Alternative Hedonisms

Saturday 15th March |13:00 - 15:00 | Alternative Hedonisms - a movement workshop on joy, pleasure and degrowth principles

During their studio residency in The Work Room (Mon 10 - Sat 15 March), Emma will spend time preparing a series of workshops that translate degrowth principles into embodied practices. Designed through choreographic and somatic approaches, these workshops will explore themes such as reframing time, redefining value, and acts of commoning and solidarity—examining how physical practices can help embody the tools needed to resist dominant societal structures and cultivate alternative hedonisms that function within planetary and personal boundaries.

As part of this research, they are hosting a programme of events and moments to join in collective thinking, moving, eating and chatting.

• The Studio as a Commons | Thurs 13 Mar
• Degrowth Breakfast | Sat 15 Mar
• Alternative Hedonisms | Sat 15 Mar

ABOUT ALTERNATIVE HEDONISMS

This workshop will explore ways of experiencing pleasure, joy, and fulfilment that move beyond consumerist ideals and toward more sustainable, collective, and embodied forms of enjoyment. Drawing from degrowth principles, somatic practices, and choreographic thinking, participants will investigate how pleasure can be reclaimed through presence, connection, and shared experience rather than through accumulation, extraction, or productivity.

This is a workshop for confident movers. Please wear clothes you can move in.

Before Alternative Hedonisms, Emma is hosting a Degrowth Breakfast, of food and conversation in The Work Room. You can book into both events, or come to one session individually.

TIME, DATE, & PLACE

Alternative Hedonisms movement workshop is on Saturday 15 March, from 13:00 - 15:00 in The Work Room studio and resource room.

The Work Room is located on the first floor of Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow, G41 2PE.

There is level access to the studio from the street. The Work Room has two gender neutral wheelchair accessible toilets, a range of seating options (including chairs with and without arms, a comfy sofa, bean bags and ergonomic height adjustable desk chairs)

BOOKING

Please email hello@theworkroom.org.uk to let us know you'll be coming and to flag any food allergies or access requirements

FURTHER CONTEXT ABOUT EMMA'S RESEARCH

Fallow is an ongoing body of research that began as a physical inquiry into labour, land, and belonging. Initially inspired by the act of digging and lying in the earth, it has evolved into an exploration of how rest, work, and time are framed under capitalism. Politically, the project questions the commodification of rest and the potential of labour as an act of reclamation—of land, body, and time. Through movement and embodied research, Fallow seeks to create space for alternative rhythms of living, challenging the notion of productivity as the only measure of value.

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