{"id":593,"date":"2021-01-10T16:37:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T16:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/?page_id=593"},"modified":"2021-04-07T00:52:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T00:52:42","slug":"wall-of-plastics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/exhibit\/wall-of-plastics\/","title":{"rendered":"WALL OF PLASTICS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size has-very-light-gray-color has-very-dark-gray-background-color\">INTERRUPTING EFFICIENT PEDAGOGICAL  DEPENDENCIES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-very-light-gray-color has-very-dark-gray-background-color\"><em>Tracing the symbolic life of plastics in Andean early childhood spaces <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" autoplay loop muted src=\"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/MVI_2869.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" autoplay loop muted src=\"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/MVI_2872.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13.5px\" class=\"has-text-color has-background has-very-light-gray-color has-very-dark-gray-background-color\"><strong>DEVELOPMENTALISM: AGE-APPROPRIATE TOYS&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\" class=\"has-text-color has-background has-very-light-gray-color has-very-dark-gray-background-color\">Rooted in Euro-western histories of thought, developmental psychology proposes in image of the child that is defined by the illusion of a contextually neutral, universal baseline. Predictable, measurable and easily governed, the developing child is an intimate ally in capitalist future-making.  Progressing through the accumulative natures of \u2018ages and stages\u2019, children\u2019s knowledge is imagined within a linear trajectory that forms the three pillars neoliberal subjectivities: individualism, competition and progress.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-very-light-gray-color has-very-dark-gray-background-color\"><strong>EXTRACTION: MEMORIZABLE MATERIALS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\" class=\"has-text-color has-background has-very-light-gray-color has-very-dark-gray-background-color\">In a time of rapid technological progress and globalization, efficient pedagogies produce knowledges that are easily digestible and quickly attained. Extracting concepts from their contextual origins and compacting them into memorisable fragments, meaning becomes diluted of its relations with the living world in motion. Swallowing only the palatable bits of phenomena, children\u2019s taste for complexity becomes pacified within the<em> smooth<\/em> consumptive logics of fast, goal-oriented,&nbsp;tidy pedagogies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/IMG_2933-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"572\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/IMG_2933-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/exhibit\/img_2933\/\" class=\"wp-image-572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/IMG_2933-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/IMG_2933-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/IMG_2933-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/IMG_2933-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/IMG_2933-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/IMG_2870-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"570\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/IMG_2870-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/exhibit\/img_2870\/\" class=\"wp-image-570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/IMG_2870-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/IMG_2870-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/IMG_2870-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/IMG_2870-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/IMG_2870-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/IMG_2863-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"567\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/IMG_2863-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/exhibit\/img_2863\/\" class=\"wp-image-567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/IMG_2863-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/IMG_2863-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/IMG_2863-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/IMG_2863-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/IMG_2863-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/IMG_2863-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-text-align-right has-very-light-gray-color has-very-dark-gray-background-color\"><strong>CHILD-CENTEREDNESS: THE PURITY OF HAPPY, FUN CHILDHOODS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\" class=\"has-text-color has-background has-text-align-right has-very-light-gray-color has-very-dark-gray-background-color\">Images of fun, freely moving, innately creative children are all-too-familiar in early childhood education. Yet, pedagogies that center the individual needs of children through discourses of self-fulfilment and autonomy separate children from the non-innocent, contradictory worlds they inherit. Symbols of neoliberal fun and happiness in early childhood veil children\u2019s entanglements with\/in damaged ecologies. Plastic wrapped in dominant discourses of \u2018pure\u2019 childhood, children become isolated from the socio-political milieu in which they <strong>affect<\/strong> and are <strong>affected by<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-small-font-size has-very-light-gray-color has-very-dark-gray-background-color\"><strong>CHILD-ANIMAL RELATIONS: ANTHROPOMORPHISM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\" class=\"has-text-color has-background has-very-light-gray-color has-very-dark-gray-background-color\">Anthropomorphised animals often found in early childhood spaces tell contested stories of children\u2019s relations with animals. Cultural representations of animals as \u2018cute\u2019, friendly companions <strong>for<\/strong> children function semiotically and inform anthropocentric narratives of human superiority over natural worlds. Positioning animals as \u2018civilized\u2019 and within popular market culture, these materials may inadvertently appropriate the diversity of animal species into human-friendly forms, further distancing children from their complex relations with more-than-human worlds, across incommensurable difference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" autoplay loop muted src=\"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/MVI_2937.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" autoplay loop muted src=\"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/MVI_2867.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\">Plastic Wall by Alex Berry, Valeria Leon + Samanta Izquierda  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\">Text by Alex Berry, and in conversations with Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw and Cristina Delgado Vintimilla<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INTERRUPTING EFFICIENT PEDAGOGICAL DEPENDENCIES Tracing the symbolic life of plastics in Andean early childhood spaces DEVELOPMENTALISM: AGE-APPROPRIATE TOYS&nbsp; Rooted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574,"parent":516,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-593","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1633,"href":"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/593\/revisions\/1633"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverplasticities.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}