26isfam175 10.3205/26isfam175 urn:nbn:de:0183-26isfam1751 Meeting Abstract Heiss Heiss Laura L

Estudio Antimateria

author German Medical Science GMS Publishing House

Düsseldorf

610 20260612 engl This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Dieser Artikel ist ein Open-Access-Artikel und steht unter den Lizenzbedingungen der Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (Namensnennung). M0652 175 International Society for Arts and Medicine The Healing Arts – Forging Alliances of Arts & Medicine Artistic Exhibitis Abstracts Berlin 20260618 20260620 26isfam175 TextBackground: My practice examines touch as a primary modality of knowing, foregrounding the soma (The lived body as a site of perception, feeling, and meaning—your body experienced from within) as an active site of perception and meaning-making. Drawing from contemporary theories of transcorporeality and critiques of ocularcentrism, my work Braille Interstelar expands tactile communication toward speculative, interplanetary semiotics. In dialogue with concepts such as bio-signatures in astrobiology and the cultural constructedness of language, my work situates texture as both inscription and interpretation. Within today’s saturated visual culture, my work considers healing as a collective recalibration of attention. Objectives: The project aims to explore how tactile engagement can recalibrate perceptual habits shaped by visual dominance. It further investigates how 3D-printed geometries can function as a coded tactile language that invites embodied modes of understanding, while examining how sensory diversification might contribute to reconnection and the restoration of perceptual plurality. Methods: Using 3D printing as a material-semiotic tool, Braille Interstelar is developed through coded geometries and material experimentation. Theoretical frameworks from semiotics and speculative design support the construction of a hybrid language that merges scientific pattern recognition with poetic tactility. Results: The printed interfaces reveal how tactile perception can generate alternative cognitive pathways, enabling audiences to inhabit a more porous and distributed ecology of sensing. Conclusion: By approaching healing as a societal rebalancing of the sensory field, the work positions touch-based communication as a catalyst for perceptual diversity and more reciprocal relations with human and more than human worlds. 0 0 0 0