Design Without Goal: Listening, Silence, and Emergence in Practice

Abstract

In a digital era that prioritises productivity and consumption, this full-day workshop invites participants to explore what lies beyond interaction through embodiment and cultivation practices for non-goal-oriented design approaches. Drawing on a plurality of relational theories, we consider ‘interactivity’ as unfolding across people, technologies, environments and affect, expanding beyond interfaces. Participants will engage in a series of exercises intended to open and prepare the body and mind, creating conditions for emergence in practice. Following a process of initiation, grounding, embodiment and practice, participants will refine their capacities for listening and resonance. Through ..