Urban crises are not isolated problems with clean technical fixes. In Bangkok they appear as interlocked, historically sedimented, and more-than-human wicked problems—flooding and subsidence, waste and water quality, heat and air pollution, infrastructural fragility, and the affective and political atmospheres that move with them. In using the concept of EC(h)OTONING, we focus on a practice of tuning and re-tuning to reverberations—feedback loops and resonances among infrastructures, histories, bodies, more-than-humans, possible urban futures and imaginaries.

The kick-off workshop days included intense exercises of attunement, immersion, sensory ethnography, prototyping and speculative design tasks, bringing several major themes to the light—nature as stakeholder, the persistence of inequality, and the need for ethical and governance shifts beyond technology—and giving the team a first hands-on experience of EC(h)OTONING to further build on.