Writings – Talks – Workshops – Podcast

Dive into my writings and other works offered here and discover how to weave bodying, ecosystems, and futurist transformation.

Writings

Books & E-books

Video Journal Editions

Academic Publications

Talks & Workshops

Invited Speaker & Facilitator
Workshop or Panel (Co)Organizer
Scientific Panel Participant

Podcast

Individual Episodes

Books & E-books

Tensional Responsiveness

Ecosomatic Aliveness and Sensitivity with Human and More-than

This book draws on my experience of living with Baka egalitarian foragers in North-Eastern Gabon, my corporate experience, and my studies on bodying, somatics and our connective tissue-system fascia. It offers four propositions on how attuning our neurophysiological presence with a radically different ecosystemic awareness opens up potentials for bodying beyond current legal and political limits into vibrant and ecosomatically alive futures.

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How we sense and move our bodies shapes how we relate with each other. Current socio-economic practices are reducing generative qualities of relating, whilst our bodily capacities for sensitive tensional responsiveness are relevant to (re)generative cultures, the future of work, lifelong learning, sharing, healing and well-being.

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Menopause – Listening Across Cultures

What if menopause were not an ending, but a beginning?
(Available in English and German editions)

Travelling through Brazil, Mexico, Germany and Spain during 2024-2025, I gathered stories from midwives, elders, scientists, artists, dancers, and everyday women to illuminate menopause as a richly human and deeply cultural experience.

The book draws on these more than a hundred conversations and workshops, in health clinics in Bahia, midwife encounters in Oaxaca, and community circles in Barcelona and Stuttgart, to explore the Change as a portal shaped by food, ancestry, language and the Earth’s wider rhythms. Blending academic research with storytelling, it offers readers a different way of understanding menopause: not as decline, but as creative fire – an ancient inheritance that reconnects us to intuition, desire and the wisdom of community.

Moving, transformative, and fiercely encouraging, this book invites a more creative way for meeting the Change.

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German Edition

Menopause - Zuhören zwischen Kulturen (German Abstract)

Menopause: Zuhören zwischen Kulturen führt durch Brasilien, Mexiko, Deutschland und Spanien und sammelt Geschichten von Ältesten und Frauen in der Nachbarschaft, und aus Wissenschaft und Kultur, um die Wechseljahre als eine kulturelle Erfahrung zu beleuchten.

Aus über hundert Gesprächen und Workshops – im Gesundheitszentrum in Bahia, bei Begegnungen mit Hebammen in Oaxaca und in Gesprächsrunden in Stuttgart und Barcelona – beschreibt dieses Buch die Wechseljahre als Prozess und Tor, geprägt von Ernährung, Herkunft, Sprache und den Rhythmen der Erde. Es verbindet wissenschaftliche Forschung mit Lebensgeschichten, und zeigt die Wechseljahre als kreatives Feuer statt als Verfall – als ein uraltes Erbe, das uns wieder mit Intuition, Sehnsucht und der Weisheit der Gemeinschaft verbindet.

Bewegend, transformierend und voller Zuversicht – so sieht man die Wechseljahre in einem ganz neuen Licht.

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Video Journal Editions

Co-Editing With the More-Than-Human: Ecologies of Embodiment  (JER 5.2, 2022)

Looking for ways to address and attune to the ecological changes of our age, this work problematizes the notion of the “more-than-human” and explores the nexus between ecology and embodiment across different artistic disciplines and traditions of embodied research. The editorial evokes our ecosomatic processes of co-editing with the more-than-human, and we offer a poetic commentary alongside video excerpts from the authors’ pieces, which weaves connective tissues between them. We conclude by discussing ecologies of embodiment as a bodily felt and cognitively thought generative space between certainty and uncertainty, knowing and not-knowing, sensing and naming.
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Listening With Earth: Ecologies of Embodiment (JER 7.2, 2024)

This Companion Issue continues the collaborative work of problematizing the notion of the ‘more-than-human’, which began with the summer solstice of 2021, by bringing together different artistic, educational and cultural ways of belonging to earth. The editorial explores listening-with as a speculative and generative (eco)somatic practice for attuning to the situatedness of each article and sensing the impact of audiovisual work in our bones and nervous fascial tissues.

