INTRA – Designing Embodied Human-Data IntraActions

Intra project explores how embodied experience of data can occur on, within and through the body.

Intra project aims at going beyond the visual and tangible data representations and explores embodied experience of data which occurs on, within and through the body. Drawing on the latest theories in post-humanist and new materialism, the project uses the term “intra-action” – coined by Barad (2007)- instead of interaction, representing a dynamic system of things participating in action with each other. Barad’s concept of intra-action moves the agency from being an individual and dependent thing towards being co-created in a relation of interdependent entities. Starting from the intra-action concept, this project investigates new forms of designing relationalities within the world that is continuously altered, enhanced and augmented with digital technologies. The project follows a research-through design methodology becoming a basis to debate, critique and stimulate new visions for human-data intraActions.