Linking devices. LATElab methodologies for collective creation and experimentation around the diverse body

Abstract

This article collects my practical experience and learning in LATE Lab project, a citizen laboratory for collective creation and experimentation around bodies and extracorporeal devices. LATE Lab is the main project from which my research hypothesis arises, which tries to answer and inhabit from practice the question about how bodily artifacts can be an instrument to mediate and produce new links. A way of doing that allows bodies to be thought from/to embody other ways of thinking, doing, inhabiting or knowing and that does not emerge as a response to the productive or reparative function of bodies, but rather responds to the generation of new imaginaries.

Revealing the methodological keys of LATE Lab, I situate the tools, tactics, protocols, materials and methods that my practice deploys and that allow experimenting and collectively creating ways to transform the links between us and in relation to the environment. A practice that enables us to sensitively embody this question, to explore other ways of being and compose ourself with the world.