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+.12.2022
+'''Learning Ritual'''
+[[File:RitualResearch_PowerFromWithin.jpg]]
+I have committed to creating one ritual or action per week from now for the duration of the semester. I begin the practice of ritual making from an inexperienced and inhibited place. Making rituals and talking about spirituality makes me uncomfortable, but this is also exciting.  I feel clumsy and out of place and so somehow that means this is the right path. To begin this journey I am learning from Jane Batten and reading her book ''Power From Within: A feminist guide to ritual-making''.  She gives step be step instructions for crafting your own rituals including how to plan and structure a ritual, examples for each stage of the ritual and tips around specific ceremonies.
+Batten also touches on my thinking around ritual - the fears and the reasons to pursue a ritual practice. She talks about the general disapproval to terms like 'ritual', 'spirituality' and 'witch', the feeling that ritual is not real and is more a personal indulgence and the fear that ritual might actually unleash a power within us, all of which touch on the resistance I feel to inhabiting a more spiritual way of being. However she notes "it is no use working to change structures if we do not also change ourselves, a key point that resonates with my reasons for beginning this process. I also identified with her critique of white New Zealander's as "living in a spiritually bereft culture" calling for us to not appropriate the spirituality of the Maori people but to "address our own spiritual needs, evolving a sense of ritual that is relevant for ourselves, right here and now". This is the departure point for this project.
+.12.2022
+'''Daphnia as living sensor'''
+[[File:bbe-daphtoxII-white-dcee8c20.jpg|300px]]
+[[File:daphnia-graphic_crop.jpg|200px]]
+Daphnia otherwise known as water fleas are used in water quality testing, to detect contamination with hazardous compounds. The DaphniaToximeter II is in use in water testing facilities around Germany.
+Daphnia are used a biological sensor, as a living sensor within a machine, however we could also monitor the health of naturally occuring Daphnia in  bodies of water to gauge the health of a river or lake.
+I will develop a ritual to establish a connection with Daphnia here in the Ilm and perhaps to begin a practice of care, by checking in on them.
+.12.2022
+'''Deep Listening Practice'''
+[[File:DeepListening_sml.jpg]]
+Deep Listening is a process and a tool to aid in conscious listening. Developed by musician Pauline Oliveros this is a practice to expand our perception of sounds out into the environments around us, out into the 'space/time continuum of sound' and through this expansion to be connected with the environment.
+Deep listening practice consists of energy work, body work, breathe exercises, vocalising, listening and dream work. Working from the book ''Deep Listening: a composers sound practice'' by Oliveros I am exploring Deep Listening as a technique to develop connection with rivers.
+This is is also linking with work I am doing around soundscapes and recording the sounds of the river as a way of listening- with, being-with and making-with the river.
+.01.2023
+'''GRATITUDE'''
+''I am grateful for the opportunity to slow down here''
+''I am grateful for the water of the river Ilm''
+''I am grateful for the water that flows through my body''
+''I am grateful for the relaxing sound of the river''
+''I am grateful for the rain, the snow and the fog of winter''
+''I am grateful for the bountiful food that I eat''
+''I am thankful for the beauty of the dancing reflection of light on the water''
+''I am grateful for the peacefulness of this park on the Ilm''
+''I am grateful for my access to clean drinking water''
+''I am grateful to the Daphnia who live inside the Daphnia Toximeter II for their sensing work''
+''I am grateful for the warmth and light of the sun''
+''I am grateful for the trees breathing and cleaning the air''
+''I am grateful for their shade, their colour, their beauty and their sounds''
+.01.2023
+'''RIVER ASSEMBLAGES'''
+Thinking about Jane Bennett's Vibrant Matter, non-human bodies and the power of assemblages.
+[[File:R2_assemblage_sml.jpg]]
+[[File:R8_riverAssemblage.jpg]]
+[[GMU:Designing Utopias: Theory and Practice/Jemma Woolmore|Back to project overview]]