Exhibitions closes its doors
The exhibition “Reinventing Touch. Sensory practices in digital childhoods” was on show in Siegen in May and June 2023, presenting camera ethnographic research from the project “Early Childhood and Smartphone” to the general public. Specialists in the field of childhood studies and education were able to visit the exhibition in September 2023 during the 31st annual conference of the German Educational Research Association (GERA)’s subdivision Primary Education Research.
Participatory exhibits and video installations offered visitors different ways to immerse themselves in and explore, as co-researchers, themes around sensory practices in digital childhoods. Published at the same time, the book Reinventing Touch, which features the perspectives of researchers from different disciplines, served as the exhibition catalogue, while the exhibition transposed the themes raised in the book into live encounters in three-dimensional space. In both cases, diverse perspectives were brought into dialogue with one another.
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With Annika Gruhn and her children. Photo: Pip Hare.
