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

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

Read a presentation of the book here

When and Where?

Wednesday, October 8, 5-6 PM

Presenters

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

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

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

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

, Professor,  Columbia University.
Design Studio for Active Learning

Moderator

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

 

 

 

Last Updated 05.09.2025