Event

MFA Design for Social Innovation brings together embodied researcher-practitioners and design creatives to discuss pollinating the field of social innovation with body-informed frameworks and methods.

The gathering will be seeded by personal questions emerging across individual lives, then pollinated by a rotational series of experiential sharing from embodied researchers and practitioners on their language, technique or modality. Collaborative design pods will constellate around shared questions, and then these pods will engage in a short burst of collaborative creativity to remix the embodiment methods and design experimental social rituals that invite the collective healing we need.

Engagement in design pods is an invitation for all attendees—including presenters—to play and build relationships and co-mentorship among innovative embodied researchers, practitioners and designers.

The below invited practitioners are drawn from DSI Designer in Residence Kimberly Tate’s network across somatics, contemporary movement, martial arts, anthropology, neuroscience, hip hop and diasporic ritual:

• Andrew Suseno, Moving Rasa, relational somatics educator
• Kristen Cabildo, Chrysalis Kali Collective, martial arts instructor and personal trainer
• Akim Funk Buddha, international performance artist, director, choreographer, composer, educator and mentor
• Abou Farman, The New School/Shipibo Conibo Center, artist and professor of anthropology
• Alessandra N.C. Yu, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, PhD student in neuroscience
• Jana Lynne Umipig, Center for Babaylan Studies/El Puente, artist and cultural organizer
• Ljuba Castot, Krtv Kulture, movement artist