1. Sensory micro-research

Each group draws one card from the Sensory Channels Deck of Cards, e.g., magnetoreception, ultraviolet vision, vibration detection.

Briefly investigate:

• Which species already perceive through this channel?

• What kind of world becomes accessible through this sense?

• What rhythms, textures, scales, or relations are foregrounded?

Key question: What happens when humans begin to sense this way?

Use visual search tools (e.g., iNaturalist) or shared documents to collect:

• Three real-world examples or facts about species using this channel

• One speculative hypothesis or question about its emergence in humans

2. Designing the co-transformation

Speculate on how this new channel manifests within human experience:

• How does everyday life shift — in language, emotion, architecture?

• What other species become perceptible, and with what consequences?

• Which institutions or systems of power are reorganised?

Examples:

• Echolocation reshapes urban spatial organisation

• Electroreception disrupts human-infrastructure interactions

• UV sensitivity reorients aesthetic, ritual, or communicative norms

Prompt: You are not just sensing differently — you are becoming other.

3. Writing the testimony

Compose a ~300-word speculative text from a “transformed human” perspective — a voice already hybridised by the new sensory channel.

Choose a narrative format:

• A letter to someone who hasn’t yet sensed this way

• A diary entry from a transformed habitat

• A political or spiritual declaration from a perceptive community

• A fragment of intergenerational oral storytelling

Your text should express not only perceptual but also affective, relational, or political transformations.

Avoid literal technoscientific jargon. Let language bend to accommodate new sensations.

4. Shared reading and discussion

In groups (3–4 people), read aloud and reflect together:

• What new ways of storytelling emerge with this sensory shift?

• Which previously invisible beings or signals become vivid?

• Which human forms, habits, or concepts dissolve or transform?