Quietly Alongside (Clay and Wellbeing) (Clare Day) (part of doing together 25)

Quietly Alongside (Clay and Wellbeing)8th April 2025Quietly alongside each other, the clay, the river and the trees. What can simple acts of making and unmaking tell us about how to be present in the moment, and can that be enough? Can we find permission for play and joy and slowness while feeling our way with clay?This workshop aimed to encourage participants to gently notice sensations, feelings and thoughts that come up, to hold no expectations of a finished object, and to take away only our thoughts and our clay to continue afterwards in whatever way we wished.doing together 25doing together is a yearly two-day making and sharing practice symposium at Locksbrook Campus, hosted by the Art Research Centre (Bath School of Art, Film and Media) in collaboration with Bath School of Design and the Centre of Cultural and Creative Industries.doing together is a platform to connect staff, students, and the community through making, collaboration and experimentation.Workshops, delivered by staff and PGR students from across the University, share practice-based research methods and a broad range of approaches to practice. doing together is proposed as a generous space to make/do/share and discuss practice with colleagues from a range of different Schools.Throughout the symposium, facilitators – alongside participants – test out ways of doing together in an effort to make their practice-based research explicit, rather than simply describe it.