Being in Touch: Design Tools for Navigating Our Innate Human Needs in the Modern Workplace explores the relationship between touch hunger (the desire for healthy human touch) and the widening mind/body gap caused by the rise of technological communication in the creative industries. Through a focus on industrial designers and innovators working in hardware technology, it seeks to solidify the inherent role of touch in dynamic and creative thinking. As both a critique and a methodological framework, it teaches individuals to become body innovators through techniques derived from a mixture of somatic therapy, improvisation, and traditional industrial design practice. Though physically engaging workshops it creates a set of tools for creative individuals to holistically thrive.
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