1st Edition

Fieldnotes from the Edges of Higher Arts Education Intra-active Pedagogies for Urgent Times

Edited By Annouchka Bayley Copyright 2026
276 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume explores emergent practices in higher education pedagogy that use the arts, new materialisms, posthumanisms, and radical pedagogies to intra-actively reconfigure approaches to transdisciplinary learning and teaching. Against the backdrop of AI acceleration, pandemic responsiveness, forced migration, genocide, and socio-political upheaval, our ability to reconfigure the practice of... Read more

Part I: Experiments in Intra-active Pedagogies

 

Chapter One: The Shell of Venus: Subjects, Objects, and New Materialist Sensations

Annouchka Bayley

 

Chapter Two: Complexity: What Do Notions of Diffraction, Apparatus, and Ontologies of Motion Allow Us To Do?

Annouchka Bayley

 

Chapter Three: Measuring, Performativity, and Flow as Pedagogy-in-Motion

Annouchka Bayley

 

Chapter Four: Pluriverses, Many-Worlds, and Fictioning Pedagogies

Annouchka Bayley

 

Chapter Five: Assessments and Dark Objects or How to Index Pedagogic Intra-activity in an Age of Large-Language-Models

Annouchka Bayley

 

Part II: Experiments in Intra-Active Thesis Writing: Some Examples

 

Chapter Six: Listening Evocations or Evocative Listening: Exploring the Emergences from Sound/Silence/Stillness in Research and Learning Spaces

Girinandini Singh

 

Chapter Seven: No Beginning, Middle or End

Sasha Desouza-Willock

 

Chapter Eight: Learning in Love: The Generative Nature of Research in Close Relationships

Linh S. Nguyn

 

Chapter Nine: A Message to the Adults

Bella Cavicchi

 

Chapter Ten: The Pedagogy of Hugging: Conceptualising Hugging in Pedagogical Spaces as a Way of Resistance

Yuanting Qiu

 

Chapter Eleven: Untitled

Yueran Yang

Biography

Annouchka Bayley is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK.