Ways of Knowing: Ways of Thinking – A cognitive justice framework for working with an “ecology of knowledges”
As promised at the end of the previous post which introduced the background to this interwoven framework where I bring together the knowledge work of Indigenous scholars and scientists like Robin Wall Kimmerer, Martin Nakata, and Tyson Yunkaporta into my visualization together with my contributions (in purple) drawn from my own creative practice-based research. The […]
Interweaving ways of knowing from exploring the boundaries of knowledge
There is an ancient conversation going on between mosses and rocks, poetry to be sure. About light and shadow and the drift of continents. This is what has been called the “dialectic of moss on stone—an interface of immensity and minuteness, of past and present, softness and hardness, stillness and vibrancy, yin and yang.” […]
Book Review: Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta
It was not until I reached page 150 of this 250 page book typeset in a larger font that I was to wholly recognize the worth and value of Tyson Yunkaporta’s work of genius. On the page, he summarizes his contribution from Australia’s Aboriginal knowledge system – written for the rest of us – with […]
