SWISP
SWISP is an interdisciplinary research lab and speculative thinking consultancy based in Narrm, Melbourne.
SWISP (Speculative Wanderings in Space and Place) is a community of interdisciplinary practitioners working in the fields of speculative a/r/tography, pluricreativities, digital childhoods, digital methods, digital education, and digital scholarships in the humanities, arts and social sciences.
SWISP (Speculative Wanderings in Space and Place) is a community of interdisciplinary practitioners based in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia) working in the fields of speculative a/r/tography, digital creativities, digital childhoods, digital methods, digital education, and digital scholarships in the humanities, arts and social sciences.
SWISP seeks to speculate as a/r/tographers about reparative futures in the midst of climate collapse. We entangle our research pathways in this collective to pose questions, break, disrupt and wander with/in multigenerational connected communities. Our work seeks to move in and out, over and under, through and within spaces and places while knitting together disparate cites/sites/sights in a metagalaxy of ideas, wonderings and speculations. ORCID LinkedIn
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SWISP Lab x Teachers in Radical Residency: Master of Teaching, Work Integrated Learning (June, 2024)
Over the last two weeks SWISP Lab have had three excellent teacher candidates from the Faculty of Education in radical residency for their WIL Capstone projects. What is WIL you ask? Work Integrated Learning (WIL) is an umbrella term used to describe a variety of learning experiences which integrate academic theory with authentic real-world work experiences. […]
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What have SWISP Lab been up to?
A few months ago SWISP lab facilitated Mediator Hacks in partnership with Science Gallery Mediators in Melbourne and Atlanta making it number three (Bengaluru, Atlanta, Melbourne) across the Science Gallery International network. See Hacking the Anthropocene: cross-network research and pedagogy for climate action for more information. Science Gallery Atlanta Mediator Hack co-design workshop, 2024 So […]
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Embracing the Future of Learning through Speculative Design
“In a world of uncertainty where school was so bland, where subjects were so bleak, where students were so bored” (FoL co-designer, 2023), we introduce the Futures of Learning Research Exhibition and launch the Futures of Learning Speculative Co-Design Toolkit, created by young people and teachers for young people and teachers in partnership with SWISP […]
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Hacking the Anthropocene: Climate stories between art and science in Bengaluru
SWISP Lab and Science Gallery Bengaluru (SGB) in partnership with the University of Melbourne facilitated two workshops at Infosys Science Foundation to hack living in Anthropocene. We invited young people aged 15-28 years old to join us at the intersection of creative and scientific inquiry and explore the ways that we become scicurious together in […]
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SWISPy resident education internships
In 2023 SWISP Lab was lucky to have two Master of Teaching, Faculty of Education internships take up residency in SWISP lab as part of their Capstone WIL (work integrated learning experience). Work-integrated learning is a form of curricular experiential education that formally integrates academic studies with quality learning experiences within a workplace or practice setting […]
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HAK.io Exhibit at COP28 UAE 11 December, 2023
UN Climate Change News, 13 December 2023 – The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) closed with an agreement that signals the “beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era by laying the ground for a swift, just and equitable transition, underpinned by deep emissions cuts and scaled-up finance. Credit: Kiara Worth | UN Climate […]
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SWISP Lab x Emory University Side Event at COP28UAE
Youth Actions for Anthropogenic Times Date and Time: Sat, 09 Dec 2023, 13:15-14:45 Location: Blue Zone, Room: SE Room 5 In this UNFCCC COP28 Side-Event: Youth Voices for Climate Action we highlighted youth working in different ways to mitigate and adapt to climate change with our partners. Our panel included youth working on climate research, art, […]
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SWISP Lab x Science Gallery Bengaluru Carbon Mediators: Playing HAK.io ‘off beat’
Co-designed by Carbon Mediators X SWISP Lab. Step 1 Assemble Carbon icebreaker: word prompt generation – what are the uses of Carbon in daily life? (5 mins of activity). Everyone generates word in response to ‘what are the uses of Carbon in daily life?‘ and writes it on a post-it-note. What if the group gets […]
Who is SWISP?
DIRECTORS
Associate Professor Kate Coleman
Kate is co-lead of SWISP with Dr Sarah Healy and CI on ‘The Learning with the Land’, SSHRC project in the Faculty of Education. Her pluridisciplinary research and teaching are positioned in the intersection of art, design, digital, practice, culture, and data. Kate’s research into practice includes digital practices and immersive data sites, creativities, speculative inquiry, and data creation with young people living in the midst of climate collapse. ORCID
Sarah is co-lead of SWISP with Dr Kate Coleman. She is an inaugural Melbourne Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Education, The University of Melbourne. Best known for her contributions to the fields of critical affect studies, digital methods and the posthumanities, Sarah’s interdisciplinary program of research involves research collaborations with academics, artists, practitioners and educators from around the world. ORCID
INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS
The social practice component of SWISP Lab’s program of research is made possible through international partnerships. A key collaborator is the Science Gallery International Network. Science Gallery Bengaluru is a major contributor to this collaboration. An aim of SWISP Lab is to form connections with organisations in India that share Science Gallery Bengaluru’s mission and values and would like to explore how an international partnership with an Australia research team could be beneficial. The following 38 minute video, “International partnerships in Anthropogenic times: Engaging in creative inquiry” features critical reflections on the complexities of India-Australia partnerships by SWISP Lab, Science Gallery Bengaluru and the Council for Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW).
PARTNERS AND COLLABORATORS
Science Gallery Network | The Science Gallery Network consists of leading universities united around a singular mission: to ignite creativity and discovery where science and art collide. The galleries of the Science Gallery Network are committed to bringing science, art, technology and design together to deliver world-class educational and cultural experiences for young people.
Associate Professor Eri Saikawa | Emory Climate Talks | ORCID | Eri conducts interdisciplinary research on the environment. Eri has worked on diverse projects that cover: 1) atmospheric chemistry (modelling aerosols and tropospheric ozone); 2) environmental health (assessing the adverse health impacts of air pollution); 3) biogeochemistry (modelling global soil nitrous oxide emissions); 4) climate science (estimating emissions of non-CO2 greenhouse gases), and 5) environmental policy/politics (analyzing the impacts of environmental standards and trade as well as analysing policymaking processes).
Council on Energy, Environment and Water | CEEW is one of Asia’s leading not-for-profit policy research institutions. CEEW uses data, integrated analysis, and strategic outreach to explain – and change – the use, reuse, and misuse of resources.
Global Childhoods Research Hub | Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne | The GCRH position’s children’s lives, worldviews and futures at its core. It connects childhood research and teaching in a clear and cohesive manner, bringing projects from leading academics, early career-researchers, research fellows and doctoral students together around interdisciplinary themes and research problems; including those related to equity, social justice and disadvantage, climate change and sustainability, contemporary learning ecologies, multimodal lives, education systems and children as activists. The focus of Global Childhoods Research Hub is on the lives and experiences of children from birth to 18 years of age across the world.
What does a (s)wisp do in Minecraft? A wisp, when found, circles around a wall with a interactable brick. It disappears quickly after touching the hero. When clicked, the wall opens up and reveals a hidden room that occasionally contains six emerald pots, a common chest, or an obsidian chest.
SWISP acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the stolen land on which we practice, research, teach and learn. We offer respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Elders, past and present. In the spirit of reconciliation we acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and their continuing connections to land, sea, sky and community. What Country are you on? Native Digital Land might help you locate it.