Instructions: Ways to Navigate this Space

As you enter this knowledge-land-scape you can seek to answer the following research question: “What does it mean to practice knowledge conciliation guided by the principles of the ethical space of engagement, rather than by data-driven needs?”

You don’t have to answer this question by yourself, however. As you proceed, you will be making decisions in correspondence with me, the creator of this scape. As my experiences and action unfold through narrative form, you may trace my auto-ethnographic cuts across this Knowledge-Land-Scape. You can however also, and are explicitly invited to, divert from these cuts and take any possibility to navigate this Knowledge-Land-Scape as you please.

As you make your way, it might come to your attention that you are also moving alongside and across multiple others. As I did, you will have to make your own decisions on how you want to respond and proceed across this Knowledge-Land-Scape. Will you allow yourself to take the risks that come with diverting from your course? Or will you continue tracing my cuts in the hope of finding conclusive answers?

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You have scrolled down to see if you can find further guidance. However, in this case it seems that you have to trust that you will gain more insights as you go, and that you will make your choices carefully. For now, you can only "keep going".

"Keep Going" to enter a short "wayfaring tutorial".

Cuts

This space provides three entrance points to the Knowledge-Land-Scape: i) “Voices of Thunder”, ii) ‘Aesthetic Action”, and iii) “Wayfaring the BW project”.

Each "Point of Beginning" corresponds to a track that "cuts" across the scape along the lines of what conventionally would be referred to as a PhD dissertation manuscript.

Once you have chosen a cut, you can keep following its tracks to trace my research across the scape in its most-straight-forward manner.

You will eventually arrive at “Another Point of Beginning”, where I account for its “story-so-far” A story-so-far may include classic research outputs, like published articles, but more importantly, it explains how the material nature of this scape allows for ongoing impacts or future possibilities, beyond the cut of my research.

Threads and Trails

It is also possible to thread your own way through the Knowledge-Land-Scape, through a practice that anthropologist Tim Ingold calls “wayfaring”.

Such wayfaring is a practice of "feeling your way forward" in response to the many options to pivot or detour from your initial track.

Although all wayfaring possibilities in this Knowledge-Land-Scape are bounded my own recorded experiences, observations and research processes, it is the careful maintenance of the open-ended and entangled nature of such processes that allow for you to feel your own way alongside them within this space. In fact, it is by this very refusal to enclose my observations and practices in conclusive take-aways, that you can start following another cut halfway your journey, or trail-off in response to an invitation you encounter on the way - which is where the most meaningful insights can be found.

You might even be involuntarily redirected off course, by unanticipated events or astonishing new insights.

Within this Knowledge-Land-Scape such re-directives are performed as either “Invitations” or “Ice-Pressure Ridges”.

"Keep going" to learn about Invitations.

Invitations

As you make your way along the knowledge-land-scape, you will encounter different possibilities to trail-off. These possibilities show up as navigation buttons.

"Invitations" show up on your bottom left corner, as a yellow button.

Hover over the “invitation” button that has appeared in the left bottom corner to unveil more about this invitation.

Note that you don’t have to accept this, or any other invitation in the knowledge-land-scape for that matter. You can also “keep going” to stay on your current course.

Within this tutorial, however, it is important to check out the invitation.

When you are ready to accept, click the "invitation" button.

Invitation: Learning About Invitations

Ice-Pressure Ridges

"Ice-Pressure Ridges" are the second re-directive in this Knowledge-Land-Scape. The ice-pressure ridge is a figure that gestures towards the agencies of the land itself.

They remind us that agency is not a property that is possessed by individual readers, researchers and authors. Our ways of becoming knowledgeable always correspond intra-dependently with many other agential forces, both human and non-human.

“Keep Going” to cross the boundary of this scape. Then come back here, to find another way.

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There are different reason for tracks to end- and trails to fade out.

The most apparent reason within this Knowledge-Land-Scape is not so much that there is no "outside"- it is just that you have reached the boundaries of what has come to matter within the agential cut of my research.

Another reason could be that you have encountered an "Ice-Pressure Ridge" that forces you to go off course, and find another path. Ice-pressure are always performed by agents other than me.

click the “Ice-Pressure Ridge” button when you are ready to learn more.

Ice-pressure ridge: Learning About Ice-Pressure Ridges