ABOUT

The Critical Anatomies Lab conducts Design Research on Health Equity, Community Well-being, and Emerging Technologies. We ask about the methods, tools and community-building strategies we need to design healing experiences, services and systems that advance goals of social and transformative justice.

Conversations

On our YouTube channel, we will be uploading conversations with people whose work/practice/ideas relate to our projects in the lab, as well as tutorials for various corporeal practices....

Coming soon.... Stay tuned...

We work across three areas:

Anatomical ontology: We study how visual representations of the body, and their technological mediations, shape our understanding, valuation, and imagination of bodies, and how they influence medical knowledge and healing practices. As action-reserach, we experiment with the affordances of body images to reimagine our connections to land, human and non-human life.

Community-based healthcare models: Care and caring are central to the work in the lab, especially when practices of care enter institutions, financial structures and regulations. We document, analyze and actively engage with healthcare models rooted in community care. We collaborate with Public Health organizations, grassroots organizers, community-based doulas and community acupuncture clinics to devise spaces for critical analysis and creative expression.

Emerging technologies in healthcare: Through a monthly reading group, we foster critical understanding of the role of emerging technologies in shaping labor relations around care.