Thinking with your hands
“… it is often far more time-consuming to attempt to describe hand-work in words than simply to demonstrate it.” (Smith, 2022) “…finally, and most significantly, if we conceive of skills as arising at the interface of the human senses and human body with the natural environment…” (Smith, 2022) “Thinking with your hands” – as a […]
Knowledge systems and making space for the embodied and experiential
Liberating myself from technical specifications of word count, third person voice, tone and choice of words is the power given to me in my own blog space – my ba, if you will – where I can play around with bits of ‘knowledge’ and rearrange them as I will. There are new concepts that I […]
Pondering the standpoint of a third culture kid (TCK) exploring plural knowledge systems
“[We] reflected on what it meant to be Brown academics (Curtis-Boles et al., 2012; Muhs et al. 2012) while personally navigating multiple cultural and work boundaries as transnational women (Joseph 2014).” (Lahiri-Roy, Belford, & Sum, 2021) Looking for a standpoint from which to respectfully approach different knowledge systems, particularly local, traditional, and Indigenous ones, led […]
I am thinking about thinking
“Knowledge creation is a continuous self-transcending process” Nonaka, Konno, & Toyama, 2001 My introduction to Yunkaporta’s work led me to dive more deeply into the exploration of thinking about diverse knowledge systems. I can taste unformed thoughts in my mind but do not yet have the words to manifest them. What could help me help […]
