Debate Make
with Dr. Shiva Hassan Zarabadi - UCL, Institute of Education
Overview of the session:
Each student designs their own pattern for Henna, first on paper and then if they like on their skin
Each student designs their own pattern for Henna, first on paper and then if they like on their skin
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They are debating about their hopes
Prompts: What is their definition of hope? What are they hoping for? Is it good (or not) to have hopes? What does hope does to our life? What are they hoping for? How achievable that hope is? |
They are debating about happiness
Prompts: What is happiness? What can happiness do to our life? Do we need to be happy? What makes them happy? What makes them unhappy? How achievable that happiness is? |
Debate making with Henna
In this session we debated the themes of hope and happiness whilst making using henna on our skin or on paper. We tried to re-materialize our hopes and happiness with henna. By using henna the focus was on the affective, material, embodied and sensorial layers of hopes and happiness. Made real through the feel, smell and touch of the material. We designed patterns, words, letters, shapes that explored our hopes and became hennaed on our skin.
**This particular session ran during Ramadan. The regular caking, eating and debating found a new platform to emerge, through hennaing, drawing and debating, to work on the sensory surfaces of our skin rather than with the digesting and kind of interior entanglement. We think with the Henna, its affective and material positionality in the lives of Muslim students. Exploring the hope of what it does rather than what it means, and the effective happiness it creates. Looking at the work of feminist scholar Sara Ahmed, the hap in happ-iness and the hap in happening and its relationship with hope as something that yet-to-come and yet-to-happen, makes meaning in the context of this Debate Make.
In this session we debated the themes of hope and happiness whilst making using henna on our skin or on paper. We tried to re-materialize our hopes and happiness with henna. By using henna the focus was on the affective, material, embodied and sensorial layers of hopes and happiness. Made real through the feel, smell and touch of the material. We designed patterns, words, letters, shapes that explored our hopes and became hennaed on our skin.
**This particular session ran during Ramadan. The regular caking, eating and debating found a new platform to emerge, through hennaing, drawing and debating, to work on the sensory surfaces of our skin rather than with the digesting and kind of interior entanglement. We think with the Henna, its affective and material positionality in the lives of Muslim students. Exploring the hope of what it does rather than what it means, and the effective happiness it creates. Looking at the work of feminist scholar Sara Ahmed, the hap in happ-iness and the hap in happening and its relationship with hope as something that yet-to-come and yet-to-happen, makes meaning in the context of this Debate Make.
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Racialising assemblages and affective events
You can explore Shiva's research conducted in collaboration with HGAED students here - |
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