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posted on 2021-12-07, 11:17 authored by Markus Wernli, Britta BoyerThis position paper seeks to address the operational logic that created the conditions for the pandemic to take hold. Grasping the crisis as an opportunity for an anthropological inquiry across disciplines, this exploration firmly anchors design inside the social commitment required by breathing bodies and life-enabling atmospheres. By infusing the self-understanding of design with experiences and conceptions from Eastern and Western ‘breathwork’ practices the adaptation strategy in uncertainty shifts from perpetuating the status quo towards the creative reinterpretation of internal priorities. It also changes the nature of our projects, from making to enacting, from preprogrammed solutions to earthly engagement, from interfacing with inert matter to caring for living matters. Taking our universally shared breath as the resounding call for action, ‘breathful’ design is about the never-finished, perpetually opening task of persisting through bodily vigilance, diligence, and self-critical forsight for ‘knowing what to do when no one knows what to do’.
Funding
Loughborough University
History
School
- Loughborough University London
Published in
Strategic Design Research JournalVolume
14Issue
1Pages
175 - 186Publisher
UNISINOS - Universidade do Vale do Rio Dos SinosVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publisher statement
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by UNISINOS under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Publication date
2021-04-09Copyright date
2021eISSN
1984-2988Publisher version
Language
- en