Lalehan Kahyaoğlu & Florentina Abendstein

What can rocks teach us about time? What are queer temporalities? And how can they help us make sense of time in a different way?

Through sensory exploration and guided reflection, we question dominant ideas about knowledge, intelligence, and time. Drawing on the theory of queer temporalities by Sara Ahmed and Jack Halberstam the session invites participants to reflect on their own milestones through geological processes of formation rather than along normative life trajectories.

Join us in exploring how we can center more than human knowledge in the perception of time.

About

We are Lale and Flori, two eco-social designers, based in Austria and Bolzano researching queering as a method to foster inclusive communities beyond the human.

Lalehan Kahyaoglu is a designer. Their thesis project Neuroqueer Play is an experimental, community-oriented eco-social design project that brings together play, art, and collaborative workshops to explore

neurodivergent ways of sensing, thinking, and relating.

Flori Abendstein is an artist and designer focusing their research on queerness in multispecies. They aredeveloping creative community formats exploring new perspectives on queerness in ourselves and society with the aim to works towards more inclusive, imagined futures.