Resources

Our work is grounded in practice-based research.

For us, creating social arts residencies is both a method of research and a process of discovery. Each residency is simultaneously a method, a process, and an outcome—a living laboratory where artistic creation, inquiry, and learning unfold together. Through cycles of making, prototyping, reflecting, and iterating, each residency generates new questions, methodologies, and insights that shape the next.

The resources shared here reflect this ongoing inquiry into social arts, collective creativity, and pedagogies of togetherness. We invite you to explore, read, and download them.
2026
Aesthetic Language Cards: Noticing and Co-creating Social Fields
Ricardo Dutra Gonçalves & Arawana Hayashi
Deck of cards (PI Press)
Crafting Pedagogies of Togetherness
Ricardo Dutra Gonçalves, Arawana Hayashi, Agathe Peltereau Villeneuve & Anne-Sophie Dubanton
Online resource (U-School)
Building a Science of the Social Field
Presencing Institute
Online resource
2024

Awareness-Based Design: Bringing Design to Social Presencing Theater
Ricardo Dutra Gonçalves & Lisa Grocott
Peer-reviewed Paper
Awareness-based Design: The Role of Making Aware for a Transformative Learning Practice
Ricardo Dutra Gonçalves
Doctoral Dissertation (Monash University)
2022

A family of sensibilities: Toward a relational design practice grounded in materiality and embodiment
Myriam Diatta, Ricardo Dutra Gonçalves & Lisa Grocott
Peer-reviewed Paper
Awareness-Based Collective Creativity: A Studio-Based Practice for Social Future-Making 
Ricardo Dutra Gonçalves & Arawana Hayashi
Book Chapter (Routledge)
2021
Social Presencing Theater: The Art of Making a True Move
Arawana Hayashi
Book
2020
A Pattern Language for Social Field Shifts
Ricardo Dutra Gonçalves & Arawana Hayashi
Peer-reviewed Paper
2019

Moments: a Theater-based Method for Prototyping
Ricardo Dutra Gonçalves & Arawana Hayashi
Blog Post (Field of the Future)
Social Art Studio Residency
Ricardo Dutra Gonçalves
Blog Post (Field of the Future)