Thinking Spaces

Thinking Spaces, the Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series, considers the ways in which improvisation can provide us with new ways of thinking and acting.

Improvisational exercises have been a key element of theatre training for decades. With minor modification, these same exercises can be used in training scientists (and future scientists) to be better communicators. I’ll discuss my use of improv with our physics majors at U of G and give some examples of the science-y twists we throw on the activities to suit our purposes.

Thinking Spaces: The Reading Group and Speaker Series is pleased to present “Why Music Festivals Now?: Ellen Waterman and Ajay Heble In Conversation.” The event will take place on Thursday,…

Thinking Spaces: The Reading Group and Speaker Series is pleased to present “Untitled or how free is free anyway?  Unpacking the ceteris paribus clauses in free improvisation,”  a talk by…

You’re invited to join us for the inaugural Thinking Spaces presentation for the 2022 series at 10am (EST) on Friday, Feb. 25th via Zoom with guest speaker Catharine Cary! This presentation, entitled “The Upside Down Protocol,”…

Thinking Spaces: The Reading Group and Speaker Series is pleased to present “ Living Ball of Fire: Peter Brötzmann, Black Experimentalism, and Politics in 1960s West Germany,” a virtual talk by…

IICSI and Sociable Cities present a virtual Thinking Spaces with George Lipsitz, Insubordinate Spaces: Why Improvisation and Accompaniment Matter Now, Friday, Oct. 23.

James Wood will discuss Plastic Time, relating to a practice he calls Optimistic Criticism – a method of rhythmic and temporal analysis and notation that incorporates artistic research and a questioning of institutional biases of justification

Thinking Spaces: The Improvisation Reading Group & Speaker Series Presents: Improvising Bodies: Sounding Creative Critical practices in Education with Lisa Sandlos, Jashen Edwards and Carey West.

SOFAM faculty member Jim Harley presents on the efforts of internal refugees affected by the years-long conflict in Northern Uganda who have formed an association for traditional music and dance, which has become an important part of their trauma recovery.