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Abstract
This report is about an explorative co-crafting course that applied the notion of
recursive publics to adult learning and pro-environmental activation. The aim was to engage a diverse cohort of learners towards patterns of eating, living, and engaging with the world that promote wellbeing and a healthy environment. The cultivation of more-than-human health concerns was explored through a two-month long, university-endorsed educational study with 22 households in Hong Kong where participants fermented their own urine for a substrate in which to grow an edible plant (Lactuca sativa); thereby creating a simple material relationship between their bodies and the environment. This civic-tech collective employed technologies to bring people physically together for potentially shaping more emancipatory engagement inside the shared material condition. Analysis reveals how it is helpful to conceive technologies in terms of how they open or restrict the reintegration of unifying purpose, diverse expertise and immanence of life processes in recursively profound and playful ways. The study offers an approach of recursive self-implication to design education as collective negotiation process for navigating unknown territory required to converge a myriad of expertise and intended beneficiaries.
recursive publics to adult learning and pro-environmental activation. The aim was to engage a diverse cohort of learners towards patterns of eating, living, and engaging with the world that promote wellbeing and a healthy environment. The cultivation of more-than-human health concerns was explored through a two-month long, university-endorsed educational study with 22 households in Hong Kong where participants fermented their own urine for a substrate in which to grow an edible plant (Lactuca sativa); thereby creating a simple material relationship between their bodies and the environment. This civic-tech collective employed technologies to bring people physically together for potentially shaping more emancipatory engagement inside the shared material condition. Analysis reveals how it is helpful to conceive technologies in terms of how they open or restrict the reintegration of unifying purpose, diverse expertise and immanence of life processes in recursively profound and playful ways. The study offers an approach of recursive self-implication to design education as collective negotiation process for navigating unknown territory required to converge a myriad of expertise and intended beneficiaries.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 80-99 |
Journal | Cubic Journal |
Volume | Design Education |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 30 Nov 2021 |
Keywords
- Co-crafting practice
- civic-tech education
- recursion
- urine fermentation
- proenvironmental activation
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Adventurous Homemaking: Exploring collaborations toward agroecological probabilities 综合家政:探索农业生态合作机遇
Wernli, M. (Invited speaker)
18 May 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk