Micro-phenomenology of nature
Led by
Claire Petitmengin (Archives Husserl, ENS Paris)
Contact
Claire Petitmengin <cp@clairepetitmengin.fr>
Funding
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Status
Ongoing (2020–)
Summary
This study explores the hypothesis that our way of life and the ecological disaster it is bringing about originates in our blindness to what is nevertheless closest to us: our own lived experience, and notably its “felt” dimension, where the separation that we usually think we perceive between “inner” and “outer” spaces becomes permeable and even vanishes.
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Publications
Petitmengin, C. (2021). Anchoring in lived experience as an act of resistance. Constructivist Foundations, 16(2), 172-181. https://constructivist.info/16/2/172
Photo by: Wynn Bullock
ExCoNat
Investigating the Experience of Connection to Nature
Summary
How can our lived experience contribute to renewing our relationship with ourselves, with others and with the world in a more caring and respectful way? How does our bodily experience contribute to a form of knowledge that brings us closer to what is alive in us and around us?
Our project aims at exploring and documenting the experience of connection/disconnection with nature (trees, fields, wind, rain, stones, animals, ...) and other people, based on micro-phenomenological interviews. We will accompany people to describe their experience of one or more moments in which they felt that the degree of their connection with nature varied (increase or decrease).
ExCoNat aims at contributing to the fields of eco-psychology - understanding how people manage to regain contact with their own experience and how the experience of the unity of "human beings" and "nature" emerge – and educational sciences – broadening our conceptions of knowledge and knowing and understanding how contemplative pedagogies allow (or not) the relation between inter- being and our inner being.
Led by
Magali Ollagnier-Beldame (CNRS)
Véronique Servais (Université de Liège)
Pietro Varrasso (Conservatoire Royal de Liège)
Contact
Magali Ollagnier-Beldame <magali.ollagnier-
beldame@ens-lyon.fr>
Véronique Servais <v.servais@ulg.ac.be>
Funding
Pépinière interdisciplinaire « Laboratoire de
L’Education », UMS CNRS 3773
Status
Ongoing (2021–)
Led by
Zoe Latham
Professor Robert Brown
Contact
Zoe Latham <zoe.latham@plymouth.ac.uk>
Funding
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Status
Ongoing (2018–2022)
Summary
This research argues for a re-conceptualisation and extension of place and landscape within architectural praxis, reflecting an understanding of landscape as a spatialisation of cultural imaginings and their capacity to engender identity and belonging. The intent of the research and of this talk is not to redefine landscape as such, but rather better understand phenomena that inform a greater connectivity between cognitive and bodily experience and the environment in turn drawing upon this insight to expand architectural discourse with an anthropologic and phenomenological sense of place.
Casting a line to place
Embodied rituals, cultural landscapes and their potential to (re)connect
"Seeing Our Future Together": Phenomenology of Indigenous Women's Experience of Self-organization for the Common Good
Led by
Litzuli Zarate PhD - Lead researcher (Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro)
Contact
Litzuli Zarate <litzuli.zarate@gmail.com>
Funding
SECIHTI scholarship (Mexican Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation)
Status
Published (Jan 2021–Dec 2024)
Summary
Context:
According to the UN, 80% of global biodiversity is located within Indigenous territories. In Mexico, nearly half of the land is Indigenous and mestizo communities common land, many of whom live in poverty. Since the 1970s, development projects have produced limited economic benefits while generating significant social and ecological impacts. Self-organized community initiatives have become increasingly relevant as alternatives that integrate social, cultural, ecological, and economic well-being.
Problem: Empirical evidence that appeals to human self-interest suggests that human beings are incapable of self-organizing for the common good. However, some groups have historically succeeded. Through a multitude of variables, members of these groups share a subjective experience described as "seeing our future together." Reflecting a perception of interdependence as a quality of reality which, although often veiled, enables collaboration.
Method: To study this lived experience, interviews were conducted with Indigenous women experts in community self-organization. Applying ethnomicro-phenomenology, a designed interdisciplinary methodology combining ethnographic and micro-phenomenological methods.
Keywords: self-organization, lived experience, Indigenous, interdependence, micro-phenomenology, collective consciousness