Movement creation, Strategies and tactics!

For this week, we had Chapter 3: ‘Making Do’ of Michel de Certeau’s 'The Practice of Everyday Life’ (De Certeau, 1984, pp. 29–42). In The Practice of Everyday Life, the third chapter explores the dynamics of everyday resistance by examining how individuals appropriate and reinterpret cultural and social norms. Certeau’s structures the role of tactics as a means for the weak to navigate spaces defined by the powerful. They analyze the strategies people employ to regain a sense of agency, and show that even the seemingly trivial can be powerful against dominant systems. This chapter challenges readers to rethink power dynamics and recognize the transformative potential inherent in the everyday activities of ordinary people. he also distinguishes tactics and strategies. For strategies, Programs are usually associated with those in positions of power or institutions, which include things that are planned and calculated to achieve specific goals. Tactics, on the other hand, are the actions of individuals or groups with less power, orienting and adapting to existing structures. Tactics are more spontaneous, opportunistic, and involve creative use of available resources. Certeau examines how tactics represent a form of normative resistance that is more likely to assert agency through strategic mastery.

For this task, we had to create a movement According to our words from de Certeau's text, we chose a location wrote our words on a piece of paper and then, started planning the movements, my verbs were to restrict, to admire and to testify and I mostly focused on 'to restrict' and 'to admire' and tried to play them while making movements in the space. The provied drawing is based on our movements and verbs. 




This video was filmed from a different perspective and shows our final movements in which we changed the layout of the furniture and mentioned our interferences which were caused by connecting our verbs.  


In this session also had closed-eye drawing practice in which we analyezed our stadio first for two minutes and then, we started to capture it on a paper ( icluding our feelings! ) with closed eyes. 












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