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.

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 resultss, but rather to help you 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 endeavour, redirects the focus away from results at a predetermined ending, towards a focus on movements along the way. Without even guaranteeing the materialization of their desired outcomes. In accordance with such a shift, many of my research “outputs” and research creations, are shared along the way, where and when they produced, rather than at an 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 my research cuts do not seem to translate into clear endings and conclusions, but rather consist of detours, “stories-so-far’, and “other places of beginning”. After all, like all scapes, this knowledge-land-scape might have boundaries, but it doesn’t have determinate endings.

Detours do not only exist within “stories-so-far”, they are offered across the knowledge-land-scape. When you take a detour, you may not always find a path to return to your current cut, so think carefully before you detour. 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 other points 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. These other points of beginning mark one moment along an ongoing animate line of correspondence.and they usually allow for making another cut.

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