Sport is For Everyone is a transdisciplinary platform that uses bodies, movement, and collaboration to explore inclusion, embodiment, and social dynamics in sport.
Situated at the intersection of sport, art, and sociology, the project approaches movement as a relational and political practice through which identities, power structures, and forms of belonging are both reproduced and contested.
The project is grounded in three interconnected dimensions: embodiment, inclusion, and relationality. These dimensions operate both as conceptual lenses and as curatorial strategies. Embodiment considers how lived, sensory, and affective experiences of the body produce knowledge that often remains excluded from dominant, text-based epistemologies.
Inclusion interrogates who has access to movement, visibility, and participation, and under what structural conditions.
Relationality focuses on the ways sport creates connections between individuals, communities, and environments while also revealing tensions between the individual and the collective.
At its core, Sport Is For Everyone positions sport as a microcosm of society, where broader dynamics of race, gender, class, and power become legible through bodily practices. The disciplined athlete, the excluded participant, the performing body, and the collective team are not neutral figures; they are shaped by historical and political forces that structure who gets to move, how, and for whom. By centering these dynamics, the project shifts the understanding of sport away from performance metrics and commercial narratives, toward a critical and embodied inquiry into human behaviour.
Methodologically, the platform operates through a combination of artistic production, field research, interviews, and participatory formats. These include filmed conversations, collaborative workshops, public events such as hikes and playful activities, and curated exhibitions. Each format is designed to translate research into lived and shared experiences. For instance, collective movement practices such as walking, running, or climbing are used as frameworks for dialogue and co-presence. In this sense, the project treats movement as both subject and method: a way of generating knowledge through doing, sensing, and interacting.
The platform also functions as a curatorial and archival space, bringing together contributions from artists, athletes, and researchers across different geographies. These contributions are not presented as isolated outputs, but as part of an evolving ecosystem of perspectives. Through its digital database and publications, Sport Is For Everyone documents these practices, creating a living archive that reflects diverse experiences of sport beyond dominant Western and performance-driven narratives. This archival dimension is particularly important in bridging contexts between the Global North and South, highlighting how alternative sporting cultures emerge from local, grassroots, and community-based practices.
A key concern of the project is the tension between discipline and belonging, as well as between performance and care. While sport is often associated with optimization and competition, Sport Is For Everyone explores alternative modes of engagement that prioritize accessibility and collective experience. By doing so, it challenges the commodification of sport and opens up space for practices rooted in care and mutual support. These interventions are not positioned as oppositional to sport, but as expansions of what sport can be.
The participatory dimension of the project is central. Sport Is For Everyone invites active engagement through collaborative formats. Participants are contributors, whose lived experiences inform and shape the project’s direction. This approach raises important curatorial questions: how to hold space for multiple voices without flattening differences, how to navigate interdisciplinary collaboration, and how to balance artistic experimentation with research integrity. These tensions are part of the project’s ongoing process.
Ultimately, Sport Is For Everyone seeks to reframe movement as a language of critique, care, and cultural reflection. By foregrounding embodied knowledge and relational practices, it proposes alternative ways of understanding society, ones that are grounded in lived experience rather than abstract systems alone. In doing so, the project contributes to broader conversations on inclusion, identity, and social transformation, positioning sport as an open field of inquiry and possibility.