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! Plant Reality Set
Plant Reality Set is a set of wearables designed to take people into the reality of a plant’s sensory world. Wearing the set, you can taste the light, feel the electric stimulation caused by the wind, and hear the underground water acoustics sensed by plant roots.
The sensory translation process is intentionally designed with the principle of meaningful analogies instead of phenomenological translation. This entails not just taking people to plant’s perceptual reality but also translating these realities in ways that are analogically similar to human meanings. For example, light becomes a taste-based experience: for plants, light is an energy source -- much like food is for us. As such, the different taste delivered through the tongue wearable is mapped to the varying contrbution of light spectrums to photosynthetic, as sensed through the finger wearables.
Ultimately, plant reality set is an attempt to tap into the layer of reality inhabited by plants, and to explore displacing anthropocentric worldview through shifting our sensory milieu. Since different species feels one fragment of the world’s fullness, I am immensely fascinated by being able to learn from other species’ umwelten.
More information can be found at https://2021.rca.ac.uk/students/yuning-chan/
Credit:
Yuning Chen
Lamp Lee
Naomi Nakayama
Special Thanks to:
Ning Zhou
Karen Halliday
2021