KIN KITS:

The DIPLOPIC LENS

Personal Ecological Attunement Device (PEAD)

“All living beings emerge from and make their lives within multispecies communities…life cannot arise and be sustained in isolation…becoming is always becoming-with.” E. Kirksey

The Diplopic lens is the first prototype in the ongoing Kin Kits project- an exploration into practical speculative devices for ecological attunement.

Offering the wearer an opportunity to reconfigure their awareness of the biosphere and their role within it, the portable device produces a diplopic (double vision) effect for the wearer, causing the world to be reconfigured into a series of forced assemblages.

By literally blurring borders, the Diplopic Lens repositions and disperses the human, offering new perspectives as the wearer is met with a world of entanglement, where borders between bodies are blurred and the interconnected nature of all life is affirmed.

The elongated shape prevents the wearer from perceiving their own body unless in relation to another, providing an accurate encounter with a multiplicitous ecological world in which the human is only one of many valued, agentic participants.

This intimate, sensory and imaginative experience is designed to provoke curiosity for more-than-human worlds and asks:

What practices are needed to conjure equitable, just and inclusive ecological futures?

How do we move perception away from the more-than-human as resource, and turn towards an awareness of non-human agency?

What could Personalised Ecological Attunement Devices (PEAD) offer towards achieving a future of co-existence?

In 2021 the Diplopic lens was a finalist in the Environmental Art & Design Prize and was exhibited at Manly Art Gallery & Museum in NSW.