A 90-minute embodied meet-up on being-at-CHI
We invite HCI researchers, designers, artists, and practitioners to join a 90-minute embodied meet-up at CHI 2026 exploring embodiment and more-than-human entanglements through lived, bodily experience.
While fourth-wave HCI increasingly engages with bodies, power, and more-than-human relations, these discussions often remain abstract. This meet-up offers a different approach: centring participants’ own embodied states as sites of reflection, inquiry, and resistance.
Through rotating, facilitated stations inspired by embodied design, participants will engage in gentle activities such as drawing, crafting, sensing, moving, and reflecting together.
No prior experience with embodied methods is required. You may participate in ways that feel right to you.
Participants will leave with a felt sense of relationality,
new connections, and inspiration for future collaboration.
Come as you are. Bring your body.
This meet-up foregrounds participants’ bodies and the spaces they occupy, reminding us that research is always grounded in situated corporeality and shared connectedness.
A welcome and grounding exercise centres participants in their embodied experience of being at CHI.
A shared embodied activity involving mirroring and relational movement, followed by reflections and imagining next steps together.
All meet-ups are free and open to anyone with a CHI conference registration. No separate registration required.
Diotima Bertel
Quynh Nguyen
Anna Blumenkranz
Julia Himmelsbach
Simone Kriglstein
Bojana Nikolovska
Maria Normark
Dorothé Smit
Beatrix Wais-Zeichmann
Yoko Akama