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	=== Workshop Matters and Materials ===		=== Workshop Matters and Materials ===
	<span class="author">In conversation with Gabriel Fontana</span>		<span class="author">In conversation with Gabriel Fontana</span>
	'''Anja Groten:''' ~~Gabrielm~~ you and H&D are frequent collaborators. For instance you initiated Multiform—a non-competitive queer sports game during the H&D summer academy in 2019.<ref>https://hackersanddesigners.nl/s/Summer_Academy_2019/p/Multiform_Queering_Sports_and_Conversation_with_Erin_Gatz</ref> In this game, players are invited to change teams during the games through transformable sport uniforms. By allowing people to perform fluid identities, the game opens up space for experimentation, play, and collective reflection that challenge fixed categories.		'''Anja Groten:''' Gabriel you and H&D are frequent collaborators. For instance you initiated Multiform—a non-competitive queer sports game during the H&D summer academy in 2019.<ref>https://hackersanddesigners.nl/s/Summer_Academy_2019/p/Multiform_Queering_Sports_and_Conversation_with_Erin_Gatz</ref> In this game, players are invited to change teams during the games through transformable sport uniforms. By allowing people to perform fluid identities, the game opens up space for experimentation, play, and collective reflection that challenge fixed categories.

	[[File:Queeringsports3.jpeg\|thumb\|Multiform, non-competitive game at HDSA2019 “Coded Bodies”]]		[[File:Queeringsports3.jpeg\|thumb\|Multiform, non-competitive game at HDSA2019 “Coded Bodies”]]

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	[[File:Timetable.jpg\|thumb\|class=title_image\|Page from Workshop manual "Gestures in Transit," Gabriel Fontana, Vivien Tauchmann, 2021]]		[[File:Timetable.jpg\|thumb\|class=title_image\|Page from Workshop manual "Gestures in Transit," Gabriel Fontana, Vivien Tauchmann, 2021]]
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	[[File:Timetable.jpg\|thumb]]		[[File:Timetable.jpg\|thumb\|Page from Workshop manual "Gestures in Transit," Gabriel Fontana, Vivien Tauchmann, 2021]]
	[[File:Transit-iteration1.jpg\|thumb]]		[[File:Transit-iteration1.jpg\|thumb\|Page from Workshop manual "Gestures in Transit," Gabriel Fontana, Vivien Tauchmann, 2021]]
	[[File:Transit-iteration2.jpg\|thumb]]		[[File:Transit-iteration2.jpg\|thumb\|Page from Workshop manual "Gestures in Transit," Gabriel Fontana, Vivien Tauchmann, 2021]]
	[[File:Manifestation.jpg\|thumb]]		[[File:Manifestation.jpg\|thumb]]
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Workshop Matters and Materials

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	'''AG:''' Let me know! I want to be part of that meeting!		'''AG:''' Let me know! I want to be part of that meeting!

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	<small>'''Gabriel Fontana''' is a social designer. He is the initiator of Multiform, a tool that challenges and examines ideas of identity, community, and inclusion by proposing games for sport classes at schools, generating an openness and empathy that later on filter into wider society. Through a queer framework, Fontana investigates how daily social practices reproduce conservative values and reinforce power structures. Within a phenomenological approach, he develops performative design research, positioning the body as the central perspective from which the social world is experienced, reproduced, and challenged. Fontana lives and works in Rotterdam.		<small>'''Gabriel Fontana''' is a social designer. He is the initiator of Multiform, a tool that challenges and examines ideas of identity, community, and inclusion by proposing games for sport classes at schools, generating an openness and empathy that later on filter into wider society. Through a queer framework, Fontana investigates how daily social practices reproduce conservative values and reinforce power structures. Within a phenomenological approach, he develops performative design research, positioning the body as the central perspective from which the social world is experienced, reproduced, and challenged. Fontana lives and works in Rotterdam.

