Virtual Colloquium: Nadia Campo Woytuk – Designing Menstrual Care as a Feminist Posthuman Practice

In this week’s session of the Virtual Colloquium we will have Nadia Campo Woytuk as our guest. Nadia’s talk is titled “Designing Menstrual Care as a Feminist Posthuman Practice”.

In this talk I will show my past and current design work around menstrual care, which critiques the current norms of intimate technologies and works towards reimagining more embodied and feminist interactions. I draw from the call made by feminist technoscience and feminist posthumanities to resist the dominance of vision as the main pathway towards bodily knowledge (predominantly through screen-based interactions), and instead center the sense of touch when designing these technologies. I will also present the case of Biomenstrual, a design project that weaves together theory and practice, speculating on how intimate bodily materials such as menstrual blood might be reconsidered beyond waste as they entangle more-than-human bodies.

Nadia Campo Woytuk‘s work focuses on critical and intersectional feminist design of technologies for menstrual health and intimate care. She has led and contributed to projects involving new media art, textiles, software art, and postcolonial computing. Her current work explores touch and sense-making of the intimate body and the social and environmental ecologies it entangles. 

For the speakers list of this semester and for information on registration, please have a look here.