"Take an Object, Do Something With It, and Then Do Something Else With It": Or, Opening Research and the Research Space Through a School Garden

• In Event: 72.064 - Roundtable Session 29
  In Roundtable Session: 72.064-2 - Do Something With It: Extreme Theory and Methodological Innovation

Abstract

A school garden is an organic emergence. A dehiscence opened as the collaborative play of the natural world and human interaction with the earth, the garden provides a motif for opening and exploring research and the research space. Like the garden, research and the research space is full of life, of actions, of inter-actions, of play, growing beyond, beneath, and over boundaries and structures already in place. With deconstruction and différance in mind, this presentation meditates on the school garden and its opening of spaces for difference in curriculum, research, and representation. Its re-presentation follows the path opened by Jasper Johns’ suggestion as it uses a display of artwork to trace the research and research space explored in my doctoral dissertation.

Author

• Susan Jagger, Ryerson University