experience:
Caroline
Caroline
On a red sofa in Edinbrough I found myself sitting next to a lady, drinking a glass of wine. We were part of a gathering to make an EU proposal hosted by Napier University. I recognized the lady as
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Satinder Gill argues that in order to witness, there has to be a connection. The notion of presence is considered in terms of one person being in the presence of another. One is aware of the other.
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In order to notice, something would have to have occurred that is not quite in sync with everything else. For example in studies looking at groups, Gill found that the moment one person’s body goes
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Skills for being in flow, irrespective of cultures, are learned from the moment you’re born through mother-baby coordination. The voice and the body of caretaker and child move together.
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There is something in the space between our bodies that you can sense and feel how another person is. It may be just a slight movement, maybe they moved with their head. It may be the way their voice
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The notion of entrainment refers to how two clocks become synchronized when their pendulums swing differently. Eventually they will interlock and move at exactly the same time. That is Nature. So
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Being in flow with others makes it easier to act. When someone is out of flow, it is harder for this person to sense and use the possibility to act. Taking a first step is always easier if someone
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Gill tells several stories about the surprising fact that people develop a sense of ‘we’ in online environments. Such a “feeling of connectedness” in an online environment builds upon codes
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In face-to-face contexts transactions are emerging out of rhythm and coordination. People say that the first moment you meet someone, in those first few seconds, you begin to develop a kind of sense
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In music timing is very important. If you get the rhythm right, the tune will be recognizable as long as the notes are more or less in the right place. If you focus on getting the notes right and get
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One of the great people working on synchrony was Condon. Working in psychiatry, he understood the relationship between rhythm and health and well-being. Condon found that synchrony is fundamental for
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The spatial dimension is physical embodiment, but in the online environment we’re disembodied, time is disembodied. We can have action to feeling. But that is still not the same. So it may be that
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Full transcript including film fragments you find at: http://www.systemsdesign.tbm.tudelft.nl/witness
Hereunder the transcript in text.
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