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!
Efforts to integrate living organisms in the design of new technologies are often motivated by prospects of greater sustainability and increased connection with more-than-human worlds. In this project, we critically discuss these motivations by analysing the vast and mostly hidden ecologies of more-than-human organisms implicated in a biodesign lab experiment. Through the lenses of labour theory, we investigate the extent to which organisms’ bodily functions and relationships can be subsumed into capitalist modes of production. In order to help reveal and map out the network of more-than-human contributors to biodesign, we develop a workshop method and a labour provenance analytical framework that identifies five types of more-than-human labourers, stretching from the centre to the periphery of biodesign.
More information can be found in the paper I’ve written with Elise Cachat and Larissa Pschetz named Labour Provenance as a lens to Reveal More-Than-Human Ecologies in Biological Design and HCI [Honorable Mention].
Credit:
Yuning Chen
Elise Cachat
Larissa Pschetz
Special Thanks to:
Oron Catts
Ionat Zurr
Tarsh Bates
Ugne Baronaite
Iseabail Farquhar
Alex Arrese-Igor Royuela
Emily Johnston
Larissa Pschetz
Rachel Harkness
Jane Calvert
Luca Cocconi
08-12/2024