Embodied Scientist Parkour

A training for interspecies communication and deepened relationships with the in-between landscapes of the Schuylkill River.

Embodied Scientist Parkour is a training for interspecies communication and deepened relationships with the in-between landscapes of the Schuylkill River. Reimagining a conventional fitness course, the project invites participants to engage in a series of site-specific movement scores situated along the Grays Ferry Crescent Trail to expand the possibility of how we collect and co-generate embodied scientific data. Find a partner to train with — entangle your bodies with wild urban plants, vibrate with the multispecies highway, and develop new forms of intimacy with the river’s edge. Share your embodied data: #embodiedscientist

Parkour Map (8.5×11 PDF)

Developed by the Environmental Performance Agency with support from the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities.