Carrier Bags: Curiosity for Media Theory

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Borrowing from Ursula K Le Guin’s theory of the “carrier bag”, a metaphor for a tool for gathering and collectivising, rather than for domination, we aim to approach technology and learning in these terms. This session exchanges on interdisciplinary approaches for learning to overcome a formalised media theory curriculum, interweaving the theoretical, the speculative, and the material. Viewing learning as a process of becoming, we emphasis students' endemic knowledge, creativity, and curiosity, empowering them to co-create content and participate in the dissemination of knowledge.This session invites the participants to engage in rethinking learning, echoing Paolo Freire's words: “Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.” Together we want to discuss non-conventional methods for bridging the fields of pedagogy, art, media theory, and academia, highlighting the need for more speculative research. The session focuses on media technologies, spatial and bodily experiences of knowledge, transcending conventional methods of the classroom. Carrier Bags: Curiosity for Media Theory asks how we as practitioners can be sensitive in our interaction with different media environments (i.e. ecological, virtual, or imaginary).

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Life-Integrated Learning

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