| Owner: |
Ramsey Affifi
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| Owner Email: |
ramsey.affifi@ed.ac.uk
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| Paper Title: |
Pedagogy of Interspecies Design
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| Session Title: |
Curriculum Matters: Being White, Being Green
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| Paper Type: |
Roundtable Presentation
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| Presentation Date: |
4/7/2019
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| Presentation Location: |
Toronto, Canada
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| Descriptors: |
Environmental Education, Philosophy, Urban Education
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| Methodology: |
Conceptual/Theoretical
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| Author(s): |
Ramsey Affifi, University of Edinburgh
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| Unit: |
Division B - Curriculum Studies
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| Abstract: |
This paper describes a pedagogical multispecies approach to design. Instead of either green tech or Uexkullian subjectivism, I propose a transactivist perspective that better addresses
non-humans as active learning beings, participating in and elaborating on the construction and meanings of built environments. A transactional approach embraces the notion that all organisms continually reconstruct each other’s environments, that meaning-making of lived experience is an ongoing and indeterminate process for all species, and that there is necessarily a pedagogical dimension to be uncovered and developed in our design considerations.
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| DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.3102/1438823
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