Bio-Digital Calendar: Attuning to Nonhuman Temporalities for Multispecies Understanding
Awards: Best Pictorial at ACM TEI‘24
People: Fiona Bell, Joshua Coffie, and Mirela Alistar
Year: 2022-2023
Description: We explore how actively engaging with the temporalities of a nonhuman organism can lead to multispecies understanding by designing a bio-digital calendar. The bio-digital calendar brings attention to the growth and health of kombucha SCOBY by surrounding the kombucha SCOBY to track (via sensors) and enhance (via sound) its growth. Our multisensory noticing practice of looking and listening to the calendar attuned us to new temporal rates, which destabilized our preconceived human-centered positionality and led to a more humble, decentered relationship between us and the organism.
Outcomes: ACM TEI’24 Pictorial, ACM CHI’22 Interactivity
