Health Information Ecologies: An Arts-based and Multisensory Approach
Vaughan Wozniak‐O’Connor, Megan Catherine Rose, Deborah A. Lupton · 2023
This half-day workshop explores the intersection of humancomputer interaction, creative research methods, more-than-human theory and health information.We will use hands-on activities to delve into the entanglements of human health and planetary health through a more-than-digital perspective.We seek to expand the notion of 'health information' well beyond that of the digitised systems and invite participants to consider the diverse array of human and non-human agents that contribute to our understanding of health and wellbeing.We aim to deepen participants' connections with their bodies and ecosystems, and in so doing, inspire new ideas for designing for human and planetary health. BACKGROUNDThis half-day workshop explores the intersection of humancomputer interaction, creative research methods, more-than-human theory and health information.In the workshop we will delve into the entanglements of human health and planetary health through a more-than-digital perspective.We seek to expand the notion of 'health information' well beyond that of the digitised systems for generating, archiving and processing digital data and invite participants to consider the diverse array of human and non-human agents that contribute to our understanding of health and wellbeing.We aim to deepen participants' connections with their bodies and the natural environment and attune them to their role as custodians of planetary health.The workshop activities will prompt participants to consider their role in what we term 'health information ecologies' [24,32] and how they learn about their bodies