Praxis! #1: Embodied and Experiential Learning, Making, and Pedagogy
A gathering for educators, designers, researchers, and creative practitioners exploring learning as an embodied, reflective, and experiential practice.
Praxis! is an intimate symposium-lab that brings together thinkers and makers who believe learning and teaching are lived experiences, not mechanical information delivery.
This is a space for educators and creative practitioners who want to reconnect teaching with curiosity, presence, and sense-making especially in an era shaped by technology and AI.
What You’ll Experience
This symposium opens by grounding us in the fundamental systems that shape learning and experience — across sense, body, mind, and environment.
We then move into practice-based research and making as ways of knowing, doing, and teaching.
Agenda
1:00 - 1:10 Presentation for Praxis!
1:10 - 1:30 Introduction / Community Agreement
1:30 - 2:30 Core Ideas + Discussion
2:30 - 3:30 Workshop + Discussion
You will leave with:
New language to describe your teaching/learning philosophy
Awareness of your internal learning system
Tools for reflective and embodied pedagogy
An expanded network of thoughtful educators and makers
Renewed clarity and inspiration for your practice
About Facilitators
Binna Lee (she/her) is a designer, researcher, and educator whose work connects interaction design, psychology, philosophy, and immersive media. She has 19 years of teaching experience and currently teaches at Parsons School of Design, where her courses explore systems thinking, interaction, and experiential design.
Her creative practice examines how perception, embodied cognition, and emotion form within social, digital and spatial environments. She leads the multidisciplinary group Team Echo and is an internationally recognized designer and speaker contributing to global conversations on design ethics in XR and human–computer interaction (HCI).
Binna co-authored the XRSI Child Safety Initiative (COPPA 2.0), served as a reviewer for SIGGRAPH Asia XR, and was invited by Aarhus University to present on human-centered design and HCI.
Munus Shih (he/they) is a Taiwanese Minnan-Hakka creative coder, designer, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY (Lenapehoking). As an Assistant Professor of Critical Technology at Pratt Institute, they teach and research the critical histories of technology, experimental publishing, and open-source practices.
Munus’s work moves across code, design, and community organizing, from installation, workshops to co-organizing SpOnAcT!, a Taiwanese learning community dedicated to collaborative study and critical making, they explore questions of identity, decoloniality, and solidarity through custom tool-building. Their projects including p5.zine, Syllabus (Subject to Change), and Duty Free have been supported by NEW INC x New Museum, the Taiwanese Hakka Affairs Council, and the Open Source Art Contributors Conference, with talks and workshops presented at NYU ITP, Processing Foundation, SVA, Typographics and Cooper Union.