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## title: About this Garden

→ [Version française](À-propos.md)

# About this Digital Garden

## What you'll find here

This digital garden explores **enactive pedagogy** and the **Alexander Technique** from a phenomenological and embodied cognition perspective. It's a work-in-progress research space where theoretical concepts grow and interconnect over time.
===> actually, a big jumble

## Main themes

- **Enactive pedagogy** (pédagogie énactive) - integrating Varela's enactive cognition with somatic practices
- **Alexander Technique** - coordination, inhibition, and kinesthetic awareness
- **Embodied cognition** - H.Godard, R.Zahn, biotensegrity, fascial approaches
- **Phenomenology** - middle voice (voix médiane), lived experience
- **Gestosphère** - a theoretical framework for understanding coordination as distributed agency
- **Neurophenomenology:**
  - **First-person perspective** - lived experience, phenomenology (what I experience)
  - **Second-person perspective** - intersubjective relationship (what WE share, empathy)
  - **Third-person perspective** - objective observation, measurements (what is observed externally)

## Key thinkers

Francisco Varela • Hubert Godard • Tim Ingold • Nikolai Bernstein • Maurice Merleau-Ponty • Emma Bigé • N.Depraz •

## Language note

Most content is in **French**, reflecting the nuanced theoretical work around concepts that don't always translate cleanly:

- _Voix médiane_ (middle voice)
- _Geste fondateur_ (foundational gesture)
- _Gestosphère_ (gestosphere)
- _Emulation_ (emulation practices)

Feel free to engage even if you don't read French - the concepts and wikilink networks might still resonate across language barriers.

## About me

I'm **Matthieu Gaudeau**, a researcher and practitioner of the Alexander Technique based in Limoges, France. This garden documents my theoretical exploration of embodied learning.

## How to navigate

- Follow the [[wikilinks]] to explore connected concepts
- Check the graph view to see conceptual relationships

## What I'm working on now

- Developing the theoretical framework of _gestosphère_
- Exploring connections between Godard's work and biotensegrity
- Investigating the concept of _voix médiane_ in coordination
- Building this garden as part of the Agora network
  _Updated: December 2025_

## Connect

This garden is part of the [[Agora]] - a federated network of digital gardens. You'll find my notes in conversation with other perspectives on similar themes.

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Inspired by [digital gardens](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history) and federated knowledge sharing.

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_Last tended: [[13-12-2025]]_