Place Listening Assemblage (ECOLN 2025)

This recording is a live recording of our creative research in the STEM Learning Ecologies: Listening In/Sounding Out project. Presented at the 2025 ECO Learning Network Conference at the Royal Melbourne Botanical Gardens, this sonic assemblage captures the final part of our session, where participants actively engaged in Listening In and Sounding Out within the Botanical Gardens (Wurundjeri-Woiwurrung and Boon Wurrung/Bunurong Country).

Sally Brady and Justin MacArthur, represented the Gowrie South Australia research team with Jayson Cooper where they shared and invited participants to follow the processes developed from our research and Gowrie SA Bush Kindy program. This sonic assemblage articulates co-create multimodal learning using place-responsive pedagogies.

In this recording we illustrate the potential of collaborative sonic pedagogies that intensify ecological understandings and relations with Aboriginal Country, at the same time innovating new pedagogies and documentation processes that live in the in-between intersections of STEM and creative research practices in the early years.