Training the Senses

Training the Senses is a long-term series of interactive workshops on the intersection of art and science.

The sessions focus on gaining and sharing physical knowledge with practical experiments. By actively training the senses, participants explore their environment in a new way. 

Each workshop explores a different theme with new experts. By doing this, Training the Senses has been bringing a wide array of makers together since 2016 in workshops that take different shapes: participants go on walks with city flaneurs, explore the relationship between words and smell with neuroscientists and odor specialists, collect movements about to become extinct with dancers and choreographers, or spend an evening with a food designer, composer, surgeon, mosquito breeder or puppeteer.

Training the Senses: Performing work
Photo: Rob van Hoorn

2024

Event, Event, Training the Senses
04 Jun 2024 — 06 Jun 2024

Training the Senses Symposium

2022

Training-the-senses-Echo-location-and-multi-sensory-interactions-
Training the Senses, Workshop
23 Nov 2022

Training the Senses: Echo location and multi-sensory interactions

Training the Senses: Performing work
Training the Senses, Workshop
09 Nov 2022
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: Performing work

Training the Senses, Workshop
27 Sep 2022
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: Listening as Intervention

Training the Senses: Catching Your Eye
Training the Senses, Workshop
30 Jun 2022
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: Catching Your Eye

Training the Senses: Operation Mango
Training the Senses, Workshop
17 May 2022
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: Operation Mango

Training the Senses: Human Experience
Training the Senses, Workshop
07 Apr 2022
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: Human Experience

2021

Training the Senses: Modes of Imagination
Training the Senses, Workshop
27 Oct 2021
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: Modes of Imagination

Training the Senses: The Body as a Score
Training the Senses, Workshop
25 Sep 2021
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: The Body as a Score

2020

Training the Senses: Social distancing
Training the Senses, Workshop
23 Sep 2020
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: Social distancing

2019

Training The Senses: Building Music
Training the Senses, Workshop
14 Nov 2019

Training The Senses: Building Music

Training The Senses: Smell Dating
Training the Senses, Workshop
23 Oct 2019
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training The Senses: Smell Dating

Training The Senses: Sounding Bodies
Training the Senses, Workshop
05 Sep 2019
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training The Senses: Sounding Bodies

Datum: 12 juni
Tijd: 19:00 – 21:00 uur
Met: Elise ‘t Hart, Soundtrackcity, Annelies Jacobs, Marc Alberto
Locatie:  De Brandweer
Taal: Engels gesproken

    Geluiden van huizen en steden
    Welke geluiden bepalen ons dagelijks bestaan?

We registreren ons dagelijks bestaan voornamelijk visueel. Toch is onze oriëntatie net zo afhankelijk van geluid. We luisteren aandachtig naar geluiden van auto’s, fietsen, bussen en metro’s als we door de stad navigeren, en we luisteren misschien nog subtieler naar het geluid van koffiepotten, wasmachines en bewegende stoelen als we thuis zijn. Deze geluiden zijn ons zo bekend, dat ze ons bewustzijn niet bereiken. Maar als ze wegvallen, missen we iets. In deze sessie verkent Marres de geluiden van het alledaagse leven met kunstenares Elise ‘t Hart, onderzoeker Annelies Jacobs, collectief Soundtrackcity en muzikant Marc Alberto.
Training the Senses, Workshop
12 Jun 2019
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: Sounds of Homes & Cities

Training the Senses: Authentic Movement
Training the Senses, Workshop
30 May 2019
Location: Theater aan het Vrijthof

Training the Senses: Authentic Movement

Training the Senses: Beyond Taste
Training the Senses, Workshop
29 May 2019
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: Beyond Taste

Training the Senses: Staging an Ordinary Day
Training the Senses, Workshop
01 May 2019
Location: Breulingstraat 18, Maastricht

Training the Senses: Staging an Ordinary Day

Training the Senses: Motus Mori
Training the Senses, Workshop
17 Apr 2019
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: Motus Mori

2018

Training the Senses: Talking Smell
Training the Senses, Workshop
14 Nov 2018
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: Talking Smell

Training the Senses: Skins
Training the Senses, Workshop
10 Oct 2018
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: Skins

Training the Senses: Silence
Training the Senses, Workshop
12 Sep 2018
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: Silence

Training the Senses: Fieldnotes
Training the Senses, Workshop
11 Jul 2018
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: Fieldnotes

Training the Senses: Walking
Training the Senses, Workshop
13 Jun 2018
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: Walking

Training the Senses: Space
Training the Senses, Workshop
23 May 2018
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: Space

Training the Senses: Voices
Training the Senses, Workshop
25 Apr 2018
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: Voices

Training the Senses: The Wild
Training the Senses, Workshop
21 Mar 2018
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: The Wild

2017

Training the Senses: The Performing Audience
Training the Senses, Workshop
15 Nov 2017
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: The Performing Audience

Training the Senses: The Hearing Body
Training the Senses, Workshop
04 Oct 2017
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: The Hearing Body

Training the Senses: Touch, Taste and Embodied Knowing
Training the Senses, Workshop
20 Sep 2017
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: Touch, Taste and Embodied Knowing

Training the Senses: Mixing the Senses
Training the Senses, Workshop
21 Jun 2017
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: Mixing the Senses

Training the Senses: Sensing Nature
Training the Senses, Workshop
03 May 2017
Location: De Brandweerkantine

Training the Senses: Sensing Nature

Training the Senses: The Sense of Movement
Training the Senses, Workshop
19 Apr 2017

Training the Senses: The Sense of Movement

Training the Senses: Painting as a Sensory Experience
Training the Senses, Workshop
30 Mar 2017

Training the Senses: Painting as a Sensory Experience

2016

Training the Senses, Workshop
08 Jun 2016
Location: Misericordeplein Maastricht

Training the Senses: Body Language

Training the Senses: The Knowing Body
Training the Senses, Workshop
11 May 2016

Training the Senses: The Knowing Body

Training the Senses: The Body Here and There
Training the Senses, Workshop
13 Apr 2016

Training the Senses: The Body Here and There

Training the Senses: Sculpting Flavor
Training the Senses, Workshop
30 Mar 2016

Training the Senses: Sculpting Flavor

Training the Senses: Warming-up for Your Senses
Training the Senses, Workshop
24 Feb 2016

Training the Senses: Warming-up for Your Senses