Creative Pragmatics, Learning in the Making, a Live Online Conversation, October 8, 5-6 PM

Creative Pragmatics: Learning in the Making explores how knowledge can be approached as something alive, situated, and spatially mediated. This online book release features Andrew Pickering, Professor Emeritus at the University of Exeter, who has written the foreword to the book and will open the program with a short intervention: “Why this book now?”.

We mark the ongoing journey of the book Creative Pragmatics for Active Learning in STEM Education (Springer, 2025) – a trans-disciplinary call for education that engages complexity through design, practice, and process.

In this conversation, we ask:

How can education feel alive, situated, and relational?
What does it mean to design learning beyond content delivery?
How do we navigate complexity without falling into paralysis or control?
How is design itself a way of thinking, knowing, intervening

This event is for educators, artists, designers, architects, researchers – and all who care about how we shape meaningful learning in a complex world.

PROGRAM

17:00-17:05	Welcome and framing Connie Svabo
17:05-17:10	Opening Intervention Andrew Pickering: "Why this book now?"
17:10-17:30	Short Inputs from the Book's Contributors Michael Shanks - Knowing in a Complex World Mads Høbye - Learning through Making Maiken Westen Holm Svendsen - Assessment as Performative Educational Practice Michael Bell - Design Studio for Active Learning
17:30-17.50	Roundtable Conversation “What does it mean to design knowledge as something alive?” “Where do you see Creative Pragmatics already happening?” “How does it resonate with your current learning spaces?” And any other matters of interest. Moderated by Connie Svabo
17:50-18:00	Wrap-up & Thank You Connie Svabo & Michael Shanks

Find the description of the book Creative Pragmatics here

Read a presentation of the book here

Read Chapter 1 (open access)

When and Where?

Wednesday, October 8, 5-6 PM

Online, Zoom-link

Presenters

Andrew Pickering, Professor Emeritus, University of Exeter, PhD (Physics), PhD (Science Studies).
Opening Intervention

Michael Shanks, Professor of Classics Faculty, Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University.
Knowing in a Complex World

Mads Høbye, Associate Professor, Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University.
Learning Through Making

Maiken Svendsen, Ph.D. Student, STEM Education Research Center - FNUG, University of Southern Denmark.
Assessment as Performative Educational Practice

Michael Bell, Professor, Columbia University.
Design Studio for Active Learning

Moderator

Connie Svabo, Professor, Head of STEM Education Research Center – FNUG, University of Southern Denmark.

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