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Workshop Matters and Materials

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	'''AG:''' Its function is to create a shared experience, a world within which the workshop takes place.		'''AG:''' Its function is to create a shared experience, a world within which the workshop takes place.

	'''GF:''' Definitely. And it can also ~~[[#A_case_of_mistaken_identity\|~~create excitement]] among participants. I always love the reaction when I bring the pile of manuals to the group. This makes them excited about the workshop and they see the value in it.		'''GF:''' Definitely. And it can also create excitement among participants. I always love the reaction when I bring the pile of manuals to the group. This makes them excited about the workshop and they see the value in it.

	'''AG:''' It is a beautiful gift you bring and also shows a commitment towards the time you share with the group of participants.		'''AG:''' It is a beautiful gift you bring and also shows a commitment towards the time you share with the group of participants.
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	'''GF:''' I also brought another workshop manual that we designed with Clara Balaguer and Sarafina Pauline Bonita for the QFPCSSBBXOXO (Queer and Feminist Physical and Critical Self-Defense and Support Bloc of Bodies) workshop we facilitated together at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, in 2019. This five-day training explored different techniques for channeling voices as a tool to deeply listen, share, and heal traumatic experiences related to patriarchal violence.		'''GF:''' I also brought another workshop manual that we designed with Clara Balaguer and Sarafina Pauline Bonita for the QFPCSSBBXOXO (Queer and Feminist Physical and Critical Self-Defense and Support Bloc of Bodies) workshop we facilitated together at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, in 2019. This five-day training explored different techniques for channeling voices as a tool to deeply listen, share, and heal traumatic experiences related to patriarchal violence.

	[[File:Tutorial-12.jpg\|thumb]]		[[File:Tutorial-12.jpg\|thumb\|Tutorial for QFPCSSBBXOXO (Queer and Feminist Physical and Critical Self-Defense and Support Bloc of Bodies), Clara Balaguer, Sarafina Pauline Bonita, Gabriel Fontana]]

	'''AG:''' I remember that you introduced some of these channeling techniques during your last performance and workshop at H&D summer academy in 2021. Could you tell more about how the method of channeling relates to the topic of self defense?		'''AG:''' I remember that you introduced some of these channeling techniques during your last performance and workshop at H&D summer academy in 2021. Could you tell more about how the method of channeling relates to the topic of self defense?

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	=== Workshop Matters and Materials ===		=== Workshop Matters and Materials ===
	<span class="author">A conversation with Gabriel Fontana</span>		<span class="author">In conversation with Gabriel Fontana</span>
	'''Anja Groten:''' Gabrielm you and H&D are frequent collaborators. For instance you initiated Multiform—a non-competitive queer sports game during the H&D summer academy in 2019.<ref>https://hackersanddesigners.nl/s/Summer_Academy_2019/p/Multiform_Queering_Sports_and_Conversation_with_Erin_Gatz</ref> In this game, players are invited to change teams during the games through transformable sport uniforms. By allowing people to perform fluid identities, the game opens up space for experimentation, play, and collective reflection that challenge fixed categories.		'''Anja Groten:''' Gabrielm you and H&D are frequent collaborators. For instance you initiated Multiform—a non-competitive queer sports game during the H&D summer academy in 2019.<ref>https://hackersanddesigners.nl/s/Summer_Academy_2019/p/Multiform_Queering_Sports_and_Conversation_with_Erin_Gatz</ref> In this game, players are invited to change teams during the games through transformable sport uniforms. By allowing people to perform fluid identities, the game opens up space for experimentation, play, and collective reflection that challenge fixed categories.

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	'''GF:''' Clara and I have this thing going on, where we swing new manuals to each other. We should really bring them together once and do something with them!		'''GF:''' Clara and I have this thing going on, where we swing new manuals to each other. We should really bring them together once and do something with them!

	'''AG:''' Let me know!  I want to be part of that meeting!		'''AG:''' Let me know! I want to be part of that meeting!

