Reclaiming Embodied Creative Practice

A participatory exploration of regenerative creative practices—and on resisting (self-)exploitation within capitalism.

This tutorial is both an exploration and a participatory workshop on sustaining embodied design and art practices within capitalism, where product outweighs process. In a world driven by speed and extraction, embracing slowness, fragility or failure is radical. Rather than offering a formula for success or self-optimization, Amanda explores slowness and resilience as forms of resistance. She focuses on living resourcefully while co-creating strategies for survival—not rejecting productivity, but finding ways to thrive within present realities. How can we stay grounded and nourished, individually and collectively? How can we break cycles of extraction and transform them into practices of healing? Is this a privilege of the few?

Through discussion, shared reflection, and practical exercises, participants will rethink their creative practices. This tutorial draws on years of navigating (self-)experimentation and creative labor balanced by yogic and mindfulness practices. It offers a space to explore more embodied, regenerative ways of working.

Amanda Haas (she/they) is a Swiss-Egyptian graphic designer, art director, lecturer, embodiment guide, researcher and writer. Working as Studio Amanda Haas in Berlin and more recently in Basel, she has created entire identities, books, and websites for labels such as She said, Futuress, Rhizomet, Kunsthalle Basel, Familiar Faces etc., artists, museums, in Germany, Switzerland and beyond. With School of Observation, an interdisciplinary research and publishing practice, she collaborates with artist Giacomo S. Rogado on more experimental work, resulting in award-winning books, open-ended investigations, activism, and embodiment happenings.

Event Information

This event is co-hosted with Brand-New-Life, an online magazine transversing visual art, art criticism, and practice-oriented research to focus on the complexities and ambivalences of worlds in transition.

On-site participation:

Open doors: 3:30 pm CEST. The event will start at 4 pm so please make sure to be at the space in time.

Address: InfoSpace, Auf dem Wolf 11, 4052 Basel, Switzerland

Accessibility: Located on the first floor, InfoSpace is wheelchair-accessible and can be reached via the lift from the ground floor. On the first floor are two wheelchair-accessible toilets.
Please ring the bell to enter the building.


Online participation:

This event will be close-captioned.

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