• Forest Tensions

    Cardboard Marks On The World

    We revisit cardboard in considering how we personally engage with cardboard in the community. Outside of these moments in program what does cardboard look like in our lives? “It comes out every Tuesday to be collected. It’s recycled.” “it comes into my home carrying everything, food, materials, furniture.” “It is a universal shipping material.” “It holds my milk, my eggs, my new TV.” We discussed the complicated, and sometimes troubling nature of cardboard. It led us to ask how we could include community in this dialogue? The constant sounds of development around us remind us that our immediate neighbourhood is changing as new pavements, building and human urban sprawl engulf…

  • Markings

    Noticing With Cardboard and Engaging the Artistry Within

    Today we shared our curiosities around cardboard – questions we’ve considered and continue to think about. We are curious about… How do we construct and deconstruct knowledge with cardboard? What are we learning? What are the children learning? How can we engage or connect the research with the community? What happens when we stop verbal communication in the classroom? What drew us to the silence? Is the cardboard still valuable to us when it is falling apart, broken, tattered? What do we shy away from the “less strong” cardboard? How do we connect our experiences with cardboard to the forest or vice versa? We are noticing… We are paying more…