On Tuesday 10 July 2012, Melissa Trimingham of CKP presented a lecture demonstration alongside Donatella Barbieri, Senior Fellow for Design for Performance at the V & A. ‘The Embodied Researcher: effecting change through the body, creative processes, materials and interaction’ took place at the Barbican London as part of the current Bauhaus exhibition Art as Life.
Inspired by the Bauhaus, Melissa Trimingham applied the notion of transformation through costume to her work with autistic children (http://www.imaginingautism.org/); and Donatella Barbieri explored synergies with the Bauhaus via narratives, gestures and performed meanings deriving from Lecoq's LEM workshop.
The Embodied Researcher was part of a series of talks initiated by Donatella Barbieri, titled 'Making the Paradigm Shift in Design for Performance Through Costume'.