Towards a Pedagogy Of Transformance

Abstract

When I am asked in Brazil where are you from? I pause for a split second. This question is asking more than just where I live. It is beginning the age-old process of identification on meeting to discover what we seem to have in common and whether our differences might threaten this community. It is interpreting whether we have any living histories or desires whose ‘chance’ meeting might unknowingly and even unintentionally provoke a dangerous confrontation in the space where we have crossed paths. For the histories or imagined futures that link nations, classes, genders, races and generations - and how their effects accumulate, overlap, confront, disperse and return - are lived or imagined by and through individuals and their communities in real places and through real everyday objects.