Our process deepened into the relation between listening and voicing – listening until a voice emerges. Alongside video excerpts from the authors’ works, we offer poetic resonances which make tangible the connective tissues between them. We conclude by discussing how embodiment as an ecological experience can transform established academic modes of knowing and doing by allowing a different aliveness into the inquiry.

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Remember-Your-Body Podcast

The Podcast Remember-Your-Body was created for the Somatics Toolkit.
The seven episodes of Series 2 explore our bodying in relation to anatomy, economics, environment, architecture, mobility and systems thinking. The fascinating people I spoke with are: Gil Hedley (E1), Erin Manning and Brian Massumi (E2+3), Arawana Hayashi (E4), Auxiliadora Galvez (E5), Peter Merriman (E6) and Juhani Pallasmaa (E7).

S2 E1: Gil Hedley on integral human anatomy, fascia and the link between body fat and consumer culture

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Gil Hedley talks to Doerte Weig about how discovering our inner bodies allows us to experience our bodies as continuous, to accept muscles as scientific mental creations, to understand how our connective tissues fascia enables movement, and how with appreciation for our bodies we can even come to love our fat.

S2 E2: Erin Manning and Brian Massumi on critical somatic individualisation and why we need more movement in university education and architecture.

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Erin Manning and Brian Massumi, from the SenseLab in Canada, talk to Doerte Weig about schizo-somatic workshops at the Senselab, and how new ways of thinking and moving with relational openness and group subjectivity would benefit teaching and learning in universities of the future.

S2 E3: Brian Massumi and Erin Manning on the economic challenge to collectively reorganize how we value money.

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Continuing with Erin Manning and Brian Massumi, we discuss the emerging 3 Ecologies Process Seed Bank, and how post-Blockchain technologies could reverse today’s economic balance, to collectively emphasize our qualities of experience, making monetary aspects peripheral to our everyday lives.

S2 E4: Arawana Hayashi on social presencing, improvisation and paying attention to each other in organizational settings, and connecting body and mind for a more awareness-based society

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Arawana Hayashi, who heads up the Social Presencing Theater program for the MIT-born Presencing Institute in Boston, talks about her efforts to use her background in the arts, meditation and social justice in organisational settings. She discusses the development of the change framework “Theory U”, and how she and colleagues such as Otto Sharmer put it to use working with NGOs, businesses and Governments, to encourage change by developing capacities for thinking about the whole system, and by moving towards compassion- and awareness-based systems.

S2 E5: Auxiliadora Gálvez on how profound spatial awareness learned from choreography and the Feldenkrais Method inspires the practice and teaching of radical sustainable architecture

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Auxiliadora Gálvez explains how flamenco and Feldenkrais first stimulated her embodied approach to architectural training. With her students and collaborators on PSAAP, the Platform of Somatics for Architecture and Landscape, at the San Pablo CEU University in Madrid, she explores and experiments on body aware understandings of how humans and environments relate. Making students experience spatial concepts in their bodies has improved student success and creative output, and is why somatic education is now at the heart of Auxiliadora’s teaching, research and architectural practice.

S2 E6: Peter Merriman on mobility studies and the social, cultural and political dimensions of everyday movement.

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Leading mobility studies expert Professor Peter Merriman, from Aberystwyth University, talks about the development of the discipline as a field of study in the social sciences, why taking an interdisciplinary approach is important to him and his drive to understand the social, cultural and political dimensions of everyday movement and their impact on national identity and nationalism.

S2 E7: Juhani Pallasmaa on experiencing architecture through art and sensing, the mind-body continuum and architecture as a gift.

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Finnish architect and former Professor of Architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology, Juhani Pallasmaa, explains how art and multi sensory awareness lie at the heart of architecture, based on vision and sensing not as automatic mechanisms but cultural matters we learn during childhood, and how seeing the mind and body as a continuum and architecture as a verb not a noun is central to his teaching, practice and research.

