Enabling Plural Ways of Knowing

Anthropological attempts at teaching and researching offer ideas which could be useful for International Cultural Relations in bringing people closer to each other in order to create spaces of joint learning and growing. In this article, two projects which offer examples of collaborative learning across difference (national, social, cultural, class, etc.) are introduced. These examples highlight why such work is needed. The first project – a teaching project – introduces a learning approach which connects body and mind through tools and thus engenders spaces for joint thinking, reflecting and even silence. The second project – a research project – provides insights into a workshop explicitly aimed at creating equitable space for its participants in terms not only of their knowledge but also of their ways of knowing.