Abstract
