💫 After a long pause, it’s time to bring the #NAMHN blog series back to life — w/ energy, curiosity, and fresh voices 🔥
Lou’s new essay here: shorturl.at/Q0MFQ
👀 We’re opening the doors again — bold ideas, unexpected formats, & anything touching on #MoreThanHuman health and well-being 🐸 🍀
✨ Thrilled to share that #PortableCow has now joined — & is available for use in — the @isu_library Special Collections & University Archives @iowastateu!
www.lib.iastate.edu/news/portabl...
🔥 #PortableCow is still unfolding… stay tuned! 🐄🌈
#WellcomeTrust #ResearchCreation #ArtofConnection
#SensingWithCows #PortableCow #MoreThanHuman #DigitalFarming #Senses #CreativeResearch #MultispeciesMutualisms #FutureConversations @wellcometrust.bsky.social
Credit 📸 1: #LizHingley
Credit 📸 2: #LucyDunning w/ images from #LizHingley & @edwinmingard.bsky.social
Credit 📸 3 & 4: Me
🕸️ Looking forward to new conversations, collaborations, & evolving architectures of thought that may grow from this first encounter 🍀
✨ Heartfelt thanks to @evahaifa.bsky.social @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social & the #MultispeciesMutualisms team. I was delighted by feedback on the originality, creativity, & aesthetics of the work, an aesthetic that #LizHingley & I continue to explore & develop through our #PortableCow project 🐄📱📸✨
Invited by the @wellcometrust #MultispeciesMutualisms project & joined by inspiring colleagues from ShARC, the session sparked rich exchanges and new ideas — in a place that lets thinking happen ✨ circulate 🐝 & fly 🪽, held by an audience wonderfully attentive & engaged 🌈
💥 Last week @sheffielduni.bsky.social, I had the pleasure of presenting my ongoing work on “Sensing with cows in digitised farms” — in a truly exceptional #AnimalStudies environment 🔥
Heartfelt thanks to @evahaifa.bsky.social, @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social & the #MultispeciesMutualism team. I was delighted by feedback on the originality, creativity & aesthetics of the presentation, an aesthetic that #LizHingley & I continue to explore & develop through our #PortableCow project 🐄📱📸
Invited by @wellcometrust.bsky.social #MultispeciesMutualism project & joined by inspiring colleagues from ShARC, the session sparked rich exchanges and new ideas — in a place that lets ✨ thinking happen, 🐝 circulate & 🪽 fly, held by an audience wonderfully attentive and engaged
✨ Breath of fresh air — the #OutOfScale conference @Courtauld Institute of Art was so rich & beautifully organised!
💥 Inspiring & generous, & a unique #ArtHistory audience to introduce our #CreativeResearch & #PortableCow 🐄🔥
#OutOfScale #Miniature #CowInArtHistory
📸 PortableCow: Liz Hingley
🔥🍀Such a vibrant exchange in an inspiring setting. It was also my very first time presenting in Portuguese—a moment I won’t forget anytime soon, and one I can’t wait to experience again!
#PortableCow #SensingPractices #MoreThanHuman #Transdisciplinarity #ResearchCreation
Huge thanks to Prof. Magda dos Santos Ribeiro for the warm invitation & to all the students and staff for their curiosity, generosity, and thought-provoking questions.
What a joy & privilege to share my research on "Entangled knowledges: sensing and creating across species and disciplines" w/ the Department of Anthropology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil ✨🐄
#PortableCow #Cowveillance #HumanCowRelation #Affinities #SensingTechnologies #InternationalCollaboration #Transdisciplinarity #Cocreation #Participation #Senses #SensingPractices #Experimentation #ResearchCreation #MoreThanHuman #Cows
It is an honour to engage with such diverse, curious, and generous audiences around the world. Stay tuned, interested beings—Portable Cow is on tour and waiting for you to keep unfolding, living, and sparking new dialogues! 🍀🐮
Drawing on my ethnographic & historical fieldwork, writing experiments w/ Emily, Liz’s photographs, & our in-situ bovine sensory engagements w/ Liz, the limited-edition 3D-printed box designed by Liz & @edwinmingard.bsky.social has never stopped evolving—its contents constantly transforming.
A huge thank you to Emily Morgan & CEAH Iowa State University for welcoming us so warmly and making it possible for us to bring this work in person, first initiated with my @wellcometrust.bsky.social project and ever since continuously nurtured and reimagined with Liz Hingley.
A symposium, two sensory workshops, an unboxing on the impressive brutalist walls of a College of Design gallery, and more-than-human co-creations—the week was unsettling, beautiful, and enlightening!
Scorching welcome, freezing temperatures, dazzling horizon—we are still buzzing from all the exchanges and heading home with minds fired up with ideas and shared experiences 🔥❄✨