Co-organisers: Jiwei Zhou, Raphael Kim, Iohanna Nicenboim, Anton Poikolainen Rosén, Fernanda Costa, Netta Ofer, Serena Pollastri, Heidi Biggs, Doenja Oogjes, Bahareh Barati.
When: 14th June, 9:00 AM – 17:00 PM
Where: DIS26; Conference Venue & Labrador Nature Reserve, Singapore
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 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 speakingfor other beings, 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.
To participate, send your expression of interest tojiweiz@kth.se by the 21st of May!
For more information: https://multispecies-response-ability.my.canva.site/workshop