Interrelational Knowledge Cycles


How can new or revised approaches towards our modes of relation-building, communicating, and ‘being-together’, be adapted and enacted as part of expansive publishing processes? The ‘Interrelational Knowledge Cycles’ trajectory will look at questions and strategies towards relation-based practices, network building and maintenance, and establishing support structures based upon care-informed social arrangements and practices. This will include research into alternative communication styles, including horizontal, non-violent, trauma-informed, and verbal and non-verbal approaches, emotional, social and care-based infrastructures, and how publishing practices can be embedded within, and built upon, supportive infrastructures of social networks and interpersonal modes of organising.

Moreover, how can new or revised approaches towards ‘knowledge’, and how knowledge is produced and shared for a core part of these interrelational networks? Through this open question we aim to explore questions and strategies towards alternative ways of working, as well as knowledge production and dissemination methods that sit outside of traditional hierarchy-driven, Western-centric, individualised approaches. Experimenting with how we can (re)consider what is constituted as ‘knowledge’, how knowledge is presented, made public and circulated, how knowledge-production can be understood as a non-linear, expansive, cyclical practice and how intergenerational, intercultural, and interdisciplinary approaches can be integrated into the knowing-production process.

This cycle is rooted in the research and practice contained in Claire Tio and Yusser al Obaida’s upcoming publication “The Masters’ Tools”, as well as Catwings ongoing co-creation publication with HumDrumPress on abolitionist practices and principles.






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