Moving Stories
Lys Skår II Performance , NYC, USA - Devised and directed by Tassy Thompson in collaboration with Mitya Staev and Robson Catalunha, Kelly Haddo-Namo Jimoseyang-Tunuppasog and Denise Silva.
Photo©mariebaranova
Tassy Thompson is a PhD Research Fellow at USN focused on Landscape and Sustainability. She has worked for 3 decades as a self employed artist & designer in UK, USA and Norway across visual and performance art, dance, architectural & play design. Her practice centres on playful, participatory outdoor activities in local community settings as intergenerational and interdisciplinary sites of learning forming a vital and ‘ludic ecology’. (Sturrock & Else 1998, The Colorado Paper)
Tassy’s research interest and life long passion is in exploring on how local communities (human and more than human) play and learn together in dynamic ‘correspondence’ (Ingold 2017 Anthropology and/as Education). Her research works towards new insights into social and cultural values for sustainability in learning, beyond and between typical educational settings and structures. Tassy will be presenting a paper at the BIN Conference Designing for Play in the New Nordic Childhood which explores how movement theories from fields of performance art, architecture and play might offer new understandings for architects, designers, planners and communities towards sustainable learning environments.
Her PhD research includes “Moving Stories, Community Landscapes, Meaningful Ecologies”, a participatory visual research project with two communities in Scotland and Norway exploring movement with digital data in expansive landscapes; physical and digital.