Dear friends,

We have learned so much through our analyses of systems of conditioning and disconnection (e.g., racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, capitalism, ableism, neurotypicalism, etc.). We have learned that many spaces we have experienced were not designed to meet our needs, especially our need for deep connection.

Because of our experiences within these spaces, we have known very well what it is like to hide ourselves. Deeply knowing our past experiences and our current collective experiences, we have used it all as an opportunity to no longer hide our selves. We have been choosing to create spaces of deep connection, where we can be our rawest selves. Wow, I am so proud of us. May we find each other.

 – justina

Raw Movement is a house of space design, bringing people together to experiment with co-creating spaces of deep connection through collective (movement) practice. 

what we do together

Together, we explore and experiment with how we co-create spaces of deep connection, home, family, emotional safety, through collective (movement) practice. By collective movement practice, we mean the collective practice of moving physical energy in a space, using movement, art, and design to create the energetic conditions necessary for deep connection to be possible.

The agency+Collective for Space Design is a collective of artists, designers, scholars, futurists, medicine workers, and builders of spaces of deep connection that explores and shares science, practice, and experimentation with co-creating spaces of deep connection through collective (movement) practice; we make original movement, art, and design to build a new physical space of deep connection. We create and offer experiential education, tools, trainings, and resources on co-creating spaces of deep connection, home, family through collective (movement) practice. The agency offers consultations, speaking, facilitation, and space design;. we work directly with families, groups, organizations, and institutions to co-design beautiful, medicinal, playful, recreational, and celebratory spaces of deep connection and raw expression in response to collective suffering.

The School for Space Design is a collaborative art & design school bringing together aspiring, emerging, professional, former, and in-born artists to experiment with co-creating spaces of deep connection, home, family, emotional safety, through collective (movement) practice. Scholarships and a fellowship program are offered.

Public Gatherings bring all Raw Movement participants together, along with people and groups committed to creating spaces of deep connection, to experiment with co-creating spaces of deep connection, through collective (movement) practice. In the process, we develop and share our practices of creating spaces of deep connection. Public gatherings and groups are also offered through organizational partnerships.

Through our activities, we gather and nurture ongoing relationships within and between the following groups: our artist collective, school participants, partner groups, supporters, and collaborating artists.

While Raw Movement will gradually expand for us to experiment with designing spaces of deep connection through moving physical energy with object, interior, and building design, we first focus on designing spaces of deep connection through collective movement practice. Raw Movement’s aim is to create beautiful cultures, homes, of deep connection by offering collective experimental space to cultivate our skills and experiences in space design and building.

We apply what we are learning to a collective vision of building a campus where we experiment with co-creating spaces of deep connection, where our needs are met.  

who we serve

Raw Movement serves the general public; artists, designers, builders, researchers, scientists, medicine workers; and groups committed to co-creating spaces of deep connection through collective (movement) practice (movement, art, design) – with some of our activities carved out specifically for Black communities and families. We serve communities that have been harmed, stressed, divided, misunderstood, or isolated. In response to our current collective experience (whether it be joy, play, love, anger, grief, loss, birth, death, union, conflict, suffering, transition), we work with artists, groups, families, and institutions that desire to explore and experiment with how we might gradually create space to collectively feel and express our raw feelings/be our raw selves (including expressing our feelings, telling the truth, and approaching conflict).

about the creator

Raw Movement was conceived by and is being developed by Justina Kamiel Grayman, phd, as she journeys through multi-/trans-disciplinary studies in building spaces of deep connection, from psychology to organizing to movement and applied physics. Essentially, Raw Movement is the home of the developing space design theory, experimentation, practice, and teaching of Justina Kamiel Grayman, phd, The Raw Movement Framework. All activities are guided by The Raw Movement Framework. Read more about Justina here.

guided by The Raw Movement Framework

This is an approach to exploring how we co-create spaces of deep connection, home, family, emotional safety through collective (movement) practice. At the heart of The Raw Movement Framework is experimentation with individual and collective (movement) practices that give access to deep connection to our rawest selves, collective history, ancestry, our bodies’ needs, each other, communities, nature, universe, and collective future – our whole physical world. Read more about the Raw Movement Framework here.