	<small>'''Gabriel Fontana''' is a social designer. He is the initiator of Multiform, a tool that challenges and examines ideas of identity, community, and inclusion by proposing games for sport classes at schools, generating an openness and empathy that later on filter into wider society. Through a queer framework, Fontana investigates how daily social practices reproduce conservative values and reinforce power structures. Within a phenomenological approach, he develops performative design research, positioning the body as the central perspective from which the social world is experienced, reproduced, and challenged. Fontana lives and works in Rotterdam.		<small>'''Gabriel Fontana''' is a social designer. He is the initiator of Multiform, a tool that challenges and examines ideas of identity, community, and inclusion by proposing games for sport classes at schools, generating an openness and empathy that later on filter into wider society. Through a queer framework, Fontana investigates how daily social practices reproduce conservative values and reinforce power structures. Within a phenomenological approach, he develops performative design research, positioning the body as the central perspective from which the social world is experienced, reproduced, and challenged. Fontana lives and works in Rotterdam.

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	'''AG:''' It's a workshop prompt by the design collective [[#A_case_of_mistaken_identity\|Åbäke]]. I've used this [[#Learning_to_Experiment,_Sharing_Techniques\|method]] several times before. I usually explain where it came from and why it was useful to me. It's a small gesture. Åbäke came as guest tutors to host a workshop at the design department of the Sandberg Instituut, where I studied between 2009 and 2011. They made us hijack each other's research projects for two days. That was it! The education at the time was rather focused on individual research trajectories. Every student was supposed to have their own research project that you work on for the duration of the two years. The way the course was structured was building on students self-organizing and working in a self-directed way. For me this approach was actually rather challenging. I was quite lost and I found it really hard to push my own agenda... because I'm very receptive to my environment, and I like to do things together. It was such a relief that I could just hand over my project to someone else and get someone else's project for two days. This small intermission gave us permission to step out for a moment. It really influenced a lot of people's trajectories. And I've used this method many times since.		'''AG:''' It's a workshop prompt by the design collective [[#A_case_of_mistaken_identity\|Åbäke]]. I've used this [[#Learning_to_Experiment,_Sharing_Techniques\|method]] several times before. I usually explain where it came from and why it was useful to me. It's a small gesture. Åbäke came as guest tutors to host a workshop at the design department of the Sandberg Instituut, where I studied between 2009 and 2011. They made us hijack each other's research projects for two days. That was it! The education at the time was rather focused on individual research trajectories. Every student was supposed to have their own research project that you work on for the duration of the two years. The way the course was structured was building on students self-organizing and working in a self-directed way. For me this approach was actually rather challenging. I was quite lost and I found it really hard to push my own agenda... because I'm very receptive to my environment, and I like to do things together. It was such a relief that I could just hand over my project to someone else and get someone else's project for two days. This small intermission gave us permission to step out for a moment. It really influenced a lot of people's trajectories. And I've used this method many times since.

	[[File:Abake-script.~~jpeg~~\|thumb\|“A Case of Mistaken Identity”, workshop assignment by Åbäke]]		[[File:Abake-script.jpg\|thumb\|“A Case of Mistaken Identity”, workshop assignment by Åbäke]]

	The Åbäke script is an interesting design object. These documents, workshop manuals, and how-tos also, in a way, have their own kind of graphic design rules. On the one hand they are well taken care of: they are concise and easy to reproduce with regular office supplies, which makes them also easy to rework, annotate, and appropriate.		The Åbäke script is an interesting design object. These documents, workshop manuals, and how-tos also, in a way, have their own kind of graphic design rules. On the one hand they are well taken care of: they are concise and easy to reproduce with regular office supplies, which makes them also easy to rework, annotate, and appropriate.

