Embodied Design Lab for Future Ancestors

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Explore PLAY as embodied imagination—co-dreaming intergenerational futures through movement, design, and care with Kimberly Tate.
Embodied Design Lab for Future Ancestors is a participatory workshop exploring design and imagination through the body. Using gentle movement, simple materials, and collaborative exploration, we’ll experiment with how futures are shaped through sensation, relationship, and choice—not just ideas.

Guided by Kimberly Tate, an architectural designer and embodied design practitioner, this lab draws inspiration from Filipino childhood games, bamboo ecologies, and lineage-based ways of making. Rather than planning or problem-solving in a conventional sense, we’ll practice embodied inquiry—noticing how posture, gesture, pacing, and proximity influence what feels possible.

This is not a lecture or critique space. Design becomes a lived process of testing, adjusting, and responding together—grounded in care for future generations and the worlds we’re already shaping.

No design or movement experience is required. You’re welcome to participate through movement, making, observing, or conversation, with curiosity and adaptability guiding the process.

What You’ll Do
* gentle movement and sensory exploration
* playful design prompts using simple materials
* individual and collective imagination practices
* reflection on responsibility, ancestry, and future-making

Accessibility & Care
* no design or movement background required
* all movement and making is optional and adaptable
* seated participation, observation, and rest are welcome
* emphasis on choice, care, and listening to the body
* This is a non-performative space—there is no “right” way to participate.

Who This Is For
This lab may resonate if you’re interested in:

• embodied approaches to design and imagination
• ancestry, lineage, and intergenerational thinking
• playful, relational ways of world-building
• slowing down to sense what futures want to emerge
• All bodies, backgrounds, and levels of experience are welcome.

Part of Rasa Labs
This session is part of Rasa Labs, a series of embodied workshops by Moving Rasa exploring culture, creativity, and connection through different mediums. Each lab stands alone. Click on “more information” to learn more.