Body Security

Work with us

Bring us a question.

You might be trying to change a policy. Understand an outcome you can't explain. Investigate a system that isn't producing what you expected. Or find a way for people to experience something they currently only understand on paper.

Start with the question.
We build the work around it.

Where the work starts

For now, the practice goes through one lens: food.

Food is the system most people touch three times a day, and the territory where the trace between world and body is most developed. The method is built to travel: if your question lives elsewhere, bring it anyway.

(01) Where are you coming from?

(01)

You design the system.

You design policies, infrastructures, products or environments, and need to understand what they produce beyond the outcome they were designed to achieve.

We can investigate: the systems, incentives and environments involved, their biological consequences, and where there may be leverage for change.

(02)

You deal with what the system produces.

You work with health, behaviour, attention, learning, capacity or agency, and need to understand the conditions producing the outcomes you see.

We can investigate: what happens between the environment and the body, and why individual behaviour may be only the visible end of a much larger system.

(03)

You want people to see the system differently.

You want an audience, community, organisation or institution to encounter a complex system rather than simply receive information about it.

We can build: workshops, salons, exhibitions, installations, public programmes, talks and other experiences that turn investigation into something perceptible.

(02) How it works

01 ·

You bring the question

A problem. A tension. Something that isn't adding up. It doesn't need to be fully defined.

02 ·

We investigate

We trace the systems, environments, incentives and biological processes involved. We look for what is normally invisible, and where the consequences emerge.

03 ·

We determine what the work needs to become

Sometimes that's a research investigation. Sometimes a briefing or framework. Sometimes a workshop, salon or masterclass. Sometimes an exhibition, installation or public experience. Often, it's more than one. The question determines the form.

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Underneath all of it, two kinds of work:

Lab

Research, investigation, system mapping, evidence gathering and briefings.

Studio

Workshops, salons, masterclasses, exhibitions, installations, publications and public experiences.

Lab × Studio

Some questions need both.

(03) Start a conversation

Have a question?

(01) YOU
(02) THE QUESTION

In your own words. The only good answer is an honest one.

Where are you coming from? *
(03) PRACTICAL
The shape it could take (optional)

If you already have a sense of the shape this could take, feel free to say. Otherwise, we'll figure it out together.

Timeline, constraints, deadlines, doubts, whatever's relevant.

Optional.