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Mapping the Ephemeral: Visualizing the Hidden Care Work of Knowledge Making

Jennifer Foley

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Welcome to our shared space for the next 2hrs!

Feel free to introduce yourself in the chat.

Invitation to Engage and Access Check

• Diverse ways we are entering the space today
• Multimodal participation 
• Off-white slide background
• Image descriptions and Alt-Text provided
• Share in chat or unmute to speak
• Captions available

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Terminology and Context 

Material Practice for Meaning Making

• Making is a way of thinking, knowing, and communicating
• Working with materials surfaces embodied, and relational knowledge.
• Meaning emerges through the process of making, not only the finished artefact.

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Ephemeral

• Temporary, fleeting, or short-lived
• Often overlooked or undocumented
• Holds value even if it does not last

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Artefact

• A material or digital trace of a project or experience
• Holds meaning beyond its practical function
• Serves as evidence of how meaning is created, not just what is created

Goals for our session

Today we will aim to collectively:

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Create...

• Space to remember
• Maps, collections, reflections

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Surface...

• Meaningful moments
• Invisible and forgotten acts of care

Introduction to me and my work

• My name is Jennifer Foley
• I am a Mother, a Wife, a Sister, a Daughter
• I currently work as an education developer
• I am located in London, Ontario in Canada
• Love to explore information and knowledge sharing, craft and art as method, identity exploration, reflective practice

Process & Product

Which side is usually...​

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• Displayed?​
• Celebrated?​
• Remembered? ​
• Acknowledged?

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Take a moment to recall...

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• What is a project you've completed or goal you've reached recently?��
• What was the final product?

Think Backwards...

• What ideas, exchanges, and interactions happened in the process of developing the final product?

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• Were they celebrated?

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• Are there any traces of these interactions?

Resurfacing and Gathering

• A list of all the books people recommended to you, who made the recommendation, and why
• Copy and paste quotes from past emails conversations into a Word Document
• Gather sticky notes from your desk
• Listen to old voice memos and voicemails
• Look at your bookmarks folder and old Teams chat messages for links people shared
• Revist your AI Chatbot history to unearth forgotten conversations and questions
• Close your eyes and think back to a time during the creation of this product where you interacted with someone. Record that memory in writing or audio
• Organize saved pdfs shared by colleagues into labelled desktop folders
• Find a draft version of a published written piece. Look for comments and suggestions left by editors

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Collect screenshots, photos, or excerpts from these findings

Surfacing Your Ephemera (25 mins)

Take some quiet, introspective space to jot down, collect, or sketch out some of these hidden contributions from your project

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• Micro-Artifacts: Emails, voice notes, instant messages or DMs, shared social media threads, handwritten notes
• Human Connections: The peers who read rough drafts, the mentors who offered emotional validation, the family members who held space
• Relational Moments: A walk that cleared a mental block, a coffee chat that shifted a research direction.

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Share your experience...

• Gathering materials
• Revisiting exchanges
• Remembering past moments
• Searching for evidence of interactions
• Retracing your steps

Break (10 mins)

Redefining Mapping

• Mapping as interpretive, not objective.
• Your creative map is a representation of your process
• Information encoding

Some Approaches to Creative Mapping

Written 

• Annotate final text with sticky notes and quotes� 

Audio 

• Record an interview or conversation 
• Sound collage
• Collect sounds, short voice notes, music clips

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Tactile ​

• Build with LEGO 
• Use yarn  to show connections between artefacts
• Sew, knit, quilt

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Movement ​

• Walk while recording thoughts ​
• Video recording ​
• Move objects around a desk ​

Digital ​​

• Mind map ​​with programs like Miro of Zoom Whiteboard
• Use programs like Canva or Google Slides ​​to create a collage ​​of images
• Organize artefacts into desktop folders ​​ ​​
• Obsidian notes graph ​​

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Josef Koudelka, Next: A Visual Biography: Ten Questions for Melissa Harris

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�Architectural Portfolio v2. (2020-2022)by Mine Öztürk

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Mary E. Hutchinson: The Absence of an Oeuvre, 2012

Activity: Map Your Project

Instructions:

• Start a blank page (virtual or physical). Welcome to use shared Google Slides
• Write the title of your project, a few descriptive words, or add an image that represents it.
• Begin to organize your artefacts and make connections. 

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As you map, it may be helpful to ask yourself:

• Who or what has influenced the project?
• Are there other records or material traces of your interactions, moments of connection, and idea sharing or can you make a record of them now?
• What other projects or experiences does it connect to?
• What materials, methods, or tools shape the work?
• What questions or tensions are still unfolding?
• What feels central? What sits at the margins?
• What unexpected connections emerge?

Activity: Gallery Rooms

This is an opportunity to share your mapping project with peers and/or reflect

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Breakout Rooms Option A:

• Silent Reflection
• Continuing to map independently

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Breakout Rooms Option B:

• Sharing your map (final or in progress)
• Discussing your process
• Sharing your plan for future engagement
• Listening and encouraging

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Gallery Reflection Prompt Card

I notice...

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Something I want to acknowledge in my own work...

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Something I connected with...

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I wonder...�________________________________________________________

Group Share & Revisiting Our Why�

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What will you carry forward from today?

I used to think meaningful work looked like...

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Now I notice...

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One invisible contribution I want to acknowledge is...

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One practice I want to carry forward is...

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Thank you for joining today!

Forthcoming OER workbook sign-up:

Crafting Your Teaching Dossier: A Relational, Embodied Approach to Teaching Identity Development and Articulation https://forms.gle/3LJfTck5VvugvMuG9   

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Jennifer Foley

Educational Developer, Western University

jfoley26@uwo.ca