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Site/sight/insight: becoming a socioecological learner through collaborative artmaking practices
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Site/sight/insight: becoming a socioecological learner through collaborative artmaking practices

David Rousell, Alexandra Lasczik, Rita L Irwin, Jemma Peisker, David Ellis and Katie Hotko
Touchstones for deterritorializing socioecological learning : the anthropocene, posthumanism and common worlds as creative milieux, pp.163-187
Palgrave Macmillan, 1st
2020
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Affect Anthropocene A/r/tography C/a/r/tography Carte Collaborative artmaking Delueze Poetic texts Posthumanism Sensation Visual essays Education Systems Teaching and Instruction
This chapter explores collaborative Arts practices as critical and creative vehicles for assembling a figure of the socioecological learner. We focus on developing the sensorial and affective dimensions of learning through aesthetic engagements with place, drawing on Deleuzian concepts of the "larval subject" , "carte" and "rhisome". In doing so, we also forge connections with contemporary life sciences that reveal the permeability and plasticity of learning processes through dynamic interactions within developmental eco-systems. These conceptual and empirical resources inform our posthumanist methodological approach to collaborative Arts practices, which we describe in terms of a c/a/r/ography. Through the collaborative production of "site/sight-specific" images and poetic texts, we seek to produce a generative and visually critical exposé, which locates the emergence of the socioecological learner within a "bio-social ecology of sensation". This opens up a field of potentials for sensing, thinking, feeling, and learning through collective aesthetic engagements with more-than-human worlds.

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