I am in Copenhagen at the annual meeting of the European Science Education Research Association ESERA [Link]. Here is my summary statement for our session that introduces Creative Pragmatics as a framework for reshaping science education [Link]. The world our students face today is not stable, predictable, nor neatly divided into disciplines. It is complex,…
eco-literacy
Over your cities grass will grow
Sensitive light-touch upcycling of an old locomotive works. Curated rewilding and planting for biodiversity. Working with the past, bridging past and present. Designing landscapes with sensitivity to ecosystem. Manifestations of an archaeological sensibility and acting-with nature [Link]. The opening in 1998 of the bridge across the Storebaelt, connecting the two biggest islands in Denmark, brought…
Andrew Pickering — acting with the world
In a complex world of uncertainty, precarity, risk, and trouble, how do we conceive and teach science? I got to read Andrew Pickering’s new book today — Acting with the World [Link]. I have long admired his philosophically-informed studies of scientific practice. With such elegant and compelling clarity he makes the case for a sustainable…
Archaeological shores: reflections on a metaphysics of cartography
Field notes. The pragmatics of an archaeological sensibility — what might one do in an archaeological visit to the beach? For as long as I can remember maps have made me anxious. Where does one draw the line of a coast, a road, a river? In archaeological excavation one is regularly required to document, record,…
In the wake – John Constable
Atmospheres, weather, ambience. Stagings, scenographies. John Constable, England, mostly 1821-1822 Cloud studies with monument. Bamburgh Northumberland, England June 2016. Cloud studies with monument. Nyborg, Fyn, Denmark, September 2024.
Update: December 2022 – slow archaeology
“Our brains aren’t designed for multitasking”, my dear friend Cliff Nass, mathematician, cognitive scientist and psychologist, warned me a good long while ago – and he’d written a book about it! “It will slow you down and cloud your reasoning.” OK — I’m still working on the same big three projects as back then. But…