"Perturbant Fluids" workshop aims to enhance and disseminate bodily autonomy and rethink possible relationships with the "perturbing" entities that embody us. It is part of ongoing research of radical optical consensus at 100x and 250x, through a commoning hack of the boundaries between what has been labelled for a long time as strictly internal or external to the human body.
During this workshop participants will be involved in the discovery of scientific protocols and tools to redefine the way we can contribute and redesign the narrative around science. By an immersive experience in analysing body fluids such as tears, we will create a shared repository of images of their crystallisation ("stagograms": from the Greek "stagón", drop and "grámma", picture) and explore different interpretations of their pattern promoting collaborative inquiry practices.

Zoe Romano is a craftivist, digital strategist and lecturer focused on social innovation, women in tech, technology, open design. She graduated in Philosophy at the University of Milan, worked for several years in digital communication and tech, developed her social skills as media-hacktivist on precarity, material and immaterial labor in the creative industries. She worked for Arduino as digital strategist from 2013 to 2017 and then co-founded WeMake Makerspace in 2014. She’s now a consultant on R&D, teaches courses in various organisations and collaborates on eu-funded digital social innovation projects. She takes part in research/activism activities and develops projects around e-textiles and digital fabrication in different contexts. She’s the co-founder of OBOT.

The workshop is free of charge.
Duration: 3 hours.

SUPSI
Dipartimento ambiente costruzione e design
Laboratorio di microbiologia applicata
FabLab Laboratorio di fabbricazione digitale