Through layering aesthetic experiences involving the senses, the body and materials, we can explore some of the centralising discourses that frame our roles as educators, and in turn begin to imagine how we could forge new relationships with our students, new ways of being that encompass who we are, and the places that shape us. This process, captured by the metaphor of the garden, which itself is layered with different media, texts and poetry, invites relational and ethically-grounded possibilities to the question, how can we re-imagine our spaces and work as educators? We respond to this question by engaging in physical making practices with each other, spaces and multiple materials. Both makers and researchers of our own making, we continually seek to re-make the texture and fabric of who we are and what we do, bringing different perspectives from diverse communities (ecologies) together.

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