In my Cycle: Designing Sensory Spaces for Menstrual Awareness through Soma Design
Lisa Hofer · 2025
This demonstration presents In My Cycle, an interactive installation that externalizes hormonal and emotional sensations through touch, sound, and spatial storytelling.Developed through artistic performance and soma design, the work translates lived menstrual experience into a walkable sound installation consisting of 19 suspended wooden spheres.Each sphere represents one recurring bodily sensation encountered across two decades of menstrual cycles.Through quiet interaction and embodied memory, the installation creates a shared space for self-reflection, conversation, and menstrual literacy.By engaging with feminist HCI, soma design, and critical menstruation studies, this work explores how menstrual technologies can become sites of poetic attention, public dialogue, and intimate knowledge exchange.