Critical Kinaesthetics: the social construction of gait - A game for Critical Learning

Critical Kinaesthetics: the social construction of gait - A game for Critical Learning is a set of educational aids to function as tools to enhance critical awareness. This set of educational aids built on key pedagogical anarchist values, aiming to create and enhance awareness in participants to enable autonomy through uncovering and expressing authenticity. This is explored in a game format through a series of various playful exercises using playing cards and other media as tools for learning. It does this through breaking down the pillars of anarchist pedagogy into several exercises that invite students to investigate their personal history, their awareness of the body and its movement, the social construction of gait, narrative building, the analysis of culture, economy and technology in a social context through visual essays, and collaboration in order to foster responsibility and empathy

The first prototypes of this educational tool has been trialled in a two-week workshop in February of 2020 at HEAD Geneva School of Art and Design as a case study.