Meshworking: A feminist-decolonial workshop in visualizing distributed-togetherness and contemporary entrepreneurial knowledge-production
Meshworking: A feminist-decolonial workshop in visualizing distributed-togetherness and contemporary entrepreneurial knowledge-production
Submitter: Nadine Tanio, University of California, Irvine, ntanio@uci.edu
Abstract:
In Questing Excellence, Sørensen and Traweek (2022) introduce “meshworking”—the creation of lateral, woven, and intersectional webs of relationships—to characterize how scientific knowledge is constructed, replicated, and distributed across entrepreneurial academia in ways that may refuse dominant hierarchical models. In this session, we use meshworking as a formation and practice to make visible and create networks of collaboration, knowledge-production, and solidarity that resist dominant organizing principles. We engage participants across three meshwork formations: theoretical, experimental, and operational. In theoretical meshwork, we discuss an interlaced theory-structure linking scientific imaginaries, STS-research (Murillo et al, 2012), decolonial social-movement practices (Escobar, 2008), and the craftwork of Ruth Asawa (Schenkenberg, 2019) to reveal the diversity, fluidity, and potential adaptations (Magaña, 2010) of meshwork formations. In experimental meshwork, we share our existing meshworking practices–an exquisite collaborative memorial archive (https://aaa.org.hk/en/collections/search/library/an-exquisite-corpse-experiments-in-practicing-better-relations-as-scholars-during-uncertain-times, 2021). Finally, we will operationalize meshwork formations through participatory design and distributing “cultural probes” which, once returned, will be used to visualize the meshworking practices of distributed-together scholars. In doing so, this workshop provides an alternative format to render visible not-seen or not-yet-understood meshworks that constitute the livable spaces within the neoliberal worlds of 4S, the academy, and beyond.
Areas of STS Scholarship: Method and Practice, Decolonial and Postcolonial STS, Feminist STS
Authors/Participants: Nadine Tanio, University of California, Irvine
Jade Vu Henry, University College London (UCL)
Lisa Lehner, Cornell University
Christine Maria Kaiser, School of Creative Media - City University Hong Kong
Kay Mei Ling Beadman
Michael Leung, School of Creative Media
Helen Beetham, University of Wolverhampton
Megan Olinger, City University of Hong Kong
Riar Rizaldi, City University of Hong Kong
CHEN HUANG, City University of Hong Kong
Anton Dragan Maslic, City University of Hong Kong
