Kathryn Gohmert’s current work and research deal with undoing othering in an increasingly polarized world.
During her time at ZK/U, she is focusing on using interactive art to alter behavior and counter othering, encouraging connection among individuals. Her project is motivated by the trends we currently see in our world, both globally and at the micro-level of relationships and communities.
She is studying the threat-detection processes of our cognitive wiring and developing techniques to work around them, inspired by ecological models, world-building through play, and game theory.