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Seminar: Embodied Systems Learning through Immersive Media: Advancing SDG Innovation in Global Health

  • Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research - York University The Nick Mirkopoulos Screening Room 004ACE -4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada (map)

This one-hour seminar, led by Pravin Pillay, Creative Director of MOVE37XR, introduces the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research (DIGHR) Community to experimental methods at the intersection of planetary health, humanitarianism, and foresighting. The session blends theory, immersive experience, and dialogue to consider how immersive media can inform global health scholarship and practice.

Key Themes

  • Hyperobjects and Planetary Health: Framing climate change and other global phenomena as distributed, non-local systems that structure human and ecological futures, drawing on the 2023 Planetary Boundaries Report.

  • From Systems-Thinking to Systems-Embodiment: Exploring how datapoetic and sensory practices connect intellect (analysis), heart (emotional attunement), and hand (agency), fostering coherence across scales of action.

  • MOVE37XR Case Study: Examining the role of an emerging media research lab and creative studio in developing immersive experiences that support sense-making, empathy, and innovation in response to global challenges.Methodological Innovation

Methodological Innovation

Participants will take part in two short immersive practices :

  • A datapoetic encounter that translates ecological and health data into sensory forms.

  • An embodied listening exercise designed to cultivate relational awareness and systems-feeling.

Both exercises aim to extend conventional approaches to global health research by integrating intellectual, affective, and embodied modes of inquiry.

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