Freedom to Make Sense
Center of embodied, experiential and mindful research and education
In a complex world overflowing with information, polarized thinking and the rapid rise of AI, our ability to attend with care and make sense within complexity needs practice. How can we, both individually and collectively, find our bearings and the freedom to think deeply? The MakeSense project explores and developes methodologies for research and teaching – involving listening, meaningmaking and the cultivation of “felt sensing“— a blind spot of critical and creative scholarly methodologies.
Led by researchers at the University of Iceland and the Iceland University of the Arts, in collaboration with over 20 universities and research institutions worldwide. The interdiscpinary MakeSense project enacts and experiments with innovative methods of embodied inquiry at the intersection of philosophical practice, mindfulness, artistic research and cognitive sciences. The aim of the project is to introduce and integrate these methods into research and teaching in higher and secondary education in times of crises of meaning – calling for transformative education that reconnects with the vibrant richness of lived experience, natural environments and embodied sources of thought.
Í heimi þar sem falsfréttir, skautun og ofgnótt upplýsinga reyna á getu okkar til að skilja það sem er að gerast, hvernig getum við – sem einstaklingar og samfélög – náð áttum, virt athyglisgáfu okkar að vettugi og hugsað frjálst? MakeSense-verkefnið rannsakar leiðir til fræðilegrar hugsunar, hlustunar og tjáningar sem byggjast á „skynfinningu“ – mikilvægu en oft vanræktu grunnatriði gagnrýninnar og skapandi hugsunar.
Verkefnið er unnið af rannsakendum við Háskóla Íslands og Listaháskóla Íslands í samstarfi við yfir 20 háskóla og rannsóknarstofnanir víðs vegar um heiminn. MakeSense þróar nýstárlegar aðferðir til líkamlegra og reynslubundinna rannsókna sem liggja á mörkum heimspekilegrar iðkunnar, núvitundar, listrannsókna og vitsmunavísinda.
