1. Sensing - 
   This part will allow you to activate and explore with your senses.
   
   
2. Sharing - 
   In this part you will share perspectives and experiences and document them.
   
   
3. Meaning making - This part will consist of making 
   recommendations through imaginary transformations.
   
   
4. Map making - In this part you will organise and send 
   the recommendations to lím collective for the creation 
   of the ‘amodk’ (the map).  

• A phone for taking pictures - you may take between 4-12 images in landscape format  for the map
  
  
• A computer to sit down and finalise the elements for the map. You can also write it on a piece of paper and copy it  onto the computer afterwards. 

• Gather a group of people who use a space together regularly.
  
  
• Decide how much time you have for the whole activity (the sensing activity takes minimum 30 minutes). We want to spend a total of ________________ minutes together. 
  
  
• Choose a person to facilitate the exercise. I _______________ volunteer to guide the group and read the activity instructions and keep the time agreed  (sense-facilitator).
  
  
• Choose a person to take images for part 2. I _______________ volunteer to take pictures of the things we sense (sense- photographer).
  
  
• Before you start - if you are exploring a larger space or several spaces - talk about what different areas you would like to examine, and make an order for where you will go first, then you can make the activity in each place. Remember to take images of the things you notice before leaving each area. 
  
  
• Select four senses you want to use for this activity and insert them under the sensing activity. Examples can be: seeing, hearing, smelling and feeling. See a growing list of alphabetised senses at the bottom. Insert your chosen senses, so your sensing-facilitator can remember them:
  


• Sense 1:  _________________
• Sense 2: _________________
• Sense 3: _________________
• Sense 4: _________________
  
  
• Remember that the idea is to allow your senses to guide you so that you can make recommendations or statements regarding the space after the sensing part of the activity. 

• We are going to tune into what our bodies tell us about the space we are in - and for that purpose you will now be asked to consult your senses and ask them for the knowledge they hold about the space we are in.  
  
  
• During the activity, you can move freely, with open or closed eyes (but closing your eyes while focusing on other senses are often helpful) - but you do not have to follow the instructions if they do not make sense to you. They are only suggestions.  
  
  
• To begin with, ground your body in the space. Find a place to sit or place yourself in a resting position, and close your eyes if you want. Take a deep breath in, and relax your body as you breathe out (do this a few times and allow for stillness for 1-2 minutes).
Now we will begin sensing. 

• Everyone takes some minutes to go back to a moment in the exercise you want to revisit  - I will call you back in 2 minutes in a bit to close the sensing activity. 

• Each person chooses at least one object or part of the room, that they would like to tell about what they have seen/heard/observed/felt.
  
  
• One-by-one or area by area - each person describes their experience of sensing the place, and tells about one thing/object/colour/sound that they have focused on or experienced in the activity. 
  
  
• The sense-photographer will take a photo of the thing/object/colour/sound/smell, and move on to the next - remember to take the image in “landscape” format. Only a slice of your image will  appear in the map - so see if you can take an image that maybe reveals the colours, textures, or details of the thing you want to document. 

3

MEANING MAKING

• Now it is time to make some recommendations for the space. 
  Make sure you have something to write on.
  
  
• Each person chooses one or more sensing experiences 
  to turn into a recommendation. 
  
  
• Take the senses one by one.
  
  
• What does that smell tell you? Do you have any associations to the smell - any colours, sounds, or memories?  Would you want it more or less present? Do you want the smell to grow and transform the space? Does this bring you any new thoughts on the space? 
  
  
• Example: The lovely smell of tea coming from the kitchen. If it had a colour, what would it look like? Calm and warm colours, which makes one feel at ease. 
  
  
• Now make a recommendation for the space based on each sensing experience.
  
  
• Example. ie. “Smell. Colour the space with the smell of tea. Put tea stations in every room.”
  
  
• Continue and go through each image, and come up with a recommendation for the sensing experience you have taken pictures of. You can do this alone, or assisted by the group if it's tricky. 
  
  
• Remember to put the sense you made use of to learn about the space as the first thing in your recommendation. 
  
  
• Examples: “Smell sense. Let cooking smells permutate the space,” or “Ancestral sense. Remove colonial imagery from space”.
  
  
• When you have completed this part for each sensing experience you have a list of recommendations starting with a sense, and a series of corresponding images. 

• Date  - Date for conducting the exercise.
  
  
• Location - name of place, city, and country.
  
  
• Description of the location - i.e. “two people mapping their home”, 
  “ten patients mapping a waiting area”, or “a school class in Aarhus mapping their class room”. 
  
  
• Participants - i.e. 5 people, members at clubhouse.
  
  
• Organise photos - Give all the photos numbers.
  
  
• Recommendation list - Make a numbered list with the recommendations and pictures from the activity part 3. Make sure the recommendations are numbered so that they correspond to the photos numbers.
  
  
• Send - Send all the information above to info.limcollective@gmail.com and type ‘amodk’ in the subject line.