| Title | 7. Becoming wildly nomadic with the Nomadic Detective Agency-Assemblage |
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| Contributor | Mark Ingham (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0462.07 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0462/chapters/10.11647/obp.0462.07 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Mark Ingham; |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2025-07-02 |
| Long abstract | This experimental “unessay” explores the concept of becoming wildly nomadic as a lens for envisioning hopeful futures in creative Higher Education. Structured as a play, each “act” is inspired by a different plateau from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s 1980 book A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. The narrative employs the fictional Nomadic Detective Agency-Assemblage (NDA-A) as a creative device to navigate the philosophical ideas within A Thousand Plateaus and to rethink and reimagine education more hopefully. Through its experimental form, this work aims to evoke joyful and just approaches to developing new educational practices, policies, and pedagogies for the universities of the future. By emphasising collective action and envisioning transformative possibilities, it seeks to inspire ways to collaboratively build a more just and equitable educational landscape for all. |
| Page range | pp. 85–94 |
| Print length | 10 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
As an educator, artist, and researcher, Mark Ingham’s pedagogical enquires and creative practices over the last thirty years have been entangled encounters with: images of thought and memory, rhizomatic and meta-cognitive learning theories, fuzzy narratives, and virtual and physical liminal teaching spaces. Mark’s research is an adventure into relationships between autobiographical memory and photography, Deleuzian and Guattarian ideas of “becoming rhizomatic”, assembling agency, nomadic thinking, active blended learning, mixed with ideas of belonging and critical pedagogies. He is a Reader in Critical and Nomadic Pedagogies, a National Teaching Fellow (2021), Co-Chair of University of the Arts London (UAL)’s Professoriate, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a UAL Senior Teaching Scholar. He is the co-founder of UAL’s Experimental Pedagogies Research Group (EPRG): https://eprg.arts.ac.uk/, and assembled the Nomadic Detective Agency at https://nomadicdetectiveagency.org/ and artist at: https://markingham.org/