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Swimming Lessons—Developing a Water Pedagogy to Examine the Entangled, Material, and Intra-Active Enmeshments Between Water, Bodies, and Knowledges
Summary
This paper describes a research-creation project that used artistic and participatory methods to engage people in thinking differently about water and environmental change. It explores posthuman theoretical frameworks for environmental education and science communication.
Faced with the reality of an impending global water crisis, the Swimming Lessons\nproject was developed as a research-creation event to encourage different ways of\nthinking and learning in and about water, from a posthuman, new materialist theoretical\norientation. Taking the playful position that in order to think about water we should be\nwet, an â Aquatic Lecture Seriesâ was held at the Hart House Pool on the University of\nToronto campus. By organizing an aquatic lecture series for students and faculty of the\nUniversity of Toronto, this thesis hopes to develop a water pedagogy, which I consider a\nway of figuring a research-creation event that encourages a new way of thinking,\nteaching, and learning water across disciplines, and underwater.\nFurther documentation of the Swimming Lessons events here:\nhttps://swimminglessonsweb.wordpress.com/
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