Co-creating transdisciplinary place-responsive pedagogy: attuning to place and edu-crafting speculative higher education

This article describes the posthumanist edu-crafting process of a teacher-researcher and three student-researchers, who explored ‘what happens if’ teachers and students collaboratively create art-science transdisciplinary higher education pedagogy from and in response to place, to remake education in a time of ecological collapse. By immersing this remaking process in the littoral zone at Hoek van Holland, the Netherlands – to which the research team’s university is intimately connected – the researchers endeavoured to attune to place through multisensory workshops and let it inform the co-creation of a speculative place-responsive curriculum. The posthumanist approach of edu-crafting, a collaborative open-ended inquiry process that combines research, learning and creating education, ensured consistency with place-responsive pedagogy’s relational ontology and aim of decentring the human in education. The account shows how engaging in collaborative, multisensory edu-crafting in place became the enactment of the transdisciplinary place-responsive curriculum the researchers were aiming to develop.