Doing Rhythmanalysis
Date:
23/05/2019
Organised by:
University of Kent
Presenter:
Dr Dawn Lyon
Level:
Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)
Contact:
Description:
This workshop is an opportunity for participants to experiment with doing rhythmanalysis. It is based on the conceptual and methodological understanding of rhythm proposed by Henri Lefebvre in his short book, Rhythmanalysis Space, Time and Everyday Life. Originally published in French in 1992, its impact has been more strongly felt since the English translation and publication in 2004. It adds a temporal dimension to Lefebvre’s long-standing analyses of space and has been taken up and developed across the social sciences (especially by geographers) in particular to study mobility, place, work and nature.
The workshop introduces participants to the key ideas of rhythmanalysis and how they have subsequently been applied and expanded. These include linear and cyclical rhythms, arrhythmia, eurhythmia, isorhythmia, polyrhythmia and the notion of dressage. The workshop then focusses on specific practices of rhythmanalysis as tools to promote spatially, temporally and sensually attuned practices of research:
- Using the body and the senses as instruments of research to grasp rhythm
- Working with audio-visual methods to document and perceive rhythm and its effects
- Designing projects to document, perceive and analyse constellations of rhythm
Participants might also be interested in the Multisensory methods workshop on the day before (see above).
Trainer: The workshop will be led by Dawn Lyon, Reader in Sociology (SSPSSR, Kent) and author of What is Rhythmanalysis?(Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). It is aimed at social science researchers who are experienced in their own fields but who are new to doing rhythmanalysis.
Cost:
Free to Kent postgraduates, and PGRs in Kent doctoral training partnership institutions.*
£30 for all other PGRs
£60 other researchers: (non-Kent staff, alumni, charity, not for profit organisations)
£90 for external/commercial applicants
Website and registration:
https://www.kent.ac.uk/graduateschool/skills/advancedtraining.html
Region:
South East
Keywords:
Visual Data Analysis, Qualitative Approaches (other)
Related publications and presentations:
Visual Data Analysis
Qualitative Approaches (other)