A look at some of the creative projects that enriched the 2026 Doing Together symposium.
Embodybuilding offered an alternative and playful interaction between the body and the building, inviting unexpected moments of pause, movement, and connection as part of the 2026 Doing Together symposium. Following this year’s theme of ‘being with’, four CPEK members collaborated to create a series of prompt cards for simple embodied practices that were placed around Locksbrook campus for discovery by symposium-goers as they moved between spaces and conversations.
The project had a pre-symposium workshop which inspired the printed prompts. Here is a short video of this process, kindly captured by CPEK member, Chris Lewis-Smith.
By bringing awareness to the body in space, the felt-sense, and the more-than-human world around us, these found invitations whispered out from walls or the floor or the back of a chair to those that happened upon them, encouraging individual or shared embodied experiences in that moment.
The cards were created using a special lenticular printing process, which functions like a hologram, so the overlapping text reveals itself as the viewer moves from one side of the card to the other. This design strategy invites movement in the reading and comprehension experience.
Found postcards were brought together to form new shapes and connections with others at the end of each day. This was an enriching cross-disciplinary project which continues to evolve and be applied with different groups, such as Foundation students, and with staff at the university’s L&T Symposium coming up in July.
Check out this Padlet for more images of Embodybuilding at the 2026 Doing Together symposium.
Embodybuiding’s creators and practitioners are Louisa Clark, Leonora Oppenheim, Sum-Sum Tse Cappi and Silvia Carderelli-Gronau.
Michelle Elliott's workshop Creative Sensemaking explored a multisensory, embodied approach to creative practice, inviting participants to experience creativity as something rooted in the body rather than confined to the mind. Movement was approached not as separate from thought, but as a form of thinking in its own right which is multimodal, embodied and deeply connected to how we make sense of the world.
Through simple movement tasks and playful exercises, participants experimented with how actively engaging the body can create new conditions for ideas and insights to emerge.
Reflecting on the workshop Michelle said "What made the session truly special was the group itself and their openness, curiosity and willingness to explore created a space that felt alive, generous and supportive.
"The thoughtful conversations and shared sense of discovery unfolded throughout our short time." together, enriching the learning for everyone involved."