Making Alternatives through Design for Mediated Spiritual Practice
Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified our dependence on screen-based devices, re-shaping how we connect with one another. Motivated by a yearning for alternative and post-pandemic religious and spiritual (R/S) practice, we pursue a Research-through-Design (RtD) project, Resound, exploring mediated technospiritual connections with a UK-based Buddhist community. This pictorial depicts the complexity of (i) designing with spiritual-corporeal selves engaged in community-centred and ritualistic practices; (ii) and tangible artefacts and sonic environments being made, configured and practiced with. We reflect on this ongoing material engagement as making tangible alternatives through techno-spiritual practice.
Authors: Caroline Claisse, David Chatting, Sara Wolf, Ben Morris, Abigail C Durrant
Institutions: Newcastle University, University of Würzburg
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Award: G4927995903
OpenAlex ID: W4403530918