Encounters Along the Way

Along the way, whether you are tracing a cut, or making your way along a side-trail, you may encounter a number of different agential phenomena: i) Vista’s, ii) Landmarks, iii)Great White Beasts, or iv) Shipwrecks.

Each of those figures have emerged from my research, and offer different possibilities of meaning making alongside your journey through this knowledge-land-scape.

Although you can “keep going”, for this instruction it is important to click on the pop-up image to your left that says “Vista”. You will return to this cut later.

Vista: Learning About Vistas

Research Creation

Before you reach the end of this tutorial, it is important to reiterate the fact that this Knowledge-Land-Scape does not provide determinate outcomes or easily packageable take-aways on the “meaning” of knowledge conciliation in community-based polar bear research.

The purpose of entering this scape, even when straightforwardly tracing my cuts, is not to gather take-away results, but rather to attune to the practices, processes and spaces within which such knowledge conciliation can become possible in the first place.

To consider knowledge conciliation as a repositioning rather than as a data-driven, or outcome oriented endeavour, redirects the focus away from results at a predetermined ending, towards a focus on movements along the way.

In accordance with such a shift, many of my research “outputs” and research creations, are shared along the way, rather than at the anticipated ending of a cut. Not only does this better reflect the non-linear nature of knowing along-the-way, it also saves an awkward moment when it becomes clear that, like all scapes, this Knowledge-Land-Scape might have boundaries but it doesn’t have determinate endings.

In such an entangled scape you have to think carefully before you "detour". You might easily lose your bearing, or not always find a path to return to your previous cut. For this reason, if you hover over the “detour” button, before clicking it- it will reveal where the detour will take you. In this case, if you hover over the button, it will show you that the detour will bring you to the “Terms of Engagement” page.

Do not click the detour button for now. Keep going.

Detour to the Terms of Engagement

Another Point of Beginning

Eventually all cuts run into "Another Point of Beginning".

These are not conclusive endings to this work, but rather perform a cusp of emergence- a story-so-far. Some of these points mark the end of funding cycles or research projects, or mark the limitations and scope of this particular PhD dissertation. Others are trails, and tracks that have faded out, as they remained un-revisited. "Another point of Beginning" marks one moment along an ongoing animate line of corresponding phenomena, and they usually allow for making another cut - even if that cut no longer includes a researcher.

You have finished the instruction tutorial. Click "Home", on the top-left corner of your screen and embark on your journey.