Welcome in the in-between. This is where we meet: a manifestation of shared space and meaning that may or may not emerge from a collaborative ethic of mutual sense making.

Aesthetics

First, before you start following this cut, a note on "aesthetics".

Robinson and Martin (2016) understand aesthetics as the material and sensuous encounters between bodies-in-action, and the affective forces created in such encounters. What makes "aesthetic action” different from any other action, according to them, is the intentionality of either the action itself or the artist, or the aesthetic experience of the participating actor.

Aesthetic Encounter as Knowledge Conciliation

This cut reconfigures the challenge of knowledge co-production in the context of polar bear monitoring research in Nunavut as one that may come to matter through aesthetic encounters.

You are invited to think alongside the spaces of exchange that have emerged from prospective aesthetic actions like co-creating a motion-graphic documentary, built an igloo-, spent time on the land-, sharing food, and artistic interventions. Together we may feel our way forward through this knowledge-land-scape to understand how such encounters between research partners from Queen’s University and the community of Gjoa Haven, Nunavut have come to matter, and how they may provide meaning in terms of knowledge conciliation.

(Re-)Configurating Space

The questions I have asked myself alongside the unfolding of some of the events in this knowledge-land-scape are: What kind of spaces open up? What insights emerge within such spaces? What possibilities for cross-cultural exchange, beyond data, become possible? What slippages do they reveal between the promises of ethical knowledge engagement, and the material practices of doing so? And what can we learn from such slippages?

You are presented with a vista "the Ethical Space of Engagement", go check it out to understand how ethical knowledge conciliation can be understood in terms of creating space.

Vista: The ESE (Space)

Aesthetic Action and the ESE

Vista: Becoming Other

Aesthetic (in)action in BearWatch

You find yourself at a crossroad. Each of the paths forwards will guide you across a case-study. These case study perform events within the BearWatch project that could possibly be marked as Ethical Spaces of Engagement.

Detour to Cut 2: Point of Beginning Animated Graphic Documentary

Detour to Cut 2: Point of Beginning (Pre-)workshops