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==== Method and Scope ==== | ==== Method and Scope ==== | ||
- | Given we are dealing with the topic of reality construction, | + | The the underlying epistemology |
Practically, | Practically, | ||
- | Material | + | Material |
* Interviews and Connections | * Interviews and Connections | ||
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* Ethnographic encounters and Anthropological Immersion | * Ethnographic encounters and Anthropological Immersion | ||
* Reflective blogging and Existential Story-ing | * Reflective blogging and Existential Story-ing | ||
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- | and other methods that will be discovered. | ||
==== Results ==== | ==== Results ==== | ||
- | **My Blog** records research results and is called ' | + | === The Blog === |
- | Reality creating, blurring | + | |
+ | Over the past year a large volume of material has been collected through excursions, reading, interviews, observations, | ||
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+ | This has been recorded in a **blog** | ||
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+ | The focus of my experiments and blog based research has been methods and tools that facilitate shifts in reality, particularly those that disturb and confuse underlying perceptions of reality and/or that expand the confines or existing perceptions of reality. | ||
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+ | The methods I found fall into a wide range of artefacts and experience that are interrelated and deeply connected with the spirit of the Trickster which will be discussed in more depth later... | ||
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+ | o hybrids that evade categorisation by existing mental models | ||
+ | o activities | ||
+ | o processes that reveal hidden or obvious truths | ||
+ | o mediums that stimulate multiple senses simultaneously or by- pass well used senses and engage different parts of the brain that are not normally in play | ||
+ | o experiences that push the boundaries of consensus reality by inviting us to question whether something is real, exists, is happening. | ||
+ | o experiences that allow us to grow our own reality | ||
+ | o collaborations that create portals between different rhealms ( spiritual, physical, digital, imaginal, magical) and cultures. | ||
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+ | Using these all the methods and tools that I studied were several which could be seen to cross over and fall into multiple categories, or were particularly effective examples of practice in a particular area they are: | ||
- | * Sensorial Labyrinths | + | * **sensorial labyrinths** |
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- | * [[ARG]]’s | + | * [[ARG]]’s |
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- | * Geo-Caching | + | * **geo-caching** |
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- | http:// | + | *** street games** |
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+ | * **hybrids** | ||
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+ | //**as well as a number of other explorations, | ||
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- | as well as a number of other explorations, | ||
+ | *** transdisciplinary facilitation** | ||
- | * transdisciplinary facilitation | ||
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- | * exhibitions and expeditions | ||
- | http:// | + | *** exhibitions and expeditions** |
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- | * publications, | + | http:// |
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- | http://www.un-fiction.blogspot.com/ | + | |
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- | * reality challenging psychological sydromes | ||
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+ | ** * meandering musings** | ||
- | The Blog has drawn favourable, offline, responses, subscriptions and a small and loyal readership. | ||
- | * **Experiments and Field Tests:** | + | http:// |
- | A number of field tests have taken place in order to try out ideas found through research. | + | http:// |
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+ | *** reality challenging psychological sydromes** | ||
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+ | **The Blog** has drawn favourable, offline, responses, subscriptions and a small and loyal readership. There have been numerous requests for further information about the content, including requests for details about Foam and its other activities. People connect and contact each other through the site.Therefore it has already contributed to Foam’s aim of encouraging participation, | ||
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+ | === Experiments and Field Tests === | ||
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+ | In addition to this work a number of field tests have taken place in order to try out ideas found through research. | ||
**one off experiments** | **one off experiments** | ||
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Subverting xmas and creating hybrid decorations in a deprived neighbourhood | Subverting xmas and creating hybrid decorations in a deprived neighbourhood | ||
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- | Reactivating marginalised spaces using game/geo-cache mechanisms | + | |
- | + | Reactivating marginalised spaces using geo-cache | |
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**large scale hybrid story-ing ARG-like programmes** | **large scale hybrid story-ing ARG-like programmes** | ||
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- | + | === Literature Review === | |
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+ | Material was also collected through through reviewing literature from the transformational learning field, from management deveopment, from anthropological books and from fictional novels. These are listed in the references section. | ||
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+ | === The next section will summarise findings from all of these activities and discuss future implications and areas for further research === | ||
==== Discussion ==== | ==== Discussion ==== | ||
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==== References ==== | ==== References ==== | ||
- | * Darwin, J, Johnson, P and McAuley, J (2002). Developing strategies for Change. Prentice Hall. P: 16 | + | * Darwin, J., Johnson,P. and McAuley, J (2002). Developing strategies for Change. Prentice Hall |
- | * Cooperrider, | + | * Cooperrider, |
- | * Kegan, R. (1982) The Evolving Self. Harvard University Press. | + | * Kegan, R. (1982) The Evolving Self, Harvard University Press. |
* Kegan, R. (1994) In Over Our Heads – The Mental Demands of Modern Life, Harvard University Press. | * Kegan, R. (1994) In Over Our Heads – The Mental Demands of Modern Life, Harvard University Press. | ||
+ | * Hyde, L. (1998) Trickster Makes This World - Mischief, Myth and Art, North Point Press | ||
+ | * Schlitz, M.M., Vieten,C. and Amorok, T (2007) Living Deeply The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life, New Harbinger Publications and Noetic Books | ||
+ | * Cranton, P. (2006) Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning - A Guide for Educators and Adults, John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2nd Edition | ||
+ | * Mezirow, J. (2000) Learning as Transformation - Critical Perspectives on a Theory in Progress, Jossey-Bass | ||
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