Research Thread #1
Shifting Knowledge Ecologies:
What does it mean to produce knowledge in a time when the foundations of knowledge itself are shifting?
There is good reason to believe that we are living through a shift in epistemes — that the historical and philosophical underpinnings which have long governed the production of knowledge are changing. These underpinnings include, but are not limited to, the institutional contexts in which knowledge is produced, the values that drive inquiry, and the very truth claims we rely on to orient ourselves. This opens up a range of questions that are at once intellectually compelling and practically urgent — and questions, too, that are not easily explored within existing knowledge regimes, which tend to reproduce academic and institutional constraints even when they are trying to move beyond them.
These questions range from the fundamental nature and purpose of scientific inquiry, to the methods, frameworks, and truth claims that guide research in practice. It is, in short, an open and generative moment — and although the scope of these questions is monumental, making sense of them is both a necessary task and itself an expression of the shift underway. While there are many ways to approach this transition, one useful framework is the move from a representational to a performative idiom in science and research: a shift that treats truth claims not as static representations of a fixed world, but as living, situated, and consequential acts within it.
Research Thread #2
Shifting Knowledge Ecologies:What does it mean to produce knowledge in a time when the foundations of knowledge itself are shifting?
The scale, complexity, and urgency of the transformations currently underway — or failing to be underway — along with the sheer volume of information surrounding them, make it essential to have clear and workable frameworks for navigating change. A theory of change is one such framework: a way of asking how research or science can be genuinely and fundamentally transformative, rather than simply reproducing the institutional forms it nominally seeks to move beyond.
Many theories of change already exist and offer valuable orientations. Some focus on seed forms — small, living demonstrations of different ways of organizing life that can spread and proliferate. Others center prefigurative politics, commons-based governance, or systemic leverage points. Each has its strengths and its appropriate domain.
The theory of change at the center of this research places livelihoods at its heart: the project of making sense of, and actively performing, new ways of inhabiting the earth. Here, the philosophical framework of geophilosophy — thinking that begins from place, land, and material dwelling rather than from abstract universals — offers a meaningful guide, alongside growing bodies of work on regeneration, post-growth economies, and the practical reinvention of everyday life. Livelihoods, in this sense, are not merely an economic category. They are a site where epistemology, ethics, and practice converge.
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