#situatedknowledge

[blacklifescience]

Radical Constructivism versus Feminist Critical Empiricism

Radical Constructivism - Radical constructivism puts the individual’s interactions, interpretations, and equilibrations with all externalities at the center of knowledge construction. This theory of learning has implications for the nature of reality; an objective reality cannot come to be known, so positivist and post positivist positions are untenable.

Feminist Critical Empiricism - Feminist empiricism makes the allied claim that scientific method is not effective at eliminating social biases that are as wide spread as androcentricism. Feminist empiricists claim that sexism and androcentrism in scientific inquiry are entirely the consequence of badly done science. Sexist and androcentric distortions in the results of research in biology and the social sciences are caused by social biases. Harding describes feminist empiricism as an attempt to resolve the sexism and androcentrism of current science by arguing that these are “social biases correctable by stricter adherence to the existing methodological norms of scientific inquiry”

[laterinacaruccia]

Apologizing for the impetuous irruption in the landscape. mask, performance, video Groppo di Riomaggiore, 30 November 2020 The action started around one hour before the sunset, and ended with the rst coming darkness. For the action I created two Camouflaged View-Finder, procedural artefacts made out of the most present plants in the wild elds: Erica and Thorn Blackberry.

By making these prototypes I studied the materiality of the plants that grow more around Cinque Terre when nobody shows up and the soil decides for itself. I challenged the exibility of the little final branches of Erica, covered with little green needle-shaped leaves which easily fall when the branch is not attached anymore to the trunk. Therefore, the robustness of my skin was tested by the spines of the Blackberry while I tried to arrange the spiky branches in a rounded shape. The intention behind these artefacts was to enact a mimesis with the environment and so try to enter smoothly in a metamorphosis from a human body into part of the landscape.

We put the artefacts on our head and let them partially cover our eyes, so our view was modi ed. This helped us to forget about the human capability of distinguishing all the elements of the surrounding and immerge in the situation. The usual human mobility was de-established as well, and thanks to our partially-blind stillness the Others started again to show them- selves. A lot of birds started chatting with each other, singing and whistling in the bushes. One, two, three di erent singings! Some cars still resonated in the background, but they started loosing in importance and the sound of the river overlaid that noise. The light was changing and so the temperature, the colours of the late evening adhered on every surfaces and a wintery breeze reminded me of my human nature. I ended my listening and gently posed the Erica-crown on the top of an old Pine’s trunk wonderfully covered by a splendid shine green Ivy necklace. Enrico didn’t move yet, still in his experience, his eyes covered with Blackberry’s leaves. He set down inside a huge coat, in the middle of a metamorphoses into a dark rock. After few more minutes he also opened the human eyes and left the crown on a branch of a tree wear in yellow. (excerpt from “More-than-human Body. A performative-based exploration to understand if and how a human-flash-and-bones body could be a facilitator in the communication and understanding of Nature” a work within my research at MA Eco-Social Design Unibz)

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[etoiberion]

[...] while readiness to recognize alternative worlds may be liberating, and suggestive of new avenues of exploration, a willingness to welcome all worlds builds none. Mere acknowledgement of the many available frames of reference provides us with no map of the motions of heavenly bodies; acceptance of the eligibility of alternative bases produces no scientific theory or philosophical system; awareness of varied ways of seeing paints no pictures. A broad mind is no substitute for hard work.

Nelson Goodman, Ways of Worldmaking

[talkingshiit-blog]

My Toilet

My house consists of two females, two males, and one dog. This is the communal toilets that everyone in my family use, including my dog, whose water is found here.

So this is my toilet

It’s one of three

That everybody can use

Except gracie.

[talkingshiit-blog]

Morning Pee

In the morning from 7:30 to 8:30 the sun streams in and heats the toilet seat up, like a natural heater. 

[talkingshiit-blog]

Caroma

My toilet is designed and manufactured by a company called Caroma. The company was established in 1941 and introduced the first dual flush system. The tiny orange label is situated at the center of the toilet bowl. The person who made the toilet is unknown to me, however the company manufactures are outside of Australia. This highlights that I have become dematerialized form the process of who is making toilets, and what materials were used. I have become dematerialized from the process even though this product is central to my livelihood.

[thestvan]

Weaving and reed works

Multihabitar research project

Some time ago we became interested in Mediterranean reed (cane) as a construction material and we learned some of the techniques in different workshops. Since then we have sought other ways to build using this material, which is so common in the (spanish) Levant by their abundance and accessibility. While we research other construction techniques with grasses such as bamboo, one of our main investigations was focused on developing a Mediterranean cane module covered with mud. To do this we built this weaving loom that streamlines the reeds weave and helps us to imagine new modules. We did it thanks to the knowledge of Pepe Cabrera, a reed artisan. We have created the following reed pergola to generate a shadow in a courtyard of a house.