陈昱凝
Yuning Chen
Biodesign
Feminist STS
More-Than-Human
Ciao! I am Yuning Chen, a PhD candidate between Design Informatics (Edinburgh College of Art) and STIS (Science, Technology and Innovation Studies) at University of Edinburgh.
With a background in environmental science and design engineering, I am fascinated by the practice of designing with living organisms. And more importantly, how working with more-than-human life could challenge anthropocentric perspectives entrenched in our capitalist ecologies.
My practice-based research looks into more-than-human ethics in biodesign and the broader biotechnological practices, with a particular focus on labour justice and practice of resistance.
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Project:
Morality Calculus
Morality Calculus Food Theatre
Labour Provenance
Bevergising Spirits of Asilomar
Scents of Asilomar
Microbial Revolt
Carbon Alchemy
Plant Reality Set
Project Habitate
Mobius
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Feel free to contact me for collaborations or brainstorming ideas! Morality Calculus Food Theatre
Alongside the display of the real lab-baked hybrid bread, an food theatre was held to provide a speculative tasting experience for the participants to explore their personal morality calculus. Drawing on Acampora’s Corporal Compassion, the menu is designed to feature a selection of food made by human-microbe hybrid cells, purported to have gone through similar bodily stress. For example, a baugette made by contortionists’ muscle cells hybridised with compressed yeast.
Through selecting, deliberating and finally, ingesting food with fellow participants, the audience was invited to calculate the incalculable – the moral weight of genetic parts from different living beings, and to reflect on the choices they’ve made during the process.
Credit:
Yuning Chen
In collaboration with:
Elise Cachat
Special thanks to:
Rohit Ashok Khot
Zunaira Aman
Keili Koppel
Ari Beckingham
Diane Lac
Larissa Pschetz
Rachel Harkness
Jane Calvert
Mark Kobine
Luca Cocconi
04-05/2024