Independent Academic Publications and Book Chapters

3 Key Publications

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  • Editorial for Listening With Earth: Ecologies of Embodiment II. (2024), with Raffaele Rufo. Journal of Embodied Research. JER 7:2, video article doi.org/10.16995/jer.18072

  • Celebrating both/and bodying: transformative learning, transdisciplinarity, and interculturality in Barcelona. Environment, Development and Sustainability (2023). doi: 10.1007/s10668-023-03189-x

  • Editorial for Co-editing with the more-than human: Ecologies of Embodiment. (2022), with Raffaele Rufo. Journal of Embodied Research, JER 5:2, video article doi: 10.16995/jer.10129.mp4

  • Novel Ecosystemic Awareness: Singing-Dancing-Laughing with Earth’. Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices (2021), 13 (1-2), 53-65. doi: 10.1386/jdsp_00036_10.1386/jdsp_00036_1

  • Fascias: Methodological Propositions and Ontologies That Stretch and Slide’. Body & Society (2020), 26 (3), 94-109. doi: 10.1177/1357034X20952138

  • Motility and fascia: how neurophysiological knowledge can contribute to mobility studies’. Applied Mobilities (2019). doi: 10.1080/23800127.2019.1667067

  • Moving With: Molecular Mobilities and Our Connective Tissue Fascia (2019)’. In Jensen, O. B., Lassen, C & Gøtzsche Lange, I.. (eds). Material Mobilities. Changing Mobilities Series. Routledge

  • Resonating with Different Worlds: How Baka Music Practices Generate Sociality, Identities and Connection to Ritual Spirits (2018)’. In Martí, J. & Revilla G. S. (eds) Making Music, Making Society. Cambridge Scholars.

  • Ritual, Body, and Senses in the 5Rhythms Movement Practice’. Journal for Ritual Studies (2018), 32(1), 11-23

  • Capacidad de movimiento: Motilidad como clave para entender movilidades y transformación social de los grupos Baka en Gabón’. Quaderns de l’Institut Català d’Antropologia (2017), 33, 153-167.

  • We descended the Ivindo: Baka Migration to Northeastern Gabon from the 1960s to Today’. African Study Monographs (2017), 38(2), 63-96. doi: 10.14989/225260

  • ‘From Mobility to Motility: The Baka in North-Eastern Gabon’. 
    Hunter-Gatherer Research (2015), 1(4), 421–444. doi: 10.1111/1469-8676.12219

  • Sardana and Castellers: Moving Bodies and Cultural Politics in Catalonia’.
    Social Anthropology (2015), 23(4), 435–449. doi: 10.1111/1469-8676.12219

  • Social Change mirrored in Baka Dance and Movement: Observations from the River Ivindo in Gabon’. Hunter-Gatherer Research (2015), 1(1) 61-83. doi: 10.3828/hgr.2015.4

  • Motility and Relational Mobility of the Baka in North-Eastern Gabon’. (2013) PhD Thesis. Online Publication: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/5238/.

  • Goldwäscherei und Popmusik: Dynamische Einflüsse auf das Leben der Baka am Fluss Ivindo (Gabun)’ (2013/2). Heinrich-Barth-Kurier. Cologne

Talks & Workshops

Invited Speaker, Artist, and Facilitator

4 Key Events

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Workshop or Panel (Co-)Organiser

