91
Followers
25
Following
12
Posts
N/A
Reels
1
Highlights
10/2
Photos/Videos in last 12
Bio
[ @___candelag & @vrschon ]
-
Avg likes
-
Avg comments
-
Engagement
0.8/wk
Posting
Likes and comments are still being collected for this account. Check back shortly.
Recent posts
Welcome to our Ongoing Practice
Victoria Rodriguez Schön is a designer and researcher interested in how futures are imagined, narrated and materialised through design, fashion and culture.
Candela Guyot works between design, philosophy, communication and creative strategy. Her practice spans research, storytelling and visual communication, moving between conceptual inquiry and applied contexts.
02 Jun 2026
Ongoing Practice
Ensayo para una telaraña
Freeform bead weaving. Stone and raising beads
ReadingMaterial explores reading as a material and collective practice. For its first edition, a shared reading of Jorge Luis Borges’s poem -Cosas- became the starting point for different interpretations, processes, and ways of making.
Exercise N1_Borges_Paris
Paris, July 2026
Photo credits @abel_carcamo @lehodesosa
15 Sep 2026
This year’s Design Institute began from a philosophical proposition: to live is to design.
What does it mean to conceive life itself as a designing activity? And if living is already a form of design, might philosophy itself be understood as a species of design?
Over the course of a week in Olympiada, Greece, the Institute pursued these questions through fieldwork, intensive studios, lectures, community engagement, and a final exhibition. But the proposition also forced us to turn the inquiry back onto the Institute itself: what kind of institution is capable of sustaining this mode of investigation?
This question became increasingly difficult to separate from the problem of living design. Inspired in part by the long history of radical experiments in architectural education, the 2026 Design Institute treated its own institutional form as something to be investigated rather than assumed. If living design concerns the ways organisms, environments, technologies, and communities continually make and remake the conditions of their existence, then the conditions under which we study these processes cannot simply remain in the background.
Living design also means inquiring into the designs that make inquiry possible.
Institutional designs. Geopolitical designs. Biophysical designs. Pedagogical designs. And the forms of collective life through which speculative research might sustain itself otherwise.
These were some of the questions that preoccupied us at SMR’s 2026 Design Institute in Greece, and that continue to shape what the Institute is becoming.
11 Sep 2026
This is part of an ongoing research into the rock as both material and design problem.
The rock enters the same environment we use to produce objects, systems and simulations. Through scans, meshes, polysurfaces, texture maps and technical drawings, it is translated into a workflow usually dedicated to control form.
We are interested in what happens during this translation. Every reconstruction, measurement and annotation produces a slightly different version of the rock.
We have always been intrigued by the rock as a basic unit of nature, perhaps even its archetype.
The project began with a question about the limits between nature and artifice. For designers, this is not a distant concern since design often operates by turning materials, landscapes and living systems into models, representations and tools.
02 Jun 2026
(no caption)
10 Jun 2026
We are happy to share [ExerciseN1_Borges_Paris] - the first edition of @readingmaterial_ taking place in Paris this July.
ReadingMaterial is a series of collective exercises unfolding across cities, exploring what happens when a text leaves the page. Each edition begins with a shared reading and invites participants to respond to it through their own practice.
Follow along for updates and future editions: A new author, a new city, each time.
_
Estamos felices de compartir [ExerciseN1_Borges_Paris], la primera edición de @readingmaterial_
ReadingMaterial es una serie de ejercicios colectivos que se desarrolla en distintas ciudades y que explora lo que ocurre cuando un texto excede sus páginas. Cada edición comienza con una lectura compartida e invita a los participantes a responder través de su propia práctica.
14 Jul 2026
The Aesthetic Continuity Department presents its instructional video for all Units.
Across lectures, performances, and collective exercises, Planet B explored the friction between nature and artifice, care and control, the given and the constructed. It staged design’s impulse to render life operational through technique, and tested how far experience can be translated into instruction: how even affect might be scripted, performed, and optimized.
02 Jun 2026
We spent a week at the Design Summer School of the School of Materialist Research in Olympiada 2025, surrounded by designers, researchers, philosophers, artists, and creatives.
Philosophy operated as a device for opening questions while design revealed its tendency to stabilize, define briefs, and move quickly toward solutions. Our contribution unfolded as a performance within this tension.
It began in a classroom with a clinical display of “perfect specimens” from nature: rocks, flowers, sticks, carefully extracted from their context and arranged as if under a forensic gaze. Taken out of the living world and placed into an artificial system, they became material for a speculative exercise, the reproduction of Planet A under the premise that if it looks the same, it is the same.
