Session #146

– Paper Presentations –

“The dominant Western worldview is not based on seeing synergies and connections but on making distinctions and seeing differences.”
Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

If COVID 19 taught us anything, it should be the absolute interconnectedness of everything. We dissect and differentiate at our peril. Within this research theme the notions of enmeshment, intertwining and connectivity are extended into the realm of radical pedagogies within spatial design.

Central to the traditions of Western education is the notion of classification by subject which forms the structural basis of curricula. Such a paradigm is problematic within spatial design pedagogies as the objective of design is to synthesise a diverse range of complex and inter-related challenges and influences.

The objective of this research theme is to question historic paradigms and through rigorous academic argument, explore new ways and means of developing pedagogy as complex ecologies – entwined and care-full.

Calls are made for academic papers that challenge the assumed authority of previous paradigms, and argue for radical pedagogies that strive to enrich student experience through the interrogation of the spaces between the ‘things’ themselves.

Contributions are sought from diverse disciplines within the realm of creative practice that challenge accepted orthodoxies of educational practice including, but not limited to; curriculum design, learning and teaching strategies, employability, pedagogy, intertwined curricular, learning as play, circular strategies, and patterns of pastoral care.

We propose contributions are made through formal academic paper presentations that challenge accepted orthodoxies and propose alternative paradigms of situated ecologies of care within spatial design disciplines.