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.
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.
We invite educators, artists, designers, architects, researchers – and all who care about how we shape meaningful learning in a complex world – to join the conversation, where 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
Andrew Pickering, who has written the foreword to the book, will give the opening intervention entitled ‘Why this book now?’
There will also be input from four of 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
And we will have a roundtable conversation before C and M conclude the event.
Read the full event program here and find the Zoom link
Read about the book 'Creative Pragmatics for Active Learning in STEM Education' here
Connie Svabo
Professor Connie Svabo, Head of STEM Education Research Center – FNUG.
Andrew Pickering
Professor Emeritus, University of Exeter, PhD (Physics), PhD (Science Studies), has written the foreword to Creative Pragmatics and will give the opening intervention.
Michael Shanks
Professor of Classics at Stanford University, USA.
Mads Høbye
Associate Professor, Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University.
Michael Bell
Professor of Architecture at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.