Becoming Critter
Benjamin Faga (American/German, born 1986) Design Interactions Department (est. 1989) Royal College of Art (UK, est. 1837)
2010
In a set of repetitive exercises, participants are taught to walk and eat in the manner of a specific animal (including wolf, antelope, and bear), reshaping the way they interact with and perceive nature. Becoming Critter training sessions, which have been held in a number of urban parks such as Hyde Park and De Beauvoir Square in London, revolve as much around psychologically inhabiting an animal as physically recreating its movements—to emphasize, the designer says, the “subtle connections between the physical acts of eating and walking and the participants’ perception of themselves as animals.”
Category: Bodies
Tags: Mutants and Fairy Tales / Critical Design / Interactions / Pets
