Moving Awareables searches for embodied care through designing somatic interactions with multi-sensorial artefacts. Moving suggests the body setting artefacts in motion, it also refers to the body moving while interacting with artefacts. Awareables plays with the sound of “wearable” and points to something that makes us able to become aware of our own experiences1. In the process of design research, we asked the question of how to bring self-awareness and care through touch to material forms. We responded to the physical and mental tensions that arose from living fast-paced lives, without having many moments to stop and reflect, while witnessing isolation as never seen before (Covid measures), wars as we thought would not appear again, and crimes against humanity that make us doubt the direction we are headed. We contemplated how to offer embodied care to people facing these challenges.
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Project Lead: Kristi Kuusk
Assistant Researcher/ Movement artist: Hsuan Hsiu Hung