-
Pictures by Tom Marriot
02 Jun 2026
Rock Ontology began during the Design Summer School of the School of Materialist Research, around the guiding theme nature / artifice reimagined.
As designers, we are constantly translating the world into representations and instructions. We scan, classify, measure, optimize and reproduce. But where exactly does nature end and artifice begin?
To explore this question, we started with what felt like the simplest possible object: a rock.
The project grew from a persistent question: what is a rock? Is it its form, its texture, its geological history, its use, or the meanings projected onto it? Can a rock remain the same once it has been photographed, scanned, archived, or reconstructed in CAD?
Through field observations, found stones, scans, technical drawings, mappings and speculative exercises, Rock Ontology follows the different lives a rock acquires as it moves through design processes.
The project uses the rock as a way to investigate how design relates to the natural world -and how, in the act of understanding it, we inevitably begin to transform it.
02 Jun 2026
Instructions to smell of a flower:
1. Scout the sorrowndings, select the perfect flower
2. The chosen flower must work as a memory transport, it must make you feel an emotion that is 40% nostalgia, 30% déjà vu, and 30% untranslatable
3. Bend at the hips, not the knees; flowers appreciate elegance
4. Inhale once (not twice, the second breath is considered rude)
5. Option 1: Do a Little drawing of the emotional trip activated while inhaling
Option 2: Write a 3-line poem to illustrate what you felt
Within the fictional framework of the Aesthetic Continuity Department, participants were assigned to Rock, Stick, and Flower Units, trained through protocols, manuals, and assessment systems to reproduce nature through absurd precision. Each unit framed a different mode of engaging with the natural, endurance and placement (rock), affordance and speculation (stick), affect and memory (flower). Together, they operated as minimum viable versions of “nature”, its smallest legible carriers, reduced to properties that could be instructed, modeled, and reproduced.
The Flower Unit became the most performative of these translations. What begins as an embodied, almost unthinkable gesture (picking up a flower, smelling it) was broken into sequences, scores, and observational templates.
-
Pictures by Tom Marriot
02 Jun 2026
What can you do with a rock?
scan it. draw it. measure it. render it. throw it. move it. stack it. leave it.
April, 2026
02 Jun 2026
This June we will be at Design Research Society in Edinburgh presenting our paper “We found Planet B. What does this mean for design?”
Planet B is an ironic, speculative and performative research project imagining the discovery of an alternative planet and the impossible task of recreating Earth through design. The famous activist warning “There is no Planet B” became a design brief. Set within the fictional Aesthetic Continuity Department, participants of the Summer School of Materialist Research in Greece were tasked with replicating our Planet [A] under the intentionally simplistic principle that “if it looks the same, it is the same.” They were assigned to Rock, Stick, and Flower Units and trained to reproduce nature through absurdly precise protocols, guidelines and step-by-step manuals during a week in the Greek beachtown of Olympiada.
In this upcoming article, we reflect on this situated and shared material research, and the unintended consequences that Planet B brought about. Ultimately, we consider through this example how design can host open-ended processes, proposing irony, attentiveness, and affective responsiveness as modes of engaging with planetary fragility and the paradox of fabricating the natural.
More at https://ongoingpractice.cargo.site/
02 Jun 2026
Follower tracking
We have started recording @ongoing_practice, but only 1 observation so far — not enough to show a trend yet. Track it daily →
Download @ongoing_practice's data
Everything below is derived from this account, priced on the counts shown. Delivered as CSV by emailed link.
You only pay for rows we deliver. Counts are the maximum available today; if an export comes back smaller, the difference is refunded automatically. Counts as last collected 2 days, 6 hours ago.
Tracking
A monthly plan, not a download: we keep reading @ongoing_practice and email you what changed.
Other reports
Not downloads of this account: they take their own inputs.
Similar accounts
Accounts we track that share hashtags, mentions or bio topics with @ongoing_practice.
@readingmaterial_
187 followers
Also mentions @lehodesosa
@jordan__camila__
1,731 followers
Also mentions @readingmaterial_
@ashin.paris
352 followers
Also mentions @abel_carcamo
@curatedgarment
9,608 followers
Also mentions @abel_carcamo
@ambricole
12.6K followers
Also mentions @abel_carcamo
@abel_carcamo
8,768 followers
Also mentions @readingmaterial_
@88gallerylondon
11.5K followers
Also mentions @abel_carcamo
@diegourbinav
9,081 followers
Also mentions @abel_carcamo