4 Sample Workshops and Academic Panels

  • Anthropological and creative perspectives on the Menopausal Process (Miradas antropológicas y creativas sobre el Cambio Menopáusico). l’Institut Català d’Antropologia (Catalan Institute for Anthropology). Barcelona, Dec 9, 2024.
  • Ecosystemic Awareness and Artistic Practice in the Doing and Undoing of Anthropology. Panel co-organised with Eleni-Ira Panourgia. EASA 2024. Doing and Undoing with Anthropology. Barcelona, July 23-26, 2024
  • ‘Sonidos de la Selva’. Annual Workshop for Department of Arts & Humanities. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. December 18, 2019
  • Breaking the Wall of … Socio-cultural Movement Stereotypes’. Falling Walls Lab Berlin. Berlin, November 8, 2016
Overview Workshops or Panel (Co-)Organiser
  • ‘Environment and Intimacy from Human to More-Than-Human Perspectives’. Panel co-organiser Claire Vionnet. Environmental Challenges to Anthropology: Elusive Places, Uncertain Times, Hybrid Fields, Vienna Anthropology Days, Sep 28 – Oct 1, 2020
  • ‘A Social Economy for 2040: 3 Horizons Workshop’. Event co-organised as part of the European Social Economy Summit (EUSES), hosted by the European Commission. Mannheim, Sep 24, 2020.
  • Dancing with the Unknown of Indigenous’. Fugitive summit The Wilds Beyond Climate Justice, hosted online by The Emergence Network and Bayo Akomolafe.  May 31 – June 4, 2020.
  • ‘Resonant Body-ing: Cities, Senses and Alterity’. Workshop for Extemporaneous Cities, Art&Education – Mixité. La Caldera, Barcelona, December 3, 2018
  • ‘Weaving Response-Ability within the Humanities: Sensorial Narratives’. Workshop at Humanities in Transition, International Conference 50th Anniversary CSIC-IMF. Barcelona, 23-26 October, 2018
  • Ciudades en beta y los retos de una era híper tecnológica’. OuiShare Fest Barcelona. Barcelona, 15-17 November, 2017
  • ‘Understanding cities as creative networks: a sensorial experience’. Masterclass. OuiShare Fest Paris. Paris, 5-7 July 2017
  • Wie werden aus sozio-kulturell geprägten Bewegungsmustern kreative Spielräume?’ SPIELRAUM  – 24-hour Workshop on Shaping Urban Transformation. Robert Bosch Stiftung. Berlin, Sept 27-28, 2016
  • ‘Urban bodies in motion’. Identity: Bridges, Thresholds, and Barriers, 2nd AIBR International Conference of Anthropology. University of Barcelona, September 6-9, 2016
  • ‘Los límites de lo humano: Más allá del antropocentrisme’. Identity: Bridges, Thresholds, and Barriers, 2nd AIBR International Conference of Anthropology. Barcelona, September 6-9, 2016
  • ‘African mobile people, indigenous space and globalisation’. Embattled Spaces–Contested Orders. Conference of the African Studies Association in Germany (VAD), Cologne May 30 – June 2, 2012

