SASUF Satellite Events 2024

2-DAY event

• 13 May: 13:15-16:00. Orkanen, room F220, Malmö University (and virtually on zoom: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/62604874169)

• 14 May: 13:15-16:00. Landart in the park (By the windmill in Slottsparken). You can also create a landart wherever you are, in Sweden or South Africa.

Exploring the nature and boundaries of STEAM(ing) knowledge
In two satellite events, we will explore the nature and boundaries of STEAM(ing) knowledge. A starting point for these two satellite events is the stance that knowledge is not made in isolation but evolves by answering to the world in a ‘process of growth’ and a ‘practice of correspondence’ (Ingold, 2013, Hofverberg, 2019). This relational perspective of knowledge is one that represents knowledge as fluid and situated in ‘heterogeneous multiplicities’ of context (Haraway, 1998).

By hosting the two satellite events we hope to broaden our view of the world and to find ways of re-storying the world when educating towards more sustainable ends. Furthermore, we hope to expand on the conception of STEAM(ing) knowledge as fluid, transient, relational and situated in heterogeneous multiplicities; and to reflect on how such knowledges impacts on human agency with respect to four planes of being: our material interactions with nature, with each other, within ourselves, and in relation to society and societal structures.

Satellite event 1
13 May: 13:15-16:00. Orkanen, Malmö University, Room F220. Possibility to join virtually by this zoomlink: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/62604874169

Exploring the nature of STEAM(ing) knowledge through the lens of an artifact
For this open-ended event, we would like to invite each participant to bring ‘an artifact’ that represents a correspondence/engagement with the world in some way and (if possible) one that sits at the CUSP of STEAM* knowledge. Examples can be from any place and time (for example technology, arts and crafts, argriculture and food making, fibre and clothes making, architecture and building etc.) In the workshop we will work with the artifacts to explore STEAM knowledge. 

 The event will include:

• Facilitators share two examples of how they have used artifacts of personal value to themselves to create stories of being in the world.
• Participants move into groups and share their own stories about their chosen artifacts, using the questions drawn up from 4-planar social being.
• Participants regroup in plenary to discuss what we have learned about the nature of knowledge and emerging agential power in STEAM contexts.

*STEAM: Science,Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths

Satellite event 2:
14 May: 13:15-16:00. Landart in the park (Meeting place: By th windmill in Slottsparken. If you don't know the way, come to Malmöhusvägen 2, at 1 pm, and we'll go to the windmill in Slottsparken)

Exploring the nature of STEAM(ing) knowledge through: Landart in the park
In Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) there is a long tradition of acknowledging human-nature relations, local knowledges and place specific environments. In this satellite event we will explore these relations though Landart. Specifically the human-nature relations, local knowledges and place specific environments are explored by 1) being present at a place, 2) acknowledging the place’s specific nature and ecology, 3) create an artwork together with the place 4) take a photo and up-load the photo here: https://mau.padlet.org/hannahofverberg1/landart-49r3myl26dhek98h), or send the photo to hanna.hofverberg@mau.se. If you want to, you can give your landart a name, and write about your process and your experiences. Here is a description with some examples, of the Landart activity: https://play.mau.se/media/t/0_c9tsx5e1

The exploratory event of Landart is an example of how knowledge is made by answering to a place in “practice of correspondence” (Ingold, 2013). Further, the nature and boundaries of STEAM(ing) knowledge is explored as dynamic, interconnected and embedded within heterogeneous multiplicities. We also hope that the outcomes with the artworks will illuminate our material interactions with nature, with each other, within ourselves. The event is co-created with a Natural Sciences, Technology and Learning course which is part of the Malmö University Primary School teachers in training degree. 

In sum, the two events  - Exploring the nature of STEAM(ing) knowledge through the lens of an artifact and though Land art - touch on three themes of the SASUF Sustainability Forum: (1) Learning with and about climate change, natural resources and sustainability, (2) Education for a sustainable society and (3) Social transformation through change: Knowledge and social development strategies.
 
Contact email for inquiries:
hanna.hofverberg@mau.se

References:
Bhaskar, R. (1993). Dialectic: The pulse of freedom. London: Verso.
Haraway, D. (1988). Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. Feminist Studies, 14(3), 575-599.
Ingold, T. (2013). Making – Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture. London: Routledge.
Hofverberg, H. (2019). Crafting Sustainable Development. Studies of Teaching and Learning Craft in Environmental and Sustainability Education. Diss. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet.