To make something collective there needs to be a mutual understanding for fruitful engagement and accessibility. For this I am developing a tool for essaying the first step is how to deal with knowledge in essaying, second step would be how to go from mapping to performative essaying. In the article: Essaying through knowledge perspectives and knowledge fragments I theorized how we start essaying thought mapping.
The results from the article lead me to researching collectivity in diverse ways, to investigate the relation between the personal and the other. This is still in full process.
1: Subject - Experiential ways of knowing
How did I personally experience the topic in the past?
How do I personally experience the topic currently?
These can be:
- primary exeriences
- secondary expereinces (someone else close to you)
For instance
- diary entry
- dreams
- memory (Anecdotes / situations / experienes)
- emotions / feelings
1: Clustering knowledge fragments
clustering
Perform the knoledge fragments in the mind map;
- How do they relate?
- What is the proximity to the topic/oject?
- What is the proximity to each other?
- Which ones can be clustered?
- feel free to add new keywords/synonyms in your mind map
10 min. Introduction
10 min. Workshopping On bruises - silence
10 min. Workshopping On bruises - what is missing?
10 min. Sharing + clustering
20 min. feedback
Knowledge fragments
Post-it: pink: Rational ways of knowing
Post-it yellow: experential ways of knowing
Digital data: e.huurdeman@fontys.nl
Referencing:
* = anonymous
name = only exposed to the group
source = public referenc
2: Object - Sensorial ways of knowing
How does the topic sound? (form = audio)
How does the topic feel? (form = object tactility/material)
How does the topic look? (form = visual)
How does the topic move? (form = performative/video)
How does the topic tast/smell? (form = sent/smell reference)
This part is not about discussing the questions, but expressing them in the requested form, start drawing, share sounds,exppress movements, try to work through through these forms.
Record, video, draw, make a pictue or video
For instance:
- songs / compositions
- archive material
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3: Other - Rational ways of knowing
How does the topic relate to (theoretical) sources?
Choose knowledge perspectives:
note: chose at least 2 you unfamiliar with
- historical perspective
- economical perspective
- etymological perspective
- political perspective
- material research perspective
- Law etc.
Different sources:
- news/media articles
- academic papers/books
- dictonary/etymological definitions
3: (Inter)relation / contextualisaition
of knowledge fragments
- Who/what is this (object/topic) in relation to?
- who/what is affecteded?
- who/what has influence?
- who/what is included/excluded?
- What ways of knowing and what knowledge fields are there lacking/missing?
For instance:
- other people
- non-human animals
- nature
- materials
- technology