Correspondence with Nature

A post-qualitative inquiry into teaching and research possibilities

“If, today, our world is in crisis, it is because we have forgotten how
to correspond. We have engaged, instead, in campaigns of interaction. Parties
to interaction face each other with their identities and objectives already in
place, and transact in ways that serve, but do nothing to transform, their
separate interests. Their difference is given from the start, and remains
afterward. Interaction is thus a between relation. Correspondence,
however, goes along. The trouble is that we have been so wrapped up in
our interactions with others that we have failed to notice how both we and they
go along together in the current of time… correspondence is about the ways
along which lives, in their perpetual unfolding or becoming, simultaneously
join together and differentiate themselves, one from another. This shift from
interaction to correspondence entails a fundamental reorientation, from the between-ness
of beings and things to their in-betweenness.

Tim Ingold, Correspondences (2021)

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Pathways of creative emergence

Examples of emergent participation

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