Selected Projects
As an interdisciplinary social practice facilitator, I design participatory experiences that explore presence, perception and human connections across cultural contexts.
Sparking Social Connections
My practice investigates how presence, attention and embodied awareness shape communication, identities and sense of belonging to improve wellbeing in society.
Rather that producing objects, I work with share moments and lived experiences:
Facilitated meaningful social encounters
Presence-based facilitation
Somatic awareness
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What is Happiness (Upcoming)
with Tngl Studio
In order to combat loneliness in the capital, Tngl Studio and I are creating offline exploration for participants. We are diving deeper into the topic of Happiness by preparing a set of questions for participants to ask each other.
We are creating encounteres that foster conversation and friendship.
Photo credit: Tngl Studio
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At Ease with Stranger
with Starling
Starling is a pop singer with empowering songs. I designed, curated and emceed the program for her concert as well as the set up.
The sofa setting created comfort, just making audience feel at home.
Then, audience was invited to introduce themselves on their roles (beyond their job) to their neighbours. The atmosphere became lighter and bubbly.
After Starling’s performance, I interviewed Starling on the other end of the spectrum of empowerment.
Participants were delighted that the concert was not a typical one, and how refreshing it was to talk with strangers.
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Vulnerable Talk
with Anthropologie
On Valentine’s Day/Galentine’s Day, Anthropologie organized a dinner for their female community members. I joined different dinner tables with two aims: Fostering friendship among 1. existing and 2. new friends.
My conversation with participants followed a framework, enable them to open up on their emotions towards self-compassion
Friends got to understand their friends deeper.
To promote anchoring, I hand-written personalized self-compassion prompt so this conversation continued as learnings.