​​Dialogical Insight Lab: Art Education Research Collective on Relationalities, Entanglements and Affect Cluster
 

Information for 7 March Friday Dialogue:

For the next Friday Dialogue, we plan to continue the focus on Listening to expand the discursive connections started in 2024. We will ask participants to consider how the concept as practice, philosophy, capacity, and more attaches to emerging and developing contexts, potentially transforming established discourses through/with/in art, pedagogy, and research.​

 

Register here to join the Friday Dialogue on March 7 at 12:00 EST. You will receive a reply with the Zoom link and password.

 

Requested preparation for March 7, 2025 meeting:

 

​We request that participants add to this document, identifying a scholar, theoretical framework, or other source of inspiration that connects Listening to notions of affect, relationality, and/or response-ability. Prior to the meeting, please add your citation and identify specific examples and/or describe how it informs or inspires ways of thinking about the cluster themes in expanding contexts of our work.​ In the meeting on Friday, March 7, we will discuss how our orientations to Listening converge and diverge to create new curiosities and questions that expand the potential of our research and fields of practice.

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Overview:

We are inviting everyone interested to join the Dialogical Insight Lab: Art Education Research Collective on Relationalities, Entanglements and Affect. This idea was introduced in the panel discussion at AERI in Cambridge to continue building on the discussions, annotations, and mapping work from spring 2024. We will organize three thematic dialogue Zoom meetings on the following days and times:

 

February 14, 2025, 12:00pm EST: Concept of “Listening”

March 7, 2025, 12:00pm EST

May 9, 2025, 12:00pm EST

 

The Dialogical Insight Lab aims to collectively reactivate focal concepts through discussion and shared research, realizing emerging discourses and contexts through/with/in art, pedagogy, and research. We will expand on the current body of shared annotation entries and insights from 2024, by tracing emerging focal concepts through further investigation and dialogue with the aim of unsetting familiar understandings through emerging connections.

 

Our first meeting will focus on the concept of listening, based on the mapping exercise from spring 2024, where it was the most used concept in the annotations from participants. Concepts to be explored in the second and third meetings (March & May) will be chosen through an iterative process based on the directions and insights that emerge from the first meeting of the Dialogical Insight Lab.

 

We ask that participants prepare for each meeting by submitting a similar annotation exercise for mapping research interests, practices, and connections as we used in 2024. Through the annotations and following dialogue, we hope that the Dialogical Insight Lab will continue our shared work in animating the following: 

 

• Questioning Lines: as the construction of crucial questions and problems that bring scholars together in “relational activity” and the composition of points of contact with a myriad of multiple more-than-human entities.

• Curiosities: as new and urgent themes and lines of inquiry and experimentation to which we ought to respond/relate/be affected as a field.

• Undoings/Reconfigurations: as displacing some of the normalized features of Western humanist inquiry dominating the field.

 

By revisiting, exploring, and reactivating the chosen concept, listening, we ask participants to ponder how concepts attach to emerging and developing contexts differently, transforming established discourses through/with/in art, pedagogy, and research.

 

Please, join the dialogue by bringing your annotations and thoughts. No need to submit anything in advance! Zoom registration opens February 1st, 2025.

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*All sessions are listed in Eastern Time (ET). ET refers to EST when EST is the local time and EDT when EDT is the local time.​

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