Hipo 1: Sobre las manos/About Hands

Hands have been regarded in awe and with profound respect by observers of the human genre. They are seen as a peculiar organ key to the transformation of the environment and decisive for both physical and expressive balance as well as for communication and craftsmanship. Hands have a major role in visual and plastic arts, dance and music or in oral discourses as an enhancement and reinforcement of the voice. They participate actively in the development of creativity during early childhood and when involved in occupational therapies. Serving as guides and even as a language when under certain disabilities, hands become the main interface when dealing with tools, machinery and materials of different artistic procedures.

Driven by the desire of generating some sort of interdisciplinary community of texts, this issue of HipoTesis involves hands under its different facets; as heuristic agents that shape, conform, express and question the rest of the body as a place for action, interaction, perception and communication. This interdisciplinary approach strives to involve individuals from distinctive fi elds such as pedagogy, arts, architecture, music, dance and theatre hoping to land them onto common grounds.