerned with ecology. It offers a multisensorial training of multiple days. Central in these days is the working of our sensorial system, the stories that we make about the landscape and ourselves and the intimacies with the place. The core team of the School consists of interdisciplinary artists Emke Idema and Marie Groothof. The School collaborates with a growing group of (ex)participants.

What

One can see the participation in the School of Unlived Worlds as a mini retrait from normal live, a blind date with a landscape you know, a philosophical scouting and a fundamental training in piercing through your own images of human and world. By disrupting your typical ways of being, you can become open to more diverse and intimate observations of the world around. The playful, ritual actions let you connect in new ways with nature, both outside and inside of yourself. You could find yourself crawling on all fours through a forest, rotate around your axis in slow circles, follow an ant in the city or sing along with the meadow birds. Blind spots and lacunes in our narratives become visible and new words can surface.

The School of Unlived Worlds has a library of related and supportive practices and literature. Together, we read inspiring texts of philosophers, ecologists, artists and other practicioners that can deepen the actions. And we share related practices and techniques. We encountered ao expertises from wilderniss training, qi gong, meditation and creative writing. As a participant you are invited to share your expertise and contribute to the collection of the School. The School of Unlived Worlds collaborates with different partner organisations throughout Europe.

Ambition

The main aim of the School is to offer an insightful and inspiring experience for the participants, but by doing that, a poetic ‘knowledge bank’ comes into existance. By manifesting itself in different places, in different assemblies of experts, the School develops an archive about possible ways to relate to a place. The School wants to make these relations available for the future. 

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