Swimming Lessons—Developing a Water Pedagogy to Examine the Entangled, Material, and Intra-Active Enmeshments Between Water, Bodies, and Knowledges

Faced with the reality of an impending global water crisis, the Swimming Lessons project was developed as a research-creation event to encourage different ways of thinking and learning in and about water, from a posthuman, new materialist theoretical orientation. Taking the playful position that in order to think about water we should be wet, an â Aquatic Lecture Seriesâ was held at the Hart House Pool on the University of Toronto campus. By organizing an aquatic lecture series for students and faculty of the University of Toronto, this thesis hopes to develop a water pedagogy, which I consider a way of figuring a research-creation event that encourages a new way of thinking, teaching, and learning water across disciplines, and underwater. Further documentation of the Swimming Lessons events here: https://swimminglessonsweb.wordpress.com/