house of space design
experimental hub for space builders across disciplines x we design spaces of deep connection.
hudson valley, new york
we are tending to the rampant problem of grief, loss, suffering, conflict, tension, and disconnection by supporting space builders across fields (artists, designers, futurists, community leaders, scholars, scientists) in their research, experimentation, and sharing of medicine, medicinal education, and medicinal spaces of deep connection.
radically needs-centered – communal – black-led – woman/femme-led – queer-led – neurodivergent-led
we support artists, designers, scholars, medicine workers, scientists, futurists and leaders of spaces of deep connection in building spaces of deep connection.
we offer medicine, medicinal education, and ongoing medicinal spaces of deep connection.
The Collective for Space Design: For Artists, Futurists, Designers, Medicine Workers, Scholars Creating Spaces of Deep Connection
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 Collective convenes throughout the Fall and Spring annually.
The School For Space Design: For Individuals Interested in Co-Creating Spaces of Deep Connection
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. The School runs throughout the Fall and Spring annually.
Public Gatherings: Open To All Groups
We’ll share our medicinal movement, art, and design practices with the public, as we experiment with co-creating a space of deep connection. 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.
At Raw Movement, we are collectively building a house of space design, a homebase/gathering space/experimental ground for artists, scholars, futurists, designers, scientists, medicine workers; arts, education, and science groups; and families, groups, and communities who are dreaming of or currently creating spaces of deep connection, home, family, emotional safety. Raw Movement is a house of space design, bringing people together to experiment with co-creating 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.At Raw Movement, we experiment 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. At Raw Movement, we study and practice medicine. Read more about the Raw Movement Framework here.
Through our Collective+agency for Space Design, School for Space Design and Public Gatherings, we bring together people and groups to experiment with co-creating spaces of deep connection, home, family, emotional safety. We apply what we are learning about space design to building a new physical space of deep connection. We invite you to come be a part of building our new house of space design.
from the founder’s desk
Justina Kamiel Grayman, PhD is
Realizing art and movement are communication tools to build power, connect, and mobilize, her original artworks are efforts to mobilize people. Justina’s dance films Woman Versus (2016) and Black Man in America (2018), both of which were recognized by American Dance Festival’s Movies by Movers, explored the mobilization of women and Black men, respectively. For the premiere of Black Man in America, she and her collaborator Vance “Johnny Hobbes” Brown led a celebration of Black men, a magical event where families and friends honored the Black men in their lives through public acknowledgment, dance performances, and conversation. Black Man in America received tremendous community support, raising over $21K for the project from over 400 supporters. While making her own art, Justina started coaching artists and arts professionals in how to design deeply connecting and liberating experiences. Justina is currently developing Raw Movement, which brings people together to experiment with co-creating spaces of deep connection, home, family, emotional safety through collective (movement) practice.
Overall, Justina’s work is at the intersection of education, art, psychology, community organizing, and “spirituality”. Her ultimate mission is to collaboratively create / transform entire communities’ institutions with deep, divine connection – particularly using movement, art, and design (and especially in the darkness). Justina’s creative and organizing practice can be summarized by The Raw Movement Framework, an approach to inquiring about how we co-create spaces of deep connection, home, family, emotional safety. All of Justina’s work is about creating or uncovering deep connection in times of grief, suffering, conflict, and transition.
In Justina’s work, she invites us to make meaning of our grief, suffering, loss, conflict, and transition. She considers our experiences of loss, death, grief, suffering, and conflict as portals to deep connection. In her work, she artistically presences us to our deep connection to all that is, all that was, and all that will be. Her work creates a mothering, spirit-feeding, uplifting artistic experience, presencing us to our deep connection to this whole physical world.
Justina began dancing in college and her professional dance experience includes being a company member in STREB Extreme Action Company (2014-16), dancing with Kristin Sudeikis Dance (2015-2022), and most recently with SLMDances (2021-2022). Justina has taught Human Development, Adolescent Development, Introduction to Psychology, Racial and Ethnic Identities, Intergroup Conflict and Resolution, and Global Psychology at New York University, Walden University, and Manhattan School of Music. Justina is a certified Resilience Toolkit (somatic coaching) Facilitator.
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