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I am an author, educator, artist, designer, and consultant for well-being in arts and culture.
I write about contemporary artistic practices, multi-sensory aesthetic experiences, participation in the museum, personal and organisational development, and the pursuit of happiness in everyday life in my creative non-fiction vignettes “the ones”.
At the end of the day, I am most interested in exploring change processes, along with my passions for birds, hikes, and travel.
Abhay Adhikari, Diane Dever and I had the exciting opportunity to bring a next full edition of the Lab to Leeds on March 19-20. Our participants joined us from Leeds, Sheffield, Calderdale, London, and Amsterdam, representing legal and voluntary sectors, theatre and the arts, as well as consulting and local councils. Together, we exchanged projects ideas, shared visions for participation, and worked on concrete next steps to welcome our audiences. A special treat was the input of participants of the Folkestone edition, who shared their experiences with the Leeds group.
Kargin, Fatma; King, Dorothée; Savic, Selena: Teaching Artistic Strategies: Playing with Materiality, Aesthetics, and Ambiguity, transcript, 2024.
Artistic strategies have a great transformative potential to improve research, teaching, and artistic expression. The contributors to this volume show how to unleash this potential by presenting a variety of epistemological experiments at the intersection of artistic research, pedagogy, and innovative practices in art and design education.
In theory, making decisions sounds empowering. In practice? Not so easy. You know that feeling when you’re faced with a big decision. Excitement rises — and then sooner or later, most often comes the Yes, but…. We start to feel doubt, hesitation, and inner resistance. Our mind starts to whisper: Are you sure? Isn’t that too risky? Maybe you should wait a bit longer? Shouldn’t someone else, someone more qualified, do this instead of me?
Published, Nov 2024 as a story by the Wellcome collection:
https://wellcomecollection.org/stories/the-stuck-tampon
Words by Dorothée King artwork by Tracy Satchwill average reading time 7 minutes 20 November 2024
New Narratives Lab, Leiden, Participant, 2025
New Narratives Lab, Leeds, Participant, 2025
Speak Up and Lead, Participant, 2024
Digital Storytelling Lab Folkestone Participant, 2024