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 dissertation author you are guided along particular cuts across the knowledge-land-scape, that help you make sense of ethical engagement in community-based research. You are explicitly invited, however, to divert from your course 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 read the instructions below.

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. To keep tracing your original cut, follow the “keep going” prompt on the right side of your screen. 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. At this point you are presented with more classic research outputs, like published papers or results so-far, and are invited to trace another cut through the knowledge-land-scape or retrace your steps through the scape.

It is also possible to thread your own way through the knowledge-land-scape by responding to the many options to pivot, or detour from your initial course. It is possible to start following another cut halfway your journey, or to trail-off in response to an invitation you encounter on the way. Or perhaps you are pushed of course by unanticipated events or new insights. Such redirectives are categorized as either “invitations” or “ice pressure ridges”.