Workshopology and
Earthly Engagements
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a new course by mary maggic
Workshopology and Earthly Engagements is a new, experimental course taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Site-Specific Arts department. From March to June 2026, fifteen students from various backgrounds, disciplines, and career-stages met weekly to engage in a collective process of participation, reflection, feedback, and care. The class lectures were divided into six thematics:
1. Artists, Warriors, and Public Amateurs
2. From Biohacking to Collective Worldmaking
3. Love and Workshopology
4. Protocols of the Action Dimension
5. The Energetics of Workshopology
6. We Never Create Alone
Together over three months, students nurtured their individual seeds (topics they felt called to grow), excavated the hyperobjects of their seeds (systems they wished to dismantle), developed protocols (vehicles for delivering their medicine to the world), and designed choreographies (scores for their protocols). Their workshopologies were then given to the rest of the class in short-form and final long-form formats in a space of care and constructive feedback. A final class fanzine was created, co-authored by all of the students. The workshopologies in the order of the fanzine are as follows:
Alice Bazzichelli - Cosa Senti?
Amanda Montenegro & Anna Marie Lutz - The Guerilla Pharmacy
Anouk Euler - Impro-sensing
Bobbie Felstead - Usness in Vocal Mimicry
Carolina Páez - Befriending Composting
Erin Kostova - Comparative Empathy Masterclass
Iliya Hosseini - MAAAA
Martina Menegon - Becoming Chimeric
Mélanie Michel - Peeing Is Political
Miri Werther - Wearable Worlds (Un)Masking
Nazgol Sobhani - Roots, Memory, Migration
Paula Kiermaier - To Carry a Bag
Susangela Saracino - Holy Shit, a 24hr Totemic Ritual
Yevheniia Pavlova - Genie Coming Out of the Bottle
1. Artists, Warriors, and Public Amateurs
2. From Biohacking to Collective Worldmaking
3. Love and Workshopology
4. Protocols of the Action Dimension
5. The Energetics of Workshopology
6. We Never Create Alone
Together over three months, students nurtured their individual seeds (topics they felt called to grow), excavated the hyperobjects of their seeds (systems they wished to dismantle), developed protocols (vehicles for delivering their medicine to the world), and designed choreographies (scores for their protocols). Their workshopologies were then given to the rest of the class in short-form and final long-form formats in a space of care and constructive feedback. A final class fanzine was created, co-authored by all of the students. The workshopologies in the order of the fanzine are as follows:
Alice Bazzichelli - Cosa Senti?
Amanda Montenegro & Anna Marie Lutz - The Guerilla Pharmacy
Anouk Euler - Impro-sensing
Bobbie Felstead - Usness in Vocal Mimicry
Carolina Páez - Befriending Composting
Erin Kostova - Comparative Empathy Masterclass
Iliya Hosseini - MAAAA
Martina Menegon - Becoming Chimeric
Mélanie Michel - Peeing Is Political
Miri Werther - Wearable Worlds (Un)Masking
Nazgol Sobhani - Roots, Memory, Migration
Paula Kiermaier - To Carry a Bag
Susangela Saracino - Holy Shit, a 24hr Totemic Ritual
Yevheniia Pavlova - Genie Coming Out of the Bottle
testimonials
“As a fellow colleague at Die Angewandte, and as a PhD student, I am extremely thankful for this lecture. I especially appreciated the non-hierarchical approach to teaching, which allowed for a bonding and caring atmosphere in class. It’s rare to find a space that feels so safe for vulnerability yet so rigorous in its research, and Mary really managed to create that.”
Martina Menegon, Sen.Artist, Transmedia Art, University of Applied Arts Vienna
“One of a kind opportunity that has opened my eyes to new workshop approaches that focus on embodied practices rather than didactic approaches. As a person with a background that isn't located in the realm of "traditional" (fine) arts, this course has allowed me to redefine what it means to be an artist also within my line of work as a social scientist. I truly believe that this experience will have long-term ripple effects on my life.”
Mélanie Michel, University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna
“It was the first time I told about my medicine in the group within the university. It was quite a surprise to speak about it so freely. The result of this event is still to come. But I already feel a significant change within myself. The feeling of not being ashamed but accepted fully and openly is something brilliant. During the course I started to develop individual artistic way to do the workshop. I also start to find the more precise links between my seed and the certain modern philosophical thoughts and authors. All these together allowed me to feel even more self trust, self confidence and most important - calmness and balance. And being in such a state is already quite a medicine which you can offer to the world!”
Yevheniia Pavlova, Site Specific Art, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Martina Menegon, Sen.Artist, Transmedia Art, University of Applied Arts Vienna
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“One of a kind opportunity that has opened my eyes to new workshop approaches that focus on embodied practices rather than didactic approaches. As a person with a background that isn't located in the realm of "traditional" (fine) arts, this course has allowed me to redefine what it means to be an artist also within my line of work as a social scientist. I truly believe that this experience will have long-term ripple effects on my life.”
Mélanie Michel, University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna
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“It was the first time I told about my medicine in the group within the university. It was quite a surprise to speak about it so freely. The result of this event is still to come. But I already feel a significant change within myself. The feeling of not being ashamed but accepted fully and openly is something brilliant. During the course I started to develop individual artistic way to do the workshop. I also start to find the more precise links between my seed and the certain modern philosophical thoughts and authors. All these together allowed me to feel even more self trust, self confidence and most important - calmness and balance. And being in such a state is already quite a medicine which you can offer to the world!”
Yevheniia Pavlova, Site Specific Art, University of Applied Arts Vienna