Workshop

Tokyo, Japan

Burcu Nimet Dumlu 
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Jan 2026

 

Design research has long emphasized progress, efficiency, and control, shaping how interaction with technology is imagined and practiced. This project responds by shifting attention from interaction to intra-action, exploring care as a relational and more-than-human condition rather than a human-centered value or ethical add-on. Through a speculative design workshop, the work examines how language, prompts, and vocabularies actively shape design imaginaries. Participants engaged with minimally expressive material probes alongside paired interaction and care-centered vocabularies inspired by posthuman and feminist scholarship. These engagements foreground attentiveness, mutual responsiveness, and shifting agencies between humans, technologies, and materials. Rather than offering empirical evaluation, the project reflects on the workshop outputs through visual and material articulation, tracing how alternative vocabularies can reorient design thinking toward practices of maintenance, repair, and responsibility. By questioning progress-driven paradigms, the work proposes care as an ongoing, co-emergent practice that unfolds through relationships and situated contexts.