The Sensitive Transitions research-creation collective is organising an afternoon of sharing and exchanging ideas about the work it has carried out during its first year. The programme includes a presentation of the collective, a bodywork workshop and an exhibition.
A sensitive tension: between immobility and frenzy at work
For this first series of workshops by the Sensitive Transitions collective, fishermen’s work, remote working and live models were the starting points for enigmatically exploring a sensitive tension that resonates in all of us: between immobility and frenzy at work.
The four workshops enabled us to experience and explore in different ways the contemporary tension or balance that shapes our professional worlds. They also enabled us to begin sketching out a “thought in gestures”, or a thought that is constructed through sensitive bodies in action. We investigated, among other things, the gestures of the immobile, immobility as a tool of analysis and object of observation, the anchoring and dispersal that play out between immobility and frenzy, the living and moving nature of the immobile in the face of frenzy… So many sensations, perceptive intrigues that shed new light on the way in which we analyse and explore social dynamics at work.
The results of a year’s work by the collective
The afternoon of October 9th, 2025 will be a time for sharing and exchanging ideas about the work of the collective, which will be presented in a variety of ways. The exhibition “Entre immobilité et frénésie au travail” (“Between immobility and frenzy at work”) presents these experiences, and the public will be able to experience what goes on in this search for thought in action.
This event will also be an opportunity to discover a concrete experience of the fruitfulness of thinking at the crossroads of dance and work set up by Sophie Aubert within the Airbus company, with a view to encouraging wider exchanges around the sensitive dimensions of work and the conceptual and methodological tools needed to grasp them.
Afternoon programme
- 2pm: Coffee reception
- Words of welcome
- Presentation of the Transitions Sensibles collective
- Interactive podcast: “What dance can teach us about work” – Sophie Aubert, ergonomist at Airbus Operations.
- Bodywork Workshop: Between Immobility and Frenzy
- Presentation of the Sensitive Transitions exhibition
- Time to visit the exhibition and exchange views
Sophie Aubert, an ergonomist at Airbus Operations, specialises in the design of training courses for the technical professions involved in aircraft assembly. Her initial work focused on analysing the profession of aeronautical painters, highlighting the complex, embodied, sensitive and collective dimension of the painters’ skills, put into words through the “painters’ ballet”. This work is presented in the following article: Aubert, S. (2000). Transforming training through work analysis. Éducation Permanente, Vol. 143, pp. 51-64.
About Sensitive Transitions
As part of Iméra’s Arts & Sciences programme, the Sensitive Transitions research-creation collective is exploring the sensitive dimensions of work through an original approach to thinking in gestures. Drawing inspiration from dance laboratories, this approach aims to propose other ways of thinking about and acting on the worlds of work.
Coming to Iméra
- Pedestrian access: come through the gate of the 2 place Leverrier, 13004 Marseille.
- PRM access: come through the gate of the Allée Jean-Louis Pons, 13004 Marseille.
