Case study · 亘新

Putting clinicians, artists and researchers in one room for two days.

Beijing, November 2024. A cross-disciplinary programme on women's health, built from questions raised across the 万象更新 podcast and staged as an exhibition, a series of dialogues and a set of participatory workshops.

What it was

Three formats, one subject.

1 exhibition

Seven artists and collectives, working in painting, installation, film, text and performance.

4 dialogues

Clinicians, researchers and writers in conversation — including on trust in clinical AI.

3 workshops

Participatory art sessions led by four workshop leaders, open to the people the subject is about.

Film

Two days, in three parts.

The dialoguesCross-sector conversation between clinicians, researchers and writers.
The exhibitionSeven artists and collectives on women's health and lived experience.
The workshopsParticipatory art sessions, with clinicians and visitors in the same room.

Film and photography: Tianhao Lou

A large group in the ginkgo courtyard at 亘新, photographed from above, one attendee holding an HEC Paris signClinicians and visitors reading the curatorial wall text at the 亘新 exhibition
亘新, BeijingPhotographs: Tianhao Lou

Who made it

Named by what each partner actually did.

Cultural partners

Alliance Française Beijing and HEC Paris supported the exhibition and workshop programme.

Clinical participation

Practising specialists took part in the dialogues and the roundtables, alongside the artists and workshop leaders.

Editorial

SanLian LifeWeek, whose readership overlaps with the audience the programme was built for.

Origin

Questions raised across the 万象更新 podcast, which by then had run for several years in Chinese.

Convening

Need a room where the right people disagree?

Programme and convening design is one of the things Miso can be commissioned to run.

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