The Shape of a Practice

Huiying took part in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s The Shape of a Practice, where she and collaborator Michelle Lai took part in the Sensing Seminars. Huiying and Michelle also spoke on the Public Programme, accessible here alongside case studies from different participants, for the span of the week:

shape.anthropocene-curriculum.org

Thursday 29.10 (Place and Space at 7.30pm) with Imani Jacqueline Brown , Brian Holmes , Margarida Mendes , Ng Huiying , moderation: Abbéy Odunlami

Friday 30.10 (Sensing at 4.30pm) with moderation by paleo-ecologist Allison Stegner and design researcher Yasaman Sheri

Saturday 1.11 (Social Witnessing at 11.30pm) with Michelle Lai; TANAH

More on the programme here

Sensing Seminars:

“Embodied,” “Extended,” “Environing,” and “Unlearning.” The case studies explore ideas about sensing within ourselves versus sensing processes or phenomena which are too great for us to experience directly. They also juxtapose embodied sensing (what we see, hear, smell, etc.) with extended forms of sensing (sampling, remote sensing, etc.). The need to step out of our own frame of reference and habits of practice, and to become “contaminated” with other perspectives (whether other individuals, other cultures, or other species) is also developed in many of the proposals.

The 4 angles explore sense making through social, political and cultural retooling while addressing the temporal and perceptory scales at which sensing can happen through alternative practices. Starting with the body, we dive in the less explored ways of sensing and knowing, through reframing of what we already have offering empowerment of access to often neglected senses. In the second theme of extended perception we discuss and cover the networked realities built through instruments that make the imperceptible, visible. The final two, environing and unlearning, focus on sensing practices that propose a relationship with the environment as an active dialogue, by questioning how we know and building new forms of knowing through the notion of collectivity, equity, and multiplicity.

Mon (10.26) Embodied: The Sensory Self & beyond the eye (the embodied human body)
Tue (10.27) Extended: Networked Perception (scales beyond the human scale of perception)
Wed (10.28) Environing: Shaping and being shaped by Environment
Thu (10.29) Unlearning: Making Space for new forms of knowing

Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)