More-than-human Moments via Movement-based Design & Cultural Insights

OzCHI 2024 Workshop

The field of HCI is experiencing a more-than-human turn, expanding its focus on non-human entities, sustainable practices, and the integration of agentic technologies in daily life. This one-day workshop invites participants to co-create moments that facilitate encounters with more-than-human worlds using movement-based design methodologies and exploring cultural insights. Examples include Indigenous Australian games, the whistling vessels of the Incas in Peru, and fables of human-animal, plant, or object transmutation. These embodied experiences with the more-than-human emphasise play, make-believe, and multiple perspectives to foster awareness and empathy with nature that extend into everyday life. Grounded in the idea that our cognitive processes are deeply embedded in our physical interactions and experiences within our environments, movement-based design and cultural insights offer a unique lens to engage with the more-than-human world. This approach can enrich our understanding, research approaches, and relations with the more-than-human. The workshop's outcomes will include a toolkit designed to engage audiences beyond academia in this exciting design space. Both the workshop and the toolkit will be documented in a future academic publication. These outputs aim to provide a platform to further develop the field of more-than-human design.


A Dall-E generated image of "More-than-human Moments via Movement-based Design & Cultural Insights".


Intended audience

We welcome participants from various backgrounds and professions—including students, researchers, and practitioners—interested in more-than-human design and movement-based fields (such as somaesthetics, sportsHCI, dance, yoga, and others). We highly encourage contributions from diverse demographics and parts of the world to enrich our perspectives and discussions.
For more details, please see the workshop paper.

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Read the pre-print paper here.

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Organisers

Josh Andres
The Australian National University, Australia

Vincent van Rheden
University of Salzburg, Austria

Maria Fernanda Montoya
Monash University,
Australia

Michelle Adiwangsa
The Australian National University, Australia

Thomas Biedermann
The Australian National University, Australia

Prof. Chris Danta
The Australian National University, Australia

Contact

For any question or inquiry about this workshop please contact josh.andres@anu.edu.au  or vincent.vanrheden@plus.ac.at