Week Fifty-Four | Archipelagic Thinking
‘Isolated above, connected below’
From ‘Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking’
Archipelagic Memory: Intersecting Geographies, Histories and Disciplines
I enjoyed the discussion on this during session this week and wished we might have delved deeper, as always. I look forward to traveling to Indonesia later this year, an archipelago, to learn about how non-indigenous persons such as myself might learn to interact with traditional crafts and methodologies around indigo and other pigments and making. Learning to intersect expectations without imposing my own views, to keep my mouth shut and my ears open. The inside of my brain feels like an archipelago at this point in the MA, lots of land masses deeply connected with lumps jutting out of the water, seemingly unrelated or not yet understood. The archipelago of Hong Kong, where my childhood and memories still reside feels unexplained to me, the physicality of sibling islands that echo and vibrate, whilst holding hands far below the surface. Recollections of the Po Tois, weaving between islands sailing and living the very best of life. I am drawn to the principle of deeply connected experiences between people and spaces that may not outwardly appear connected. Negotiating differences and disparities is a huge part of empathetic thinking and whilst it’s entirely possible that I am misinterpreting this as I haven’t read any of this properly, but it all sounds like something I might be into. Lots of bookmarking to come back to later.
I love all of this stuff but I am feeling a bit beaten with the deadline stick so I will have to revisit.
https://www.spaceandculture.com/2020/11/28/review-contemporary-archipelagic-thinking/