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Epistemic environments — where knowledge gets built

November 5, 2026November 7, 2026 by Michael Shanks

A model in collaborative field research Last week Connie Svabo and I hosted a gathering of members of her STEM Education Research Center (FNUG at University of Southern Denmark) [Link] to explore epistemic environments in the Bay Area — spaces and places where knowledge gets built. Our core team was Dorte Moeskær Larsen, Associate Professor…

Site specifics: Todd Saunders, host, ghost and visitor

October 13, 2026October 15, 2026 by Michael Shanks

This is another comment coming in the wake of my recent visit to Fogo Island for Shore Time — a gathering to discuss design, art, place [Link] [Link] It’s about the wonderful architecture of Todd Saunders [Link]. More matters of hospitality, of hosts, visitors, and the ghosts that can haunt their meeting. At Shore Time,…

Times Places Things — Fogo Island, Newfoundland

October 13, 2026October 13, 2026 by Michael Shanks

A previous post on this site mentioned a recent visit I made to Fogo Island [Link] — and where I found myself revisiting matters I had raised in a book of mine — Heritage Performance Design (2019) [Link]. Here are more comments and thoughts that have arisen after this extraordinary gathering. See also my thoughts…

basement

October 8, 2026 by Michael Shanks

Museum of Classical Archaeology, Peterhouse, Cambridge 1977.

Etruscan

October 7, 2026 by Michael Shanks

Burial urn. Etruscan 7th or 6th century BCE. Glyptotek, Copenhagen.

Fogo Island — field notes on design, place, community

October 5, 2026October 13, 2026 by Michael Shanks

I have just returned from a fascinating gathering on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada — Shore Time [Link], organized by Fogo Island Arts, a part of Shorefast [Link], the social enterprise founded by Zita Cobb in 2006 to build economic and cultural resilience on the island. Speakers and hosts were Kitty Scott, Leonor Antunes, Tom McDonough,…

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