Massive/Micro Autoethnography: Creative Learning in COVID Times

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This book presents the creative, arts-based and educative thinking resulting from a “21 day autoethnography challenge” set of self-guided prompts arising from the large-scale collaborative, creative, and global project to explore Massive and Microscopic Sensemaking during COVId-19 Times. It employs a guiding methodological framework of critical autoethnography, narrating the macro and micro experiences of COVID-19 from a first-person, and critically, culturally-informed perspective. The book features chapters creatively responding to the 21-day pandemic experiment through digital autoethnographic artworks, writings, and collaborations. It allowed authors to build embodied sensibilities, practice autoethnographic forms of writing and making, and transform personal experiences through the COVID-19 moment into critical understanding of scale, sense-making, and the relationality of humans, nonhumans, and the planet. Series Editor Foreword Foreword Acknowledgements Contents Editors and Contributors List of Figures 1 Introduction: Art, Autoethnography and Public Pedagogies in Lockdown Abstract 1 Autoethnography for Contemporary Times 2 The Power of Affect and the Creative-Relational During COVID 3 What is the ‘Massive/Micro Sensemaking’ Experiment, Anyway? 4 Days/21 Prompts (from Markham & Harris, 2020) 5 Working the Chapters/the Work These Chapters Do 6 Conclusion References 2 Through the Introverted Lens: Making Sense of Local and Global Interpersonal Connections Through Walking and Photography Abstract 1 Before Walks 2 Walk Through the Chaos 2.1 The Beginning (May 18–21): Physically and Mentally Distant from Others 3 Walking in the Middle (May 22–29): Wanting and not Wanting to Connect 4 Towards the End (June 9–17): Fast and Slow 5 Final Thoughts 6 Artist Statement References 3 Studio as Liminal Space Abstract 1 Micro-Massive Experiment: An Autoethnographic Prompt for Artistic Research 2 The Studio as Portal: A Prompt for Curiosity 3 A Studio During a Pandemic: A Space of Longing and Desire 4 Painting the Studio: Sense-Making with Objects 5 Liminality in the Studio 6 Massive-Micro Prompt 5: So What? Who Cares? (Markham & Harris, 2020, p. 5) References 4 Painting to Live Through Sympoiesis Abstract 1 Visualising Covid-19 1.1 COVID-19 Sucks 1.2 Visualising Empathy 1.3 Making sense of COVID-19 2 Conclusion References 5 Feather Flowers, ‘Home’ and a Global Pandemic: Collaborative Storytelling and the Relationality of Things Abstract 1 PART 1: Background 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Storying and Storytelling 1.3 Setting the Scene 1.4 Feather Flowers: An Intercultural Story? 1.5 Prompt #2: ‘Objects’ 1.6 Prompt #15: ‘What Next?’ 2 PART 2: Our Story During the Pandemic 2.1 Compiling the Story: A Brief Note 2.2 Masks 2.3 Feather Flowers at ‘Home’ 3 Conclusion References 6 Comics, Sensemaking, and Gutters: Finding and Losing the Self in Times of COVID-19 Abstract References 7 Alone and in the Dark: Sensemaking Through Online Platforms During the COVID-19 Pandemic Abstract 1 Introduction 2 Sensemaking as an Experience 3 Autonomy and Shared Space 4 The Evisceration of Online Sensemaking During COVID-19 5 Conclusion References 8 Why a Radically Different Act Feels Right: A Reimaging of Life During Lockdown in Rural Norway Abstract 1 Acting Radically Different 2 What Community of Grief? What Boundary of Dugnad? 3 Radically Differently? References 9 Roadkill, American Style: A Performative Reflexive Autoethnography Through Embodied Imagination, Photography, and Poetry During COVID-19, March 17–June 30, 2020 Abstract 1 Signs of the Times During COVID-19 2 Global Call for Participation in a Massive and Microscopic Autoethnography Working Group 3 Roadkill, American Style: An Embodied Bricolage Methodology 4 Sensemaking So What? Who Cares? 5 Holding Together During COVID-19 References 10 Playfully Rethinking the Pandemic’s Pivot Imperative: An Early Childhood Researcher’s Reflections Abstract 1 3rd of June 2020 in Brisbane, Australia (Prompt #17) 2 16th of March 2020 3 21st of April 2020 4 25th of May 2020 5 10th of June 2020 6 27th of August 2020 Acknowledgements References 11 Triple AAA Ra(n)ting: A is for ____________ Abstract 1 Find at Least 2 Other People in the Group to Address the Question: “What is Going on Here?” References 12 A Culture of Care in Higher Education: Empathy, Affect and COVID-19 Abstract 1 Introduction 2 Creative Future-Focusing During Speculative Times 3 Empathy in COVID Times: How Has COVID Made Us Better Than We Were? 4 The Role of Empathy in Supervision 5 Massive and Microscopic Sensibilities as In/Conclusions: “How Has the Desperation of COVID 19 Become a Kind of Energy that Can Move Things…?” References 13 Situating the Self Within a New and Future ‘Normal’: Sensemaking of COVID Through Coproduction Abstract 1 Introduction Acknowledgements References 14 Holobionts, Happiness and Policing in a Suspended World Abstract References