Performed by Ecology
‘Secret Love of Trees’ Project
Anne Lise Nordbø is a senior lecturer in drama and theatre.
Research focus: performative events, stage playrooms, democracy, ecology and sustainability.
Performed by Ecology
Research Project: How to investigate boundaries between what we categorise as inanimate or animate in eco-philosophical thinking? I have studied how imagination and fantasy, inspired by post human theory of a balanced relationship (reciprocal) between all organic beings, influenced students´ awareness of and presence in nature.
Together with a colleague, I presented a group of early childhood education students to several artistic research methods and performative methods. We wanted to see possible changes in the student’s dedication to eco-consciousness to influence their pedagogical stands. We provided the students with embodied experience in a forest and prolonged engagement with a particular tree, and a fantasy journey in drama. The students documented visualisations and imagination of feelings and senses of the inner life of an imaginary tree.
Kershaws (2007) concept performed by ecology may illustrate how the forest acted towards students embodied experience, imagination and empathy. Findings will be published 2021 in Eco-pedagogical and A/r/tigraphical Walking: Kinship, Nature & Relationality.