Resources & Recordings from Discourse on the Body: towards a transdisciplinary framework 🗓

Resources & Recordings from Wednesday, April 10, 2024

On April 20, 2024, the Bodies FLC, organized by Ashley Bales, held a virtual roundtable discussion: Discourse on the Body: towards a transdisciplinary framework. If you missed the meeting, you can find a recording of the meeting linked here (and included further down on this page) along with the in-meeting exploration boards. If you have any thoughts or responses that you didn’t get to add in-meeting either because you weren’t able to attend or ran out of time feel free to add to these boards as the group will be using them as data as they continue to work towards development of a body literacy framework. Even if you didn’t make it to the event, if you are interested in this project, take a moment to complete the 5 question follow-up survey. 
 
The Bodies FLC has made a space (collaboration board) where interested faculty can share information about their teaching, research, and practice. This is a starting point to building relationships, finding faculty whose class you might want to visit, invite to guest lecture, or simply reach out to for insight and guidance. The Bodies FLC has drafted a set of prompts, but complete or ignore these or add others as you find useful; they hope this will be a flexible tool for fostering collaboration. 
 

Pratt students are confronted with the problem of representing, designing for and responding to bodies across the curriculum and in their daily lives. Too often the depth of the tools any of us have at our disposal to support this work is limited to disciplinary knowledge. Our current socio-political and digital climate demands we escape our disciplinary silos to think more broadly, share, and work collaboratively to best prepare our students and ourselves to empathically engage with the body.

In this roundtable, we present work conducted in the inaugural year of the ‘Transdisciplinary Discourse on the Body’ (TDB) FLC, including a multi-class pass-the-baton style body design assignment. Roundtable participants are asked to consider how the body is defined and approached in the context of their discipline, as we work to build a transdisciplinary framework for engagement with the body.

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This year, along with Curatorial Guest Editor Tim Cunningham (SLAS), Pratt's Center for Teaching and Learning is pleased to announce a first ever themed issue of iteratio. We will be accepting proposals around the theme Pedagogy In Flux: Innovative and Inclusive Practices for a Changing Educational Landscape.

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