My article/ exposition, City Dances: what the city reveals using dance as a method,
is published in the peer-reviewed special issue of RUUKKU No.25 (2026): Dreaming the City for Real.
The special issue asks: “How to dream for real a city, in which the intersecting and often incompatible desires, hopes and interests of those inhabiting it, including the innumerable more-than-human others, can coexist, cross and collide in ways that enable living space for all? What kinds of concrete dreams this ideal presupposes and what horizons might already be within reach? And what kinds of constraints and tensions do they face?”
I suggest: “City offers organisms of complex interactions to dance with and in: interwoven environments that reveal ideologies that shape how mobilities are fostered, constrained, and enacted. In what follows, I temporarily gather these dynamics into three categories—connection, transformation, and learning—to offer a framework to discuss the research shared here –
1) Skins of Concrete, Flesh, and Soil (city: relationships of connection)
2) Becoming into… Human, Mycelium, and Rubble (city: relationships of transformation
3) Presences: Liaisons, Missionaries, Regulations, Enterprises, Imaginings (city: relationships of learning)”