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	'''AG:''' It's a workshop prompt by the design collective [[#A_case_of_mistaken_identity\|Åbäke]]. I've used this [[#Learning_to_Experiment,_Sharing_Techniques\|method]] several times before. I usually explain where it came from and why it was useful to me. It's a small gesture. Åbäke came as guest tutors to host a workshop at the design department of the Sandberg Instituut, where I studied between 2009 and 2011. They made us hijack each other's research projects for two days. That was it! The education at the time was rather focused on individual research trajectories. Every student was supposed to have their own research project that you work on for the duration of the two years. The way the course was structured was building on students self-organizing and working in a self-directed way. For me this approach was actually rather challenging. I was quite lost and I found it really hard to push my own agenda... because I'm very receptive to my environment, and I like to do things together. It was such a relief that I could just hand over my project to someone else and get someone else's project for two days. This small intermission gave us permission to step out for a moment. It really influenced a lot of people's trajectories. And I've used this method many times since.		'''AG:''' It's a workshop prompt by the design collective [[#A_case_of_mistaken_identity\|Åbäke]]. I've used this [[#Learning_to_Experiment,_Sharing_Techniques\|method]] several times before. I usually explain where it came from and why it was useful to me. It's a small gesture. Åbäke came as guest tutors to host a workshop at the design department of the Sandberg Instituut, where I studied between 2009 and 2011. They made us hijack each other's research projects for two days. That was it! The education at the time was rather focused on individual research trajectories. Every student was supposed to have their own research project that you work on for the duration of the two years. The way the course was structured was building on students self-organizing and working in a self-directed way. For me this approach was actually rather challenging. I was quite lost and I found it really hard to push my own agenda... because I'm very receptive to my environment, and I like to do things together. It was such a relief that I could just hand over my project to someone else and get someone else's project for two days. This small intermission gave us permission to step out for a moment. It really influenced a lot of people's trajectories. And I've used this method many times since.

	[[File:Abake-script\|thumb\|“A Case of Mistaken Identity”, workshop assignment by Åbäke]]		[[File:Abake-script.jpeg\|thumb\|“A Case of Mistaken Identity”, workshop assignment by Åbäke]]

	The Åbäke script is an interesting design object. These documents, workshop manuals, and how-tos also, in a way, have their own kind of graphic design rules. On the one hand they are well taken care of: they are concise and easy to reproduce with regular office supplies, which makes them also easy to rework, annotate, and appropriate.		The Åbäke script is an interesting design object. These documents, workshop manuals, and how-tos also, in a way, have their own kind of graphic design rules. On the one hand they are well taken care of: they are concise and easy to reproduce with regular office supplies, which makes them also easy to rework, annotate, and appropriate.

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	=== Workshop Matters and Materials ===		=== Workshop Matters and Materials ===
	<span class="author">A conversation with Gabriel Fontana</span>		<span class="author">A conversation with Gabriel Fontana</span>
	'''Anja Groten:''' Gabrielm you and H&D are frequent collaborators. For instance you initiated Multiform—a non-competitive queer sports game during the H&D summer academy in 2019<ref>https://hackersanddesigners.nl/s/Summer_Academy_2019/p/Multiform_Queering_Sports_and_Conversation_with_Erin_Gatz</ref>. In this game, players are invited to change teams during the games through transformable sport uniforms. By allowing people to perform fluid identities, the game opens up space for experimentation, play, and collective reflection that challenge fixed categories.		'''Anja Groten:''' Gabrielm you and H&D are frequent collaborators. For instance you initiated Multiform—a non-competitive queer sports game during the H&D summer academy in 2019.<ref>https://hackersanddesigners.nl/s/Summer_Academy_2019/p/Multiform_Queering_Sports_and_Conversation_with_Erin_Gatz</ref> In this game, players are invited to change teams during the games through transformable sport uniforms. By allowing people to perform fluid identities, the game opens up space for experimentation, play, and collective reflection that challenge fixed categories.

