Adventurous Homemaking: Exploring Collaborations toward Agroecological Probabilities (2020)

Creator

Markus, Wernli

Title

Subject

Design doctorates – Design -- Exhibitions

Graduate students

Date Created

2021-06-17

Relation

PolyU Design - PhD Research Works

PolyU E-theses

Format

Photographs

Identifier

ASSD2021PHDD04P001

Is Part Of

Doctor of Philosophy

Description

This research investigates how attending to the basic needs of human bodily existence is mobilising transpersonal abilities toward integrative flourishing. Rearranging human-environment relations through the self-contracted crafting of daily life, requires courage, bodily engagement and failure tolerance. Through contemporising the co-regulating exchanges of fermentation, this study engages people’s bodyminds as biophysical agents in socio-natural ecologies which starts with their digestive byproducts—human ‘waste’, whereby human ‘waste’ becomes an integral element inside a self-contracted goal pursuit. This study evaluates self-mobilisation strategies and social buffering dynamics that assist people to commit to and prosper vis-à-vis adverse situations. A series of provocative human ‘waste’ upgrading events formulated a collective domesticity study where 22 participants participated in fermenting urine for growing edible plants and entering (biological) circulations of well-being. The dynamic tension of jointly encountered ambiguity together with the integrative goal created a failure-friendliness that was conducive to sociality, inventiveness, and rich emergence of meaning.

Collection

PolyU Design Show 2021