Thinking-with whimsy as generative acts

Dr Helen Clarke and Dr Sharon Witt (@Attention2Place)

The session aims to provide opportunities to explore themes of emergence, creativity, whimsical attention, playing-with place, diffraction, and collective experimentation. During this interactive workshop we will think-with whimsy to play-with new ideas and do things differently. We will consider what whimsy might be, the paradoxes of whimsical practices, offer participants time to engage-with whimsy, and to muse on possibilities for their own context.

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Helen and Sharon are primary teachers and teacher educators working within subject disciplines of science and geography. They currently work in interdisciplinary ways as @Attention2Place, researching place attention and responsiveness with children, teachers, students, and local communities. They explore posthumanist, new materialist, common worlds perspectives through creative, playful, critical, material encounters with the world.