Creating real and imaginary worlds: Padlet as a carrier bag of fiction

<p><br></p> <p>This 20 min video presentation was co-created for the Australian Association for Research in Education online conference, November 2021</p> <p><br></p> <p>ABSTRACT: 35 years after first publication, Ursula K. Le Guin’s (1986) Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction is as pertinent as it ever was – maybe more so in a post-pandemic world – continuing to offer the conceptual tools for re-inventing our ‘realities’. Her teachings invite us to enter a space that intersects awakening and dreaming, the real and imagined. It is a space that eschews the prick-tales and grand narratives favoured by settler-colonial and neoliberal knowledge systems. It is a space where the bottle, the receptacle, the container, the holder, the carrier bag becomes the unlikely hero, whereby untold stories can be told. </p> <p><br></p> <p>In this video presentation, we show how Padlet (a free online platform) can act as a carrier bag of fiction to be filled with wonderings, creative artifacts and critical reflections which, in turn, facilitate the creation, curation, and narration of (im)possible worlds. </p>