Working Bodies and Technology

How are our bodies being used in our work?

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How do sensing and perceiving collide with work?

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What role does the smelling, tasting, moving body play as more jobs are being turned over to machines?

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How can we use the embodied ability to taste, touch, smell, and move through space to make better workplaces for ourselves and others? 

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Bodies were once the computers and machines that drove the world. The twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have upended all that with its new technologies. This Lab asks how sensing, perceiving and working collide. Taking Food and Movement as our core cases, this Lab seeks to reveal contemporary deficiencies and potential solutions to social questions that include intersections with inequity and erasure. A chef’s coat is required as students and faculty will engage in workshops, readings, and collaborative creative projects, along with hands-, mouth-, nose-, and feet-on activities in a small exploratory environment that connects art with science.