Bodies, spaces, environments : Social sciences on a stage
Following the theater and society workshop " Sciences sociales sur un plateau ", organized on January 16 and 17, 2023 by LARSH in collaboration with Le Boulon (Centre des arts de la rue et de l'espace public) de Vieux Condé, in the Unesco Nord-Pas-de-Calais mining basin, bringing together researchers from different disciplines and artists, a new project was born : how do performing arts devices with regard to relations between body, space and environment enable access to the production of new social science knowledge inside and outside the university ?
The project plans to set up further workshops with the aim of producing, with the help of artists, a rendering in both academic and alternative forms. In this project, theater is seen as the element that federates and coordinates disciplines, enabling the overcoming of a hyperspecialized science through the exploration of the possibilities of composition between different ways of apprehending the world (hard sciences/social sciences; arts/sciences) around issues that require systemic approaches.
The issues concerning the relationship between body, space and environment that the project intends to explore, federate many LARSH researchers (historians, sociologists, ergonomists, jurists, philosophers, experts in literature and other art forms...). These issues are also of interest to the Mining Heritage Chair, because of the weight of workers' bodies as represented in their various contexts. It is also a theme that can be explored through the enactment of the body proper to the performing arts, and which is rooted in the issues of the Bassin Minier, particularly through the representation of bodies at work.
