Bingqing Li

This project explores slowness as a bodily and sensory experience within an efficiency-driven digital culture. Responding to conditions of time anxiety, sensory overload, and accelerated attention shaped by mobile phones and constant information flow, the project proposes tactile interaction as a form of digital detox and temporal resistance. Rather than understanding slowness as an abstract ideal, the work reframes it as a lived rhythm that can be reactivated through touch, repetition, and material engagement. Drawing on biophilic design and practices of sensory regulation, the artefacts encourage lingering, rhythmic interaction that gradually slows perception and restores inner calm. The project comprises a series of wearable and handheld artefacts made from natural materials including eucalyptus pods, bodhi beads, and Crescentia cujete. Through carving, drilling, polishing, and cold-connection techniques, the components remain movable and responsive to touch. Texture, weight, temperature, and repetitive handling transform these objects into tools for re-perceiving time, reconnecting the body with its own pace and rhythm.