Making Odd Kin
Making Odd Kin is a research and development pilot project that takes a novel approach to re-thinking relationships to the environment by investigating how important multispecies flourishing is to all of us. Underpinned by philosophically-informed childhood research, the project involves working in close partnership with teachers by tapping into work already underway in Reception classes.
The arts-based processes involved in the project recognise the capacities that children have to tell fresh and insightful stories. The project will culminate in the production of a children’s picturebook, created with local children
Making Odd Kin
Starting from the Middle: telling the story of Making Odd Kin
Thinking with the way women saved and collected leftover bits and pieces and scraps, Schapiro and Myer’s 1977 term “femmage” encompassed decoupage, collage, photomontage and assemblage. Defenders of “slow” early childhood pedagogies (eg. Clark’s “Mosaic” approach 2017, and Tishman’s “Slow Looking”, 2018) have employed collage as visual, participatory research frameworks for listening to young children’s views and experiences, and as a means of enquiry and representation.