Inspired by improv theater, this workshop invited participants to co-produce and perform stories related to critical political and environmental issues. One of the workshop’s aims was to create the conditions for participants to get to know each other, namely by providing a safe space for them to playfully share and exchange knowledge, experiences and worldviews, and familiarize themselves with a collaborative storytelling process. Through 3 different performative exercises, the workshop aimed at triggering participants’ imagination and senses, encouraging them to observe their relation to the physical location and with each other. Another goal of the workshop was to bring to the forefront our different positionalities, our preconceptions and existing hierarchies that are at play when we collaborate and interact, but which usually remain implicit. Always in collaboration and at the same time spontaneously, with no time to prepare, therefore building on embodied and affective knowledge, participants were incited to reflect on politics of knowledge production, especially the entanglement of normative discourses and ideas with their own situated knowledge.
