tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2127680076264956287.post1632161216718407981..comments2024-02-26T04:05:25.192-08:00Comments on The Orchard Garden: Welcome to the outdoor classroom installationeducationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13485597439720299803noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2127680076264956287.post-68589051536673869892012-07-31T10:14:42.836-07:002012-07-31T10:14:42.836-07:00yay! glad you have begun this process, Julia! as...yay! glad you have begun this process, Julia! as one who is intimate with this garden space, your installation has certainly altered the dynamics of a largely agricultural growing space by introducing a monoculture of one of our favourite plants. at the same time, your 'desks' arranged in linear rows also echo the 'efficient', 'productive' rows that agriculture usually embraces. i'm interested in the choice of plants and how we learn through these- my experiences of sharing foods with children and having discourses around how we learn in embodied ways, through our tongues, nostrils, hearts and fingertips... wondering if we do the same in indoor classrooms in implicit ways, and how moving through your flax desks feels similarly or different to walking to the front of an indoor classroom... -DjamilaKate Petrusahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16737963022374334536noreply@blogger.com