Embodied Critical Thinking: Thinking at the Edge

When? April 5-6 2019

Where? Háskólatorg, HT-300, University of Iceland

Registration is not required

Knowing is more than conceptual thinking and logical arguments. Feeling and lived experience is always in the background in reflective, creative and research processes. To foster creative and communal as well as independent and problem oriented thinking requires connecting with an experiential basis. But how do we deliberately draw upon and engage these felt meanings?

The research project Embodied Critical Thinking (ect.hi.is) invites researchers, teachers, students, and anyone interested in cultivating critical and creative thinking, to join us at this workshop. The workshop draws upon Eugene Gendlin’s philosophical technique of “Thinking at the Edge” which allow the embodied, experiential, and felt, backgrounds to develop and become explicit. Internationally leading transdisciplinary researchers will guide us through both the theory and the practice of embodied critical thinking.

The workshop sessions are open to the public.

Registration is not required.

ect.hi.is

 

Workshop Program

April 5 (Room H 300)

900-1000: Introduction into the research project Embodied Critical Thinking

Prof. Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir, University of Iceland

Prof. Björn Thorsteinsson, University of Iceland

Dr. Donata Schoeller, University of Koblenz, guest professor University of Iceland

1000-1130: Thinking at the Edge in Landscape Architecture and Ecology

Prof. Ram Eisenberg, Technion, Haifa

Dr. Yael Teff-Seker, Technion, Haifa

1130-1300: Thinking at the Edge as a Philosophical Process Practice

Dr. Guðbjörg Johannesdottir, University of Iceland

Dr. Evelyn Fendler-Lee, Chapel Hill

1300-1400: Lunch

1400-1600: Practice, guided by one of the TAE teachers

1600-1700: Sharing and Discussion

2000: Movie with Eugene Gendlin explaining TAE

 

April 6 (Room H 300, H 303, H 333)

900-1030: Thinking at the Edge in Psychology and in the Humanities

Prof. Joachim Feuerstein, Hochschule Kehl

Dr. Elena Loyd-Sidle, University of Chicago

1030-1300: Thinking at the Edge in Educational Studies and Innovation

Dr. Tony Hoffman, University of Würzburg

Monika Lindner, PhD candidate, University of Koblenz

Carina Trapl, MA-candidate, University of Vienna

2000: Introducing the Thinking-at-the-Edge Game

Dr. Evelyn Fendler-Lee and Dr. Tony Hofman