If you are going to DIS’26, consider joining our workshop on Multispecies Response-ability in More-than-human Design Practice: Fabulation with Tides 🌊
Designing across species often assumes a one-way responsibility: the designer thinks, cares, and makes. But what if design takes a step back, intentionally making space for responses to unfold, to emerge in between species?
In this workshop at #DIS26, we will explore multispecies response-ability as a design stance: creating conditions in which living beings, shaped by and shaping tidal ecologies, can, in some sense, respond.
We will travel to Labrador Nature Reserve, one of Singapore’s natural coastlines, to spend time with the beings that respond to tides. Through on-site exploration and collaborative fabulation, we will 1) develop design approaches that resist speaking for other species, and instead ask: what would it take to stay open to responses? 2) develop open-ended guides for examining and incorporating response-ability in practice.
We warmly welcome you from diverse backgrounds, with an interest in multispecies interactions, interspecies communication, coastal/tidal ecologies, feminist-posthuman phenomenology, more-than-human ethics, entangled bodies, open-ended design practice, and speculative fabulation.
📅 14th June, 9:00 AM – 17:00 PM
📍 Conference Venue & Labrador Nature Reserve, Singapore
@acm_dis
To participate, send your expression of interest to
[email protected] by the 21st of May!
For more information, please visit link in bio 🔗
Co-organisers: Jiwei Zhou, Raphael Kim, Iohanna Nicenboim, Anton Poikolainen Rosén, Netta Ofer, Fernanda Costa, serena pollastri, Heidi Biggs, Doenja Oogjes, Bahar Barati.
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