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Biomenstrual

Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard & Nadia Campo Woytuk

Tags

Design Research Speculative Design Interactive Design

Geographic location

Sweden

Norway

Year

2021

Description

Biomenstrual is a collection of biomaterial experiments, rituals, and spells for imagining, designing and practicing menstrual care beyond the human body. The project explores designing for non-anthropocentric, ecofeminist practices of human menstrual care. We focus on how menstrual products are made, used, and discarded, with a focus on the material waste generated both by the body (menstrual blood, mucus, and tissue) and by the products (a wide range of organic and non-organic materials such as cotton and plastics).

Biography

Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, PhD (she/her), is a feminist, interaction designer and HCI researcher. She explores feminist and speculative design of digital technologies for health and wellbeing, including menstrual, sexual and reproductive health. She is curious about the materiality of the human body and its relation with socio-technical-environmental ecologies.