Guest lecture 13/03/2025.

SensingSite is an artist collective whose work mainly revolves around practice-based research, with a central theme of place. They describe their knowledge-making as non-linear through their collaborative ways of working, as they work without (and perhaps against) hierarchy. The project discussed in the lecture was based around Westfield Stratford, they are particularly interested in what places such as Westfield can show us about collective activety, which a collaberative approach benefits from. The group meets at Westfeild and documents it from their individual perspectives mainly through photo, video and audio. This documentation is then shared and the group decides together what artistic project they make from it. SensingSite uses Miro boards to map their ideas and thoughts. Miro was the format for the lecture. For my collaboration, we have used this idea so that we can keep all information in one place and add to it both together and independently.

The group has vague rules of intention when documenting place; work with no expectations, work with no prejudgements, work with no agenda, work with no instructions. I think it is important for collaborators to understand each other’s intentions and ways of working before starting a project, as this massively impacts the outcome of the work and the ease of the process. From hearing how these “rules” affected the group’s work I want to understand my collaborators intentions and desires for the project better.