{"id":399,"date":"2022-05-05T09:01:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T09:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/ceen\/?p=399"},"modified":"2025-05-01T09:48:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:48:55","slug":"where-the-cat-was-thinking-with-whimsy-as-generative-acts-by-dr-helen-clarke-and-dr-sharon-witt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/transdisciplinaryeducationblog\/2022\/05\/05\/where-the-cat-was-thinking-with-whimsy-as-generative-acts-by-dr-helen-clarke-and-dr-sharon-witt\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the cat was? Thinking-with Whimsy as generative acts By Dr Helen Clarke and Dr Sharon Witt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u00a0 \u2018Whimsy is a whole ne<\/em><em>w world to me\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-405 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/transdisciplinaryeducationblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/625\/2022\/05\/Where-the-cat-was-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/transdisciplinaryeducationblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/625\/2022\/05\/Where-the-cat-was-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/transdisciplinaryeducationblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/625\/2022\/05\/Where-the-cat-was.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u00a0Photo Cre<\/strong><strong>dit<\/strong><strong>: Sarah Chave\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>At the recent March CEEN seminar, we were privileged to share a whimsical thinking space with curious and generous colleagues. Lively discussion affirmed both our belief that \u2018whimsy\u2019 is a significant force in everyday lives and practices, AND also that any notion of whimsy evokes paradoxes that challenge and provoke.<\/p>\n<p>We greeted whimsy with openness, an opportunity for collective provocation and responses. We also acknowledged whimsy as slippery; as \u2018intangible as a jellyfish out of water\u2019. Whimsy is hard to grasp, difficult to articulate but, together, we tried \u2026<\/p>\n<p>The following \u2018found poem\u2019 offers a celebration of seminar events as unfolded \u2018doings\u2019, \u2018matterings\u2019 and possibilities\u2019 (with format acknowledgement to Jayne Osgood, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>Whimsical doings<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Disruptions to the taken for granted, <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>the habitual,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>living in the not-yet known, <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>without rigid boundaries.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Creating art for a more-than written response,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Learning in a different way, <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Beginning to do education differently, <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>saying \u2018yes\u2019 to the unexpected,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>in the moment,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>interrupting our set ways, <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>following our curiosity,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>and being open in our programming.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Transdisciplinary,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>bodily, and graphical practices<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>fey,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>fleeting,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>eccentric,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>a way of living,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>driven by the drive of discovering<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>the greatness of small things<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>in comfortable chaos. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Strange, astonishing and funny-<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>whimsy makes you think of other things,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>surprising discovery,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>curious play,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>absences, presences,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>multi-species and material encounters,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>lightness and hope. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>Whimsical matterings<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>noticing, listening, playing, making,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>wandering and weaving,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>generalising and specialising,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>observing, exploring, experimenting, digressing,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>swimming, making, and remaking, mending,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>reflect-ing, mull-ing, question-ing,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>feeling, being-with, sitting-with, <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>encountering and interweaving.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-407\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/transdisciplinaryeducationblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/625\/2022\/05\/Photo-2-300x170.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/transdisciplinaryeducationblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/625\/2022\/05\/Photo-2-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/transdisciplinaryeducationblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/625\/2022\/05\/Photo-2.png 607w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>Whimsical possibilities<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Untangling whimsy as a concept, <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>challenge to norms, prescription, and pre-determined outcomes,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>enacts \u2018going out of your comfort zone\u2019 towards the unpredictable,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>decentres the ego, <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>wonderful interventions,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>small in stature; large in ambition, <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>playing with words \u2013decanters the go, <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>treading between tragedy and comedy,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>folding resistance back into the system, <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>opening opportunities with the everyday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-401\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/transdisciplinaryeducationblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/625\/2022\/05\/Photo-3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/transdisciplinaryeducationblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/625\/2022\/05\/Photo-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/transdisciplinaryeducationblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/625\/2022\/05\/Photo-3-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/transdisciplinaryeducationblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/625\/2022\/05\/Photo-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/transdisciplinaryeducationblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/625\/2022\/05\/Photo-3-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/transdisciplinaryeducationblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/625\/2022\/05\/Photo-3-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/transdisciplinaryeducationblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/625\/2022\/05\/Photo-3.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">And so,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">whimsy is paradoxical and provocative,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">it affects and effects our practices.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">How can I open myself to what I do not yet know? (Somerville, 2008:210)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">What could whimsy be?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">What could it activate?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">What is generated when whimsy is activated?<\/p>\n<p>We must acknowledge there are some paradoxes in thinking-with whimsy now. We live in troubled and difficult times and think-with current events in Ukraine. Is whimsy appropriate at a time of loss? Is there whimsy in darkness? Is whimsy intrinsically joyful and playful?\u00a0 Can whimsy be an accompaniment to trauma? Perhaps it\u2019s a type of response-ability in troubled times? We have found that embarking on a \u2018collective adventure\u2019 to think-with whimsy has been a generative and thought-provoking way of staying with the trouble (Haraway, 2016: 130).<\/p>\n<p><em> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-403 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/transdisciplinaryeducationblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/625\/2022\/05\/Photo-4-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/transdisciplinaryeducationblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/625\/2022\/05\/Photo-4-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/transdisciplinaryeducationblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/625\/2022\/05\/Photo-4-1024x513.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/transdisciplinaryeducationblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/625\/2022\/05\/Photo-4-768x385.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/transdisciplinaryeducationblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/625\/2022\/05\/Photo-4-1536x770.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/transdisciplinaryeducationblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/625\/2022\/05\/Photo-4.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Photo\u00a0 Collage Credit: Helen Clarke <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018We must dare to make the relay; that is to create, to fabulate, in order not to despair\u2019 (Haraway, 2016: 130).<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Haraway, D. (2016) <em>Staying with the trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene<\/em> (Experimental Futures). Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press<\/p>\n<p>Osgood, J. (2019) PheelyDoings: a poem. <a href=\"https:\/\/phematerialisms.org\/\">https:\/\/phematerialisms.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Somerville, M. J. (2008) Waiting in the chaotic place of unknowing\u2019: articulating postmodern emergence. <em>International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education<\/em>, 21 (3), 209-220<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Acknowledgements <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>With thanks to CEEN colleagues for their thinking and participation. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u2018Whimsy is a whole new world to me\u2019 \u00a0Photo Credit: Sarah Chave\u00a0 \u00a0At the recent March CEEN seminar, we were privileged to share a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1061,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Where the cat was? 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