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?

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

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

Cuts, Threads and Trails

This space provides three available "cuts" 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 these cuts. Once you have chosen a cut, follow the “keep going” prompt on the right side of your screen, to keep tracing that manuscript. To keep following a particular cut, is to trace my research across the scape in its most-straight-forward manner- to eventually arrive at “another point of beginning”, where I account for its “story-so-far”. A story-so-far may include more classic research outputs, like published articles or it may explain how the open-ended material nature of the cut allows for ongoing impacts or future possibilities, beyond my research.

Apart from tracing my cuts, 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 possible by responding to the many options to pivot or detour from your initial track. Although all wayfaring possibilities in this Knowledge-Land-Scape happen within my own recorded experiences, observations and research processes, it is the careful maintenance of the open-ended and entangled nature of my processes that makes it possible 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. In this Knowledge-Land-Scape 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 and Ice-Pressure Ridges.

Redirectives: Invitations

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, away from your previous course. Let’s start with learning about invitations.

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 in the knowledge-land-scape for that matter. 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 "invitation" button.

Invitation: Learning About Invitations

Redirectives: 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.

Ice-pressure ridges perform a re-directive of a seemingly less voluntary nature than the invitations explained before. That is because an ice-pressure ridge does not so much depend on our active attunements, as it submits and exposes us to the conditions and boundaries within which we encounter the larger apparatuses at play. Ice pressure ridges de/marcate both the boundaries of this knowledge-land-scape, as well as the extent of possibilities for readers to make their own tracing/threading/wayfaring choices. Like in community-based research, not everything is possible in this Knowledge-Land-Scape.

You have encountered an Ice-Pressure ridge. Note that in this case you can not “keep going”, you are forced to go off course, and trail alongside this ridge. click the “Ice-Pressure Ridge” button when you are ready to learn more.

Ice-pressure ridge: Learning About Ice-Pressure Ridges