Biography

EBE SOBE is a transdisciplinary collective that explores the haptic and sensory experience of space. Through sound pieces, video and spatial experiments, the collective documents and amplifies the sensory landscapes that surround us. Moving across scales, from houses, street corners and squats to infrastructures and geography, EBE SOBE gathers an evolving archive of overlooked urban fragments that quietly shape everyday life.
These fragments are approached as small models for collective thinking and sensing. By focusing on the fragment and then reconstructing the larger scale, EBE SOBE seeks to analyse and actively construct reality. Zooming into details, much like a camera lens, creates a closer relationship between observer and object, allowing subtle textures, rhythms and atmospheres to come into view.
Through this process, the collective treats space not as pure geometry or function but as something felt, embodied and practised collectively through interaction.

Artistic project

PIRATE PEDAGOGIES is a site-specific project exploring the tactile and acoustic features of urban space through participatory workshops with children. Using a card game designed by the collective, the project creates a photographic card deck of materials found in playgrounds, each of which is paired with questions reflecting on synesthesia and narrative formation.
Using the cards as a guide, the children engage with the space and its materials, experiencing it as a field of bodily experimentation and corporeal sense-making. Through play the materials address the children directly,: “be curious, touch me, climb me”.
The project sees the playground as a research site and pedagogical tool, inviting an exploration through texture, sound, and questions that highlight empathy, care and narrative building.
The urgency of this project lies in the transformation of public spaces into increasingly regulated, standardized, and risk-managed environments. This discipline turn of recreational spaces limits material engagement, preventing creativity from sparkling through informal and unpredictable play.
This phase of the project  focuses on the playground, approaching it as an architectural typology, reimagining it as a site of belonging, creativity and corporeal encounter

Format: Urban Acts

Size of audience: 20 people maximum

Specific location: Play-grounds

Timing/duration: Day workshop of 2 hours or 2 workshops with different groups (one for designing the texture cards, one for playing it)