Hi I am a PhD researcher working on more-than-human ethics in biodesign and the wider biotechnological research. I work across the field of Science and Technology Studies, Design/Art and synthetic biology. More specifically, I am interested in the notion of revolt, labour and political participation from the more-than-human perspectives.
Recent Publication
Yuning Chen and Larissa Pschetz. 2024. Microbial Revolt: Redefining biolab tools and practices for more-than-human care ecologies. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 707, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3641981
Gizem Oktay, Yuta Ikeya, Minha Lee, Bahareh Barati, Youngsil Lee, Yuning Chen, Larissa Pschetz, and Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa. 2023. Designing with the more-than-human: Temporalities of thinking with care. In Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '23 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 104–106. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563703.3591462
Välk, S., Chen, Y., Dieckmann, E., & Mougenot, C. (2022). Supporting collaborative biodesign ideation with contextualised knowledge from bioscience. CoDesign, 19(2), 142–161. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2022.2138447
Workshops/Seminars/Symposiums/Updates
I feed my CHI 2024 notes into ChatGPT for a David Foster Wallace spin
Welcome to the wonderful world of HCI, where even reality is user-configurable.
Assembling rituals and attunements with the more-than-human
How might we explore multispecies co-creativity and care through ritual design? A workshop to imbue meanings and attunements in day-to-day multispecies encounterings.
The Laboratory Revolt
A creative workshop that uses Chindōgu to explore the uncooperative agency of the more-than-human others in the lab as a revolt against the current productions-dominated human-nonhuman relationships in the world of biotechnological research.
Folding time: Temporal Origami Workshop for DTE Symposium
Temporal Origami is a creative exercise that invites participants to reflect on the multiplicity of temporalities they encounter in daily life by embodying them with the complex geometries of origami…
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