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Spontaneous Shrines and The Studio Desk

Learning from Working with Objects through an Arts-Informed, Practice-Led Lens

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The short exchange presented in the prologue offers insight into why this chapter has been composed as a storied account featuring visual illustrations and the narrative elements of characters and dialogue (Barone, 2008; Coulter & Smith, 2009).

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Rak, S., Maltitz, A.C.V., Pithouse-Morgan, K. (2017). Spontaneous Shrines and The Studio Desk. In: Pillay, D., Pithouse-Morgan, K., Naicker, I. (eds) Object Medleys. New Research – New Voices. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-194-0_9

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