About this Event
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 We’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.
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Kimberly Tate (she/they) is an architectural designer, embodied design researcher–practitioner, and culture builder whose work bridges Leyte, Philippines and Lenapehoking/Brooklyn, New York. She is the founder of Bambulawan, a bamboo architectural craft and design-build studio rooted in Burauen, Leyte, and the creator of DANCITECTURE, a spatial ritual that uses contemplative somatic inquiry within improvised tape labyrinths to honor ancestors, transmute grief, and restore joy.
As a mother, community builder, artist, storyteller, capoeirista and student of Filipino martial arts, Kimberly approaches design as an embodied social and cultural practice grounded in our responsibility as stakeholders in the worlds we shape and inherit.
Kimberly is faculty at Parsons School of Design, a design educator with the AIANY Center for Architecture, and created the Embodied Design Collaboratory as Designer in Residence with the SVA Design for Social Innovation program.
Her work invites us to move, sense, imagine, and build from the intelligence of our bodies and lineages while co-dreaming futures that build balance and belonging between homeland and diaspora.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Prime Produce, 424 West 54th Street, New York, United States
USD 60.00
