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
Cicada: unfounded fears for the innocence of childhood
Cicada (Tan, 2018) tells the story of a hardworking cicada trapped in a human world. Teachers at one of the participating schools were uncomfortable with some of the implicit themes. In this conversation, we discuss why that should be, and what it says about our fears for the innocence of children.