Areoecology - Dave Lynch

Situated Encounters

Situated civic encounters focus on developing shared visual language and cultural strategy within real social and environmental contexts. The work operates alongside communities, institutions, and landscapes where uncertainty, risk, and habit are already present. Rather than delivering messages or outcomes, these projects shape conditions for collective sense-making. Meaning emerges through collaboration, negotiation, and long-term presence.

Embodied Systems

These projects explore how bodily signals shape attention, agency, and behaviour in real time. Physiological data is encountered through experience rather than optimisation or control. The work stays open to ethical tension and uncertainty. Meaning develops as participants feel how influence operates through bodies, feedback, and shared conditions.

Live Experiments

Live experiments are situations where performance, participation, and systems unfold together in real time. They create temporary systems shaped by presence, attention, and response, allowing ideas to be tested in motion. Rather than presenting outcomes, the work stays open to uncertainty. Meaning emerges as people move from observing a system to becoming part of it.

Touching Sleep

Touching Sleep creates shared encounters with personal sleep data, treating sleep as a lived, uneven condition rather than a neutral metric. The work brings bodies, care, and vulnerability into contact through collective experience. Instead of extracting insight, the project holds data relationally. Meaning emerges through attention and responsibility, as participants recognise sleep as something shaped by social, material, and emotional conditions.

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Situated Encounters

Embodied Systems

Live Experiments

Touching Sleep