Common presence: invention devices in health education and training

Abstract

Driven by the desire to take the risk of inventing with what is at hand, we conducted a research and university outreach project for health students called “Methodologies of Presence”. We developed a remote content creation platform to encourage participants to produce and share artistic exercises from three presence activations. The experience included the participation of a temporary community. Propelled by threshold pedagogical and artistic practice, we inquired how was it possible to establish this sensitive and vitalizing state within the group. What types of composition drove the singular and collective transformations spurred by the materialization of artistic productions? Which different qualities of presence were mobilized? Can artistic production, common presence, and the construction of groupality exist within techno-mediated communications in health education and training?.