Plans for Semester 2

Hi everyone, I hope your term 2 has now settled after all the online learning! I guess it isn't too far off from holidays and I am sure everyone will appreciate the break to recoup. I just thought I would share some of my plans for my upcoming study leave (only 2 weeks to go - not that I am counting :)). I have already begun to plan out my time and am really looking forward to starting with some deep reading of key texts in the arts and literacy. I am definitely going to return to Susan Langer, Maxine Greene and John Dewey's work. These have been highly influential in my learning and research. I am also wanting to explore some new concepts. One is the term umvelt - a German word which means "the world as it is experienced by a particular organism" with umvelten all being different from one organism/person/plant to another. I came across this term when visiting Tallin in Estonia. I happened upon a beautiful museum that featured blown glass objects. You wouldn't really know it was there unless you saw it :) One of the glass artists talked about umvelt and how it impacted on their practice. It really drew me in. I am also going to continue my work in aesthetics and beauty so am definitely going to be doing some serious bush walking along the way. I will probably keep jotting down some of my thoughts along the way. Hope you enjoy them ;)
​GB