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July 27, 2022

In August 2022, I presented the ecological thinking framework in the context of InfraNodus tool for insight generation. InfraNodus platform has thousands of users who use it for ideation, knowledge management, and text analysis. I decided to integrate this framework directly into the tool, so it would be available to the users within their existing workflows. After the functionality was released, I also hosted a webinar where I showcased this methodology and proposed several ways to integrate it into research practice. The basic approach behind the ecological thinking framework is closely related to panarchy, embracing the iterative nature of any developmental process: a period of extensive growth is followed by stagnation, followed by release, which frees up resources for reorganization. It is a useful framework for thinking about ecological systems, particularly in the context of limited resources. In panarchy, recession and crisis are seen as an opportunity to optimize the existing...

June 21, 2022

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Mattang @ La Maison Forte | 06/2022

La Maison Forte is an organization in South France dedicated to the cultural and economic development of rural territories. They approached me in 2021 to work together on analyzing the problems and needs of the people who live in the region using the research methodology of InfraNodus, the tool that I've been developing. We decided to use InfraNodus to create cartography for new ideas and possibilities in the region. In the frame of this project, called Mattang, La Maison Forte conducted interviews with 50 inhabitants of the region. We then processed those interviews using InfraNodus to extract the main topics: what people like, the problems they experience, things that could be improved. We used the built-in structural gap detection to detect possible new ideas that we could propose back to the community based on this collective discourse — bridging the different topics that came up during conversations in new ways. As a result,...

April 1, 2022

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Press

Some press clippings and interviews published about my work....

November 24, 2021

in Presentations

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Fractal Motion Control @ Theatre de Liege | 11/2021

During our work in the frame of the EightOS project, we developed motion tracking sensors that can be used to provide live feedback to dancers and introduce more variability into their movement. In November 2021, we presented this work at the IMPACT platform at Theatre de Liege in Belgium. They provided us with a grant to develop this project further. Variability is an important aspect of EightOS practice because it makes movement and interaction more adaptive and responsive to external impulses. We practice a special type of variability, which is fractal — or self-similar — at its core: the type of changes that can be found on a small-scale and replicated on big scale and vice versa. This makes movement look very organic: small deviations in speed / intensity / amplitude are followed by occasional big shifts in dynamics. In order to make this vision reality, we developed motion-tracking sensors that operate on...

November 18, 2021

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Cross-Contextual Confluence @ Galerie Wedding | 10/2021

Curated by Isabel Lewis and Solvej Helweg Ovesen...

November 15, 2021

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EightOS x Ama @ Gropius Bau | 11/2021

In November 2021, we hosted a series of EightOS workshops in the context of Ama: Care, Repair, Healing exhibition at Martin Gropius Bau. Our objective was to explore the topics of this exhibition through touch, inviting the participants to create a participatory immersive environment for embodied learning. Every day was planned around a specific concept that approached the main topics of the exhibition from a certain perspective. Together with NSDOS, we created a generative soundscape that used our own and the participants' movements to change the sonic atmosphere in the space. This was the first time we tried our newly developed Tripod WiFi motion tracking sensors in a public setting. Our intention was to see how we can transmit ideas through physical interaction, experimenting with the concepts of care, repair, and healing — as well as the more general concepts, such as resilience and regeneration — on the level of a temporary...

April 18, 2021

in Presentations

by agent Paranyushkin