Our founder, Marcella Zoccoli, was honoured to be invited to contribute to the Crafting Pedagogies of Togetherness Residency Project, organized with the support of Erasmus+ and funded by the European Union. The residency brought together an impressive and diverse group of international contributors from Europe and beyond for an immersive five-day program at the prestigious @ Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland, in November 2025.
During this time, participants engaged in reflection and collective sense-making to explore ways to foster connections, particularly with young people, to strengthen social bonds amidst global challenges. The residency featured an in-depth exploration of Social Presencing Theater (SPT), Social Arts, and Radical Creativity. Participants experienced concepts such as presence, embodied leadership, and collective courage, engaging in an awareness-based exchange of giving and taking, allowing them to learn together as humans.
The Crafting Pedagogies of Togetherness Residency is a welcoming, playful and open co-creative space for testing awareness-based embodied practices, i.e. social arts-based methods that support attentiveness to the body and its experiences as a way of knowing and embrace learning as a holistic and felt act. The Studio-based Residency investigates an emergent curriculum on togetherness which could be applied in the contexts of formal or informal education, in schools, universities or communities. The curriculum combines Awareness-based Design and Social Presencing Theater and includes three pedagogical pillars: (I) Being Together, (II) the Aesthetics of Togetherness and (III) Relational Creativity. (sourced from: https://studioatelierista.org/paris-2#residency-paris-2025)
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