Crafting relationships with nature through creative practices / Biljana C. Fredriksen and Per Ingvar Haukeland (eds.)

• HerausgeberIn: Fredriksen, Biljana C. 1969-; Haukeland, Per Ingvar 1966-
• MitwirkendeR: Fredriksen, Biljana C. 1969-; Haukeland, Per Ingvar 1966-
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Other title: Crafting in a more-than-human world /; Teaching, learning, tuning : towards eco-centric aestheticlearning processes in craft education /; A heartbeat of an old oak : the emergence of embodied experiential metaphors as signs of human compassion with trees /; The original room : in the making as a tool for understanding /; Crafting with nature : rock paintings as Art of relations inembodied relational learning; Why is it hard to listen to a rock? : questioning geophilia,geopower, and material agency in sculpting Larvikite /; 7. Wind as a crafting agent: learning from a slow engagement withtime, place, and nature /; The wind-kite-me – an explorative essay about kite flying and crafting with nature /; Writing companions – cat-writing as a pedagogy of messy interspecies entanglements /; “You really are a thing!”: queering relations with the more-than-human world /; All things speak! : an eco-animism of co-crafting withother-than-humans in outdoor life (friluftsliv) /
• ISBN: 8215069193
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Biljana C. Fredriksen and Per Ingvar Haukeland (eds.)

This book is about crafting in a more-than-human world. The volume discusses performative and aesthetic forms of learning, arguing that learning, and the negotiation of meaning, is a multisensorial and multi-species processes. Many of the chapters are creative and artistic, and framed in a poetic lan guage. The poems and images not only contribute to a pleasant reading experience, but they play essential roles in communicating how to craft relationships with nature through creative practices.The chapters explore the roles of nature, materiality, space, improvisation, playfulness, and artistic practices in research and teaching. They showa variety of co-crafting processes that emergethrough more-than-human dialogues.The contributors of the book come from different research disciplines, from architecture, ecophilosophy, outdoor life studies, and craft education; to art, creative writing, poetry, and the performing arts. They all seek to overcome narrow anthropocentric approaches to the arts, arts education and education in general, and propose possible paths to a pedagogy of care and responsibility. They exemplify an eco(multi)centric approach to creative practices and invite readers to participate in a future of becoming together in a the more-than-human world.