Martyna Groth is a theatre historian, lecturer, and researcher. She teaches at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw, and collaborates with SWPS University. Her work has been published in Pamiętnik Teatralny, Sztuka i Krytyka, and others. Her research interests include transdisciplinary art, science and pedagogy, haptics, synaesthesia, expanded theatre, multimedia, and poetic prose.
In the first essay presented here, Martyna Groth examines László Moholy-Nagy’s futurist tactility and Bauhaus methods, which used tactile experiments and material studies to develop sensory and manual skills, and connects these ideas to contemporary interests in touch, the “do-it-yourself” culture, makerspaces, and embodied knowledge.
