Short description: Translating embodied knowledge into actionable visual‑auditory cues can help convey essential signals and assist in practically applying and adapting them to social innovation design contexts. Exploring an art‑based design‑thinking approach to bridging the gap in discerning non‑verbal expressions through performative art, the lecture examines how brief ASMR‑style sound cues, combined with performative gestures and tactile artefacts, foster empathetic exchange, deep listening and intersubjective understanding.
Bio: Julia FROMM is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. She is the recipient of the prestigious DOC Fellow from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her current research focus is on tactile design for adolescents with chronic pain. She is the chair of the Executive Board at WUK-Werkstätten und Kulturhaus (cultural centre) where she maintains her studio. Her transversal artwork spans video, design, sound, objects and performance. Through these media she explores presence, vulnerability and transformation, probing the tension among the body, its fragments and surrounding space. She has performed, exhibited and presented in Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain and Tunisia.
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