108th metaPhorest Seminar

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025, 19:00–21:00

108th metaPhorest Seminar by Yuning Chen

This event will be primarily in English, but questions and comments in Japanese are also welcome.

For the next metaPhorest Seminar on April 23, we are pleased to welcome Yuning Chen, an emerging biodesign researcher and artist based in Edinburgh, UK.

Date and Time/Location

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025, 19:00–21:00 Waseda University Research Facility for Advanced Biomedical Sciences (TWIns), 3rd Floor, Seminar Room 2 https://maps.app.goo.gl/Wy23SqPPMo3P7V8JA

ONLINE

This seminar can also be held online. Zoom Link

"More-than-human Revolt and Labour Provenance in a Synthetic Biology Lab"

Chen's work critically examines microbes, synthetic biology research, laboratory tools, experimental organisms, and the labor ecologies that sustain them. Drawing on perspectives from Science and Technology Studies (STS), anthropology, and critical theory, she combines speculative design, theater, and other creative methodologies to develop provocative and innovative forms of expression.
She is currently a PhD candidate in Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh and is visiting Japan in connection with an international conference on Human-Computer Interaction. We are delighted to have this opportunity to host her at metaPhorest.
The lecture will be given in English. Simultaneous interpretation will not be available, but questions in Japanese are welcome.