Co-Healing: Caring with each other's bodies
An embodied medical experience for restoring microbial imbalance - with each other
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Graduation Show - Social Design
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Graduation Show - Social Design
Co-Healing by Serina Tarkhanian
Ronald Smits/Design Academy Eindhoven
Co-Healing reimagines how communities can enact modes of care to prevent and treat multiple illnesses by positioning the microbial body – the microorganisms that live with, on and in us – as the primary locus of care and people as co-producers of sensorial medicine.
The project materializes a radical vision for health through the concept of a microbial bathhouse structured around a series of tools for safely exchanging microbes from different parts of the body. By enacting rituals of microbial grooming, co-healers ac