	[[File:Queeringsports3.jpeg\|thumb\|Multiform, non-competitive game at HDSA2019 “Coded Bodies”]]		[[File:Queeringsports3.jpeg\|thumb\|Multiform, non-competitive game at HDSA2019 “Coded Bodies”]]
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	[[File:End2.jpeg\|thumb\|“Channeling Listening workshop”, HDSA2021]]		[[File:End2.jpeg\|thumb\|“Channeling Listening workshop”, HDSA2021]]

	'''AG:''' And there were a few other occasions our exchange continued. For instance, together with Vivien Tauchmann, you hosted a workshop about mobility and public space at the Design Department of the Sandberg Instituut where I work as an educator, and last year you hosted a [[#Channeling_Listeners\|channeling listening session]] on the last day of the H&D summer academy <ref>https://hackersanddesigners.nl/s/Summer_Academy_2021/p/HDSA2021_End_Program_with_Gabriel_Fontana_and_Aimee_Theriot-Ramos</ref>. The last time we talked was on the occasion of a [[#Scripting_Workshops\|workshop]] I hosted, which was addressing the workshops as such. One of the sessions was dealing with what I came to refer to as a “pedagogical document,” which is a kind of genre of graphic design, but also a genre of design pedagogy and collective practice. Pedagogical documents could be instruction manuals, how-tos, scores, workshop scripts, game plays. These are documents to learn from and with. They are documentation of ephemeral learning moments but also cater to future use. You read my invitation to this workshop and kindly offered to send me your repository of pedagogical documents. I was very curious about them and more specifically about how they relate to your practice?		'''AG:''' And there were a few other occasions our exchange continued. For instance, together with Vivien Tauchmann, you hosted a workshop about mobility and public space at the Design Department of the Sandberg Instituut where I work as an educator, and last year you hosted a [[#Channeling_Listeners\|channeling listening session]] on the last day of the H&D summer academy. <ref>https://hackersanddesigners.nl/s/Summer_Academy_2021/p/HDSA2021_End_Program_with_Gabriel_Fontana_and_Aimee_Theriot-Ramos</ref> The last time we talked was on the occasion of a [[#Scripting_Workshops\|workshop]] I hosted, which was addressing the workshops as such. One of the sessions was dealing with what I came to refer to as a “pedagogical document,” which is a kind of genre of graphic design, but also a genre of design pedagogy and collective practice. Pedagogical documents could be instruction manuals, how-tos, scores, workshop scripts, game plays. These are documents to learn from and with. They are documentation of ephemeral learning moments but also cater to future use. You read my invitation to this workshop and kindly offered to send me your repository of pedagogical documents. I was very curious about them and more specifically about how they relate to your practice?

	'''GF:''' Indeed, workshop manuals are at the core of my pedagogical practice. Year after year, I developed a collection of scripts that I designed for workshops and classes, facilitated in various contexts such as Sandberg Instituut; BAK, basis voor actuele kunst; and Design Academy Eindhoven.		'''GF:''' Indeed, workshop manuals are at the core of my pedagogical practice. Year after year, I developed a collection of scripts that I designed for workshops and classes, facilitated in various contexts such as Sandberg Instituut; BAK, basis voor actuele kunst; and Design Academy Eindhoven.

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	[[File:Timetable.jpg\|thumb\|class=title_image\|Page from Workshop manual "Gestures in Transit," Gabriel Fontana, Vivien Tauchmann, 2021]]		[[File:Timetable.jpg\|thumb\|class=title_image\|Page from Workshop manual "Gestures in Transit," Gabriel Fontana, Vivien Tauchmann, 2021]]
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	[[File:Timetable.jpg\|thumb]]		[[File:Timetable.jpg\|thumb\|Page from Workshop manual "Gestures in Transit," Gabriel Fontana, Vivien Tauchmann, 2021]]
	[[File:Transit-iteration1.jpg\|thumb]]		[[File:Transit-iteration1.jpg\|thumb\|Page from Workshop manual "Gestures in Transit," Gabriel Fontana, Vivien Tauchmann, 2021]]
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