Scientific Panel Participant

Sample Panel Participations

  • ‘Shared ecological literacy of human and more-than: Bodying with ecosomatic resonance’. Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities. University of Warsaw. July 11-13, 2022.
  • ‘Shapes and Qualities: The Aliveness of Both/And as Key to Human Social Organisation’. The Dawn of Everything. CHAGS13. University of Dublin, June 27 – July 1, 2022.
  • ‘‘Cities and Plants: Bodying individual-collective relations in novel ways’. Working Environments, Unruly Natures. WERN 2022. University of Bonn, Germany. June 8-10, 2022
  • ‘The Somatics Toolkit: A catalyst for embodied research and learning’. Embodied Learning: Moving Creativity and Agency. Bath Spa University. Bath (UK), November 18-19, 2019.
  • ‘The Social Dynamics of Mobility’. International Conference on Congo Basin Hunter-Gatherers. Montpellier, France, 22-24 September, 2010
All Scientific Panel Participations
  • Ecosomatic Bodying as Ways of Attuning to Forager Atmospheres’. Hunter-Gatherer Atmospheres. CHAGS13. University of Dublin, June 27 – July 1, 2022.
  • ‘Anthropology and Ecosystemic Awareness: Un árbol de Moabi especula entretejidos futuros de la vida humana con la vegetal’. La condició posthumana: Una antropologia per a l’Antropocè. II Congrés Català d’Antropologia, University of Girona, Jan 2021.
  • ‘Fascia: Materialities and Onto-Epistemologies that Stretch and Slide’. Horitzons posthumanistes.
    I Congrés Català d’Antropologia, University of Barcelona, Jan 30- Feb 1, 2020.
  • ‘Sounds of the Daureb and San socio-spatial perception.’ Seminari Artsoundscapes. Universidad de Barcelona, February 11, 2020
  • ‘The Somatics Toolkit: A catalyst for embodied research and learning’. Embodied Learning: Moving Creativity and Agency. Bath Spa University. Bath (UK), November 18-19, 2019.
  • ‘Gigging, platforming, co-collaborating: The relevance of multimodal sensing in our future work and mobility practices’. Mobility and the future of work. International Workshop of the EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network (ANTHROMOB). Universitat de Barcelona, November 6 – 8, 2019.
  • ‘Echoes from the Present, Echoes from the Past: Experiencing Ancient Soundscapes through Ethnography and Ethnohistory’. 25th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists. Beyond paradigms. Bern, September 4-7, 2019
  • ‘The Somatics Toolkit: A transdisciplinary catalyst for research with all bodily capabilities’. We are All Able Bodies – From Sensory Deprivation to Sensory Augmentation. San Pablo CEU University. Madrid, November 16-17, 2018
  • ‘Broken-Down Orders And Gap-Filling Bodies’. On time – Temporal and normative ordering of mobilities. International workshop. University of Siegen, Germany, September 13–14, 2018
  • ‘The More-than of Acceptable Resonances in Traffic Mobilities’. EASST 2018: Meetings – Making Science, Technology And Society Together. Lancaster University, July 25-28, 2018.
  • ‘Sensorially Aware: The Social and Creative Potential of Bodyworkers’. Bodily Undoing – Somatic Activism and Performance Cultures as Practices of Critique. Bath Spa University, Sept 16-17, 2017.
  • ‘Moving With: The Ontogenetic Diversities and Socio-Cultural Materialities of Walking’.
    Material Mobilities, 2016 C-MUS conference. University of Aalborg, November 29-30, 2016.
  • ‘Tension and Connectivity: Sensorial awareness in processes of migration and mobilities.’ Current Approaches to Migration and Mobility in Ethnology, Folklore and Anthropology, SIEF Migration and Mobility Working Group Meeting. Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Basel, 11-13 September 2016
  • ‘Social Touch: Skin as entry-point to the beyond-human’. Identity: Bridges, Thresholds, and Barriers, 2nd AIBR International Conference of Anthropology. Barcelona, September 6-9, 2016
  • ‘Sardana and Castells: The moving intersection of socio-political values and urban spaces’ Identity: Bridges, Thresholds, and Barriers, 2nd AIBR International Conference of Anthropology. Barcelona, September 6-9, 2016
  • ‘Intensities of Relating: Movement and Sensorial Awareness in Social Dynamics’. Ethnography-based art practices: changing the future of fieldwork. 6th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association, “Disputed Futures”. University of Coimbra, June 2-4, 2016
  • ‘Capacities of Moving and Sensing: Motility as Key to Understanding Mobilities and Social Transformation of Baka groups in Gabon’. II Jornades Internacionals Affric: Mobilitats I Mobilitzacions a l’Àfrica. University of Barcelona, February 26, 2016
  • ‘The Moving Body: Changing Our Perception to Anticipate New Visions’. 1st International Conference on Anticipation. University of Trento, November 5-7, 2015
  •  ‘Human mobility and the ontogenetic capacity of the body’. Grounding Immobilities: Embodiment, ephemera, ecologies. University of Lisbon, September 10-11, 2015
  • ‘Corporal movement as a window on socio-political movements in Ivindo Baka’. 11th Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies. University of Vienna, September 7-11, 2015
  •  ‘The generative role of the body in being human’. Human Being: Cultures, Origins, and Destiny, 1st AIBR International Conference of Anthropology. University of Madrid, July 7 -10, 2015
  •  ‘Cuerpo y política. El movimiento corporal como indicador de movimientos politicos’
    X Ciclo de Conversaciones En El Raval. Barcelona, November 27, 2014
  • ‘How can we understand and conceptualise dance and choreography in contemporary society?’ Colloquis sobre antropologia del cos. CSIC-IMF, Barcelona, November 25, 2014
  • ‘The Baka: Transition of Mobility Patterns and Social Organisation in Gabon’. Moving people, changing culture: multidisciplinary perspectives on population mobility and cultural change. Cardiff University, November 13-14, 2014
  • ‘Idols, Inspiration and Temporality – The dance work ‘Golden trash’ by the MichaelDouglas Collective’. Choreography and Imagination Conference – University of Music and Dance Cologne
in cooperation with the Theatre Collection of the University of Cologne. July 4-5, 2014
  • ‘From Mobility to Motility: the Baka in Gabon’. CHAGS 2013 Conference. Liverpool, June 25-28, 2013
  • ‘From Mobility to Motility: the Baka in Gabon’. VAD (German Association of African Studies) Conference. Cologne, May 31 – June 2, 2012