Fabulation with Tides
June 14, 2026, full-day, DIS 2026, Singapore
This full-day workshop invites you to reimagine stories with tides, and to explore response‑ability to cultivate the capacity to respond among species.
Designing across species often assumes a one-way responsibility: the designer thinks, cares, and makes. But what if design takes a step back, intentionally making space for responses to unfold, to emerge in between species? We explore multispecies response-ability as a design stance: creating conditions in which living beings, shaped by and shaping tidal ecologies, can, in some sense, respond.
We will travel to Labrador Nature Reserve, one of Singapore’s natural coastlines, to spend time with the beings that respond to tides. Through on-site exploration and collaborative fabulation, we will 1) develop design approaches that resist speaking for other species, and instead ask: what would it take to stay open to responses? 2) develop open-ended guides for examining and incorporating response-ability in practice.
We warmly welcome you, from diverse backgrounds, with an interest in multispecies and interspecies communication, coastal/tidal ecologies, feminist-posthuman phenomenology, more-than-human ethics, entangled bodies, open-ended design practice, and speculative fabulation