Spacemaking as Sanctuary // Mapping Belonging
Schedule
Tue Dec 02 2025 at 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Two Temple Place | London, EN
About this Event
Led by artist and facilitator Dionne Elizabeth, you’re invited to engage with inner and outer ecologies of care, memory, and presence, using the architecture and atmosphere of Two Temple Place as a living, breathing backdrop. The session creates space to listen, move, and create as acts of reclamation. Rooted in indigenous wisdoms and knowledge systems, practices and theories of artists and thinkers including Toni Morrison’s ‘site of memory’, Édouard Glissant’s ‘Relation’ and ‘Tout-monde’, adrienne maree brown’s ‘Emergent Strategy’ and Sylvia Wynter’s ‘reworlding of care’ as we imagine new worlds, maps and ways of being. Here, somatic awareness, mark-making, and storytelling become tender tools for remembering and re-imagining how we inhabit histories of exclusion and rehearse collective sanctuary.
What to expect:
A sensory-led practice / ritual / invitation / exploration in Other ways of Being, particularly centering the lived experience of disabled and neurodivergent humans, we ‘move at the speed of trust’ (shoutout to adrienne maree brown).
Offerings include:
> somatic tools + resources
> mark-making
> creative mapping
> spatial wandering
> Storytelling and reflection of our living archives.
Explore personal and collective archives and experiment with ways of re-worlding, remembering and reimagining new forms of sanctuary. Embodied drawing, writing, and sensory prompts guide participants to explore what belonging feels like, in the body, in space, and in relation to others.
The workshop culminates in a collaborative zine-map, bringing together individual reflections and collective gestures to form a shared archiving of the afternoon and handmade map of presence, care, and portal of possibility.
~ Rehearsing rest, pleasure, play, expression, interdependence, boundaries, care, ease and softness so we may co-create safe-enough and accessible spaces to land.
We start from where we are, with what we have.
No experience necessary.
EveryBody is invited.
About the workshop facilitator
Dionne Elizabeth is a transdisciplinary artist, writer, researcher, and educator based between the UK via the Caribbean. Her practice weaves visual art, sound, text, film, somatics, ecology, ritual, and archives to explore how spaces can be re-worlded toward greater care, freedom, and imagination. Rooted in accessible, inclusive, sustainable and socially engaged practice, she creates sensory-led Spacemaking installations and experiences in “unusual” spaces locally, internationally, and online. She co-founded the Black Art Collective at Central Saint Martins and has 25 years experience creating Spacemaking interventions internationally. Collaborators include Healing Justice LDN, MK Gallery, the Norwegian Film Institute, Freelands Foundation, KODE - Art Museums and Composer Homes (Norway), and University of the Arts London. she continues to experiment with ‘alt art school’ interventions in her practice-based research. Her ongoing research and teaching explores art and embodiment (particularly through the lens of neuroscience + the social-body) as de/anticolonial practices for creating sanctuary, healing, and belonging through sensory experience. Connecting artistic, cultural, and indigenous knowledge systems, her work investigates how we might re-world spaces toward greater care, freedom, and imagination.
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https://www.instagram.com/dionne_______/
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About this series of events
Flowing through: a workshop festival
Monday 01 & Tuesday 02 December 2025
Curious about stepping into a live performance? Ever wanted to make your own mini-booklet? Or simply want to get lost in a new making process alongside other creatives?
This two day workshop festival at Two Temple Place is your chance to experiment, play, and discover new possibilities. Led by UAL students and staff these workshops will guide you through hands-on creative activities.
All the workshops respond to themes related to vulnerability, resilience, identity, and emotional well-being. Themes that form part of The Weight of Being exhibition taking place at Two Temple Place in January 2026.
Free and open to all. Booking essential.
Where is it happening?
Two Temple Place, 2 Temple Place, London, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 0.00
