The Studio as a Commons | Emma Jayne Park
The Work Room Studio & Green Room
The Studio as a Commons
An open practice shared studio space | Thursday 13th March | 11:30 - 15:30
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
The Studio as a Commons is the first offering as part of this series.
ABOUT THE STUDIO AS A COMMONS
An invitation to work independently on your own practice within a shared studio, designed in the spirit of resource sharing. This initiative acknowledges the lack of consistent access to studio space and aims to create an opportunity for dance artists to gather as a community.
Building a commons requires collective stewardship, shared governance, and an ongoing commitment to cooperation—values that resonate with the ethos of The Work Room. This session will explore how these principles can be embodied within a shared studio over a few hours, fostering a space for exchange, solidarity, and collective practice.
TIME, DATE, & PLACE
The Studio as a Commons is on Thursday 13th March, from 11:30 - 15:30 in The Work Room studio and green 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
Members can email hello@theworkroom.org.uk to let us know you'll be coming and to discuss and access requirements we can put in place to support you.
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.