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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Microbial Revolt


Microbial Revolt is a workshop designed for biodesigners and biologists to redesign their laboratory tools into tools that support the revolt of the organisms they work with. Inspired by Chindogu, a anti-consumerist design movement from the 90s in Japan that creates useless objects, Microbial Revolt encourages its participants to render their lab tools useless for humans but supportive of the resistance of the organisms. It poses the question of: What if we view organism accidents, failures and contaminations as sites of negotiation for better collaborations or coexistence instead of problems to be silenced or resolved? What if we see frictions as generative sites of more-than-human ethical inqiuries? 

More information can be seen in the publication: 

Yuning Chen and Larissa Pschetz. 2024. Microbial Revolt: Redefining biolab tools and practices for more-than-human care ecologies. CHI '24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3641981



Credit:
Yuning Chen

Special Thanks to:
Jiwei Zhou
Raphael Kim
Larissa Pschetz
Rachel Harkness
Jane Calvert
Luca Cocconi 2023-2024