Co-Healing und Health Commmons in der Bioregion Karlsruhe
Designforschungs-Workshop mit Serina Tarkhanian
Folkfarma ist ein einwöchiger Workshop, der darauf angelegt ist, neue Konzepte von Gesundheit und Wohlbefinden zu entwickeln und umzusetzen. Dabei werden Gesundheit und Wohlbefinden als restaurative und wechselseitige Beziehung zur Umgebung gedacht. Die Teilnehmenden werden eine kritische und regenerative Perspektive auf Materialien im Kontext von Gesundheit und Pharmakologie gewinnen und untersuchen, wie Fragen der Biopolitik und der Dekolonisierung von Fürsorge untrennbar mit lokalen Ökologien verbunden sind. Durch experimentelle Praktiken wie restaurative Nahrungssuche, DIY/DIT-Produktionstechniken, die in traditionellen Heilpraktiken verwendet werden, und durch die Erkundung ihrer eigenen körperlichen Beziehungen zur Umgebung werden die Teilnehmenden eingeladen, neue Wege des Folkfarming zu entwickeln, die auf Elemente der Bioregion Karlsruhe fokussieren.
In den Workshops werden die Teilnehmenden eingeladen, sich als aktive Co-Forschende zu verstehen und gemeinsam Visionen für Co-Healing und Health Commons zu entwickeln. Neben praktischen Aktivitäten, Kurzvorträgen und Besichtigungen vor Ort werden sich die Lehrmethoden auf das verkörperte Forschen und Lernen konzentrieren, das die Workshop-Leiterin im Sinne eines "embodied training" als Designforscherin selbst entwickelt hat. Die von den Teilnehmenden realisierten Arbeiten werden als integraler Bestandteil der eigenen Designforschung der Workshop-Leiterin in das Kapitel einer Folkfarmacopeia einfließen, welches die einzigartigen Visionen der Teilnehmenden rund um das Thema Co-Healing in ihren Bezügen zu Karlsruhe und der Bioregion zeigt.
Co-Healing and Health Commons in the Karlsruhe Bioregion
Design Research Workshop with Serina Tarkhanian
Folkfarma is a weeklong workshop that seeks to imagine and materialize new definitions of what health and well-being might be when it is thought of as a restorative and mutually beneficial relationship to the land. Participants will gain a critical and regenerative perspective on material culture within the context of health and pharmacology, examining how issues surrounding the biopolitics and decoloniality of care are inextricably linked to local ecologies. Through experimental practices such as restorative foraging, DIY/DIT production techniques used in traditional healing practices, and by examining their own bodily relationships to the environment, participants will be invited to create new ways of folkfarming that focus on elements of the Karlsruhe bioregion.
In the workshop participants will be invited to position themselves as active co-researchers and to co-produce visions for co-healing and health commons. Alongside hands-on activities, short lectures, and site visits, instructional methodologies will focus on embodied researching and learning, referred to as ‘embodied trainings’, which stems from the facilitator’s own practice of making-with embodied knowledges. As an integral part of the facilitator’s own design research inquiry into the aforementioned themes, the work generated by participants will help form a chapter of a Folkfarmacopeia, showcasing participants’ unique visions around co-healing relationships to Karlsruhe and its environments.
This sculptural object playfully uses the act of cutting into the sheet and moving the resulting flaps over each other. A tensioned 3D Volume creates. Combining round and rectangular lines.
This sculptural object playfully uses the act of cutting into the sheet and moving the resulting flaps over each other. A tensioned 3D Volume creates. Combining round and rectangular lines.
The "Frosch" is a phenomenon in sheet metal processing where tension is created in the material through deformation. By applying force against this tension, the sheet metal "springs" back with an audible snap into an opposite shape. The plate series utilizes this effect to create a concave form that serves as a plate or bowl.
The "Frosch" is a phenomenon in sheet metal processing where tension is created in the material through deformation. By applying force against this tension, the sheet metal "springs" back with an audible snap into an opposite shape. The plate series utilizes this effect to create a concave form that serves as a plate or bowl.
Pendant Lamp uses inward folds to tension the flat sheet into a convex shape. The inward folds hold tight a steel wire, used to hang the obejct into the air. Recessed LEDs light the inside of the Lamp, showcasing the volume created by tension.
Pendant Lamp uses inward folds to tension the flat sheet into a convex shape. The inward folds hold tight a steel wire, used to hang the obejct into the air. Recessed LEDs light the inside of the Lamp, showcasing the volume created by tension.
The pendant lamp uses a folding technique that curves the edges inward, creating a soft,
rounded form. This shape supports two steel wires that suspend the lamp from the ceiling.
The exterior is blackened with linseed oil, while the interior is heat-blued, resulting in a
reflective and slightly iridescent surface inside, contrasted by the subtle, matte black finish
on the outside.
As a child, I rebuilt planes and cars I saw in movies using just folded paper and tape. Unlike store-bought toys like LEGO, paper gave me endless freedom to create any shape I imagined.
From this experience, I tried to draw inspiration—not limiting myself to what can be done in aCAD computer program but experimenting hands-on with how a sheet of paper behaves whenfolded in various ways.
To avoid using heavy industrial machines to form steel sheets, I explored different paper-folding techniques. My goal was to develop a kind of folding language I could later apply to steel, allowing me to work intuitively and efficiently.
After testing many shapes, I focused on a few that worked well and refined them further, building 1:10 scale models to better understand and improve the designs.
By using only rectangular sheets, I could reduce material waste and improve recyclability. Folded and bent shapes often result in surprisingly strong and stable objects.