Instructions: Ways to Navigate this Space

As you enter this knowledge-land-scape you take up the role of a fictional community-based researcher that tries to make their way through a large polar bear monitoring project while seeking to answer the following 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?”

This space allows you to engage with this question as you move along the traces of those that have come before you. In correspondence with the author of this knowledge-land-scape you are guided along particular cuts across the knowledge-land-scape, that help you make sense of ethical engagement in community-based research. These cuts correspond to the author’s research practices and together shape their dissertation. You are explicitly invited, however, to divert from these cuts and take any opportunity to navigate knowledge-land-scape as you please. To make sure that your journey will be as meaningful as possible, you are nevertheless advised to first follow this short “wayfaring tutorial”.

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Cuts, Threads and Trails

This space provides three available storylines that "cut" across the knowledge-land-scape. Each cut corresponds to what conventionally would be referred to as a PhD dissertation manuscript: i) “Voices of Thunder”, ii) ‘Aesthetic Action”, and iii) “Wayfaring the BW project”. You may enter the Knowledge-Land-Scape by making a choice between one of the three cuts. Once you have chosen a cut, follow the “keep going” prompt on the right side of your screen, to keep tracing that storyline. To keep following a particular cut is to trace it across the scape in the most-straight-forward manner, to eventually arrive at “another point of beginning” where its “story-so-far” is accounted for. A story-so-far may include more classic research outputs, like published papers or it may explain how the open-ended nature of the cut allows for ongoing impacts or future possibilities.

Apart from tracing cuts, it is also possible to thread your own way through the knowledge-land-scape. This becomes possible by responding to the many options to pivot, or detour from your initially chosen cut. You can start following another cut halfway your journey, or trail-off in response to an invitation you encounter on the way. You might even be pushed off course by unanticipated events or new insights. Such redirectives are categorized as either “invitations” or “ice pressure ridges”.

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Redirectives: Ice Pressure Ridges

As you make your way along the knowledge-land-scape, you will encounter different possibilities to trail-off. Some of these possibilities come in the form of various invitations, while others come in the shape of ice-pressure ridges. They both allow, in their own different ways for a responsive redirection of your course. Let’s start with learning about invitations.

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You are invited to learn about invitations. You can 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. You can also “keep going” to stay on your current course. In this tutorial, however, it is important to check out the invitation. When you are ready to accept, click the button.

Redirectives: Ice Pressure Ridges

"Ice Pressure ridges" are the second redirective possibility to leave your prior course. In the case of ice pressure ridges it is important to realize that agency is not a property you or I possess as individual readers and authors. We always operate intra-dependently with many other agential forces, both human and non-human. Ice pressure ridges have a less voluntary nature than the invitations explained before, but rather perform the condition and boundaries that emerge as the choices we make as researchers encounter the forces of larger apparatuses at play. Ice pressure ridges de/marcate the boundaries of this knowledge-land-scape, and the extent of possibilities for users to make their own tracing/threading/wayfaring choices. Not everything is possible in research, or this knowledge-land-scape.

code You have encountered an ice-pressure ridge. Note that in this case you can not “keep going”, you are forced to go off course. click the ice-pressure ridge button when you are ready to learn more about ice pressure ridges.