Constructing Dystopia Through the Body: Building Possible Futures Through Process Drama

The aim of this workshop is to transform the crisis fields presented by dystopian narratives into a bodily and intellectual inquiry process through process drama, and to develop participants’ critical awareness, collective production, and performative expression skills.

This workshop invites participants to turn dystopian thinking into a field of embodied research through process drama. Dystopia is not merely a literary genre; it is a mode of thinking that renders visible the traces of power relations, surveillance mechanisms, and social fractures on the body.

Throughout the workshop, participants will:

* Explore how the body is constructed as a site of control, discipline, and resistance,

* Produce designs related to this construction through improvisation, image theatre, hot seating, and collective composition techniques,

* Experience the relationship between space, power, and body within a dramatic framework,

* Collectively construct a dystopian universe and question the position of the subject within it.

The process is structured in a way that reveals both the participant’s individual body memory and collective movement capacity. The aim is not only to design a dystopia, but to think, resist, and rehearse new possibilities through the body.