waves of flickering murmurs in everyday life: playing between ages
ORCID
- Jan Georgeson: 0000-0003-3696-4170
- Karen Wickett: 0000-0003-2986-5078
- Dani Landau: 0009-0009-2903-8065
- Kathrin Paal: 0000-0002-4907-5228
- Joanna Haynes: 0000-0003-0510-4565
Abstract
The article explores the rich and varied experiences of a collective writing project, unfolding through an anecdote involving Charlie, a young boy who creatively disrupted conventional pho-tography methods. This incident, during an evening promenade by the sea in Ericeira (Portugal), epitomizes the project's embrace of playfulness and exploration of diverse perspectives—materialized through Charlie's playful insistence on experimenting with different angles. The event embodied the group’s approach to writing, leading to a collective inquiry into the interplay of ages, angles, and other themes like waves, threads, shadows, and liminal spaces. The project, driven by the Between Ages Collective, began with informal gatherings in Plymouth, UK, and expanded into a year-long online reading group. Participants, spanning different generations and academic stages, shared various materials, including films, picture books, and scholarly texts, which inspired individual contributions. Influenced by the Collective's colla
Publication Date
2024-10-07
Publication Title
Childhood and Philosophy
ISSN
2525-5061
Embargo Period
9999-12-31
Keywords
intergenerational; attentiveness; time; liminality; agencies
Recommended Citation
Haynes, J., Georgeson, J., Wickett, K., Andrews, M., Landau, D., Paal, K., Bush, E., Costa Carvalho, M., Johansson, V., Almeida, T., Peach, L., Caetano-Silva, G., Reynolds, R., Khosa, B., Hannam, P., Wolf, A., Blandon, C., Petropoulos, G., & Oester-Barkey, H. (2024) 'waves of flickering murmurs in everyday life: playing between ages', Childhood and Philosophy, . Retrieved from https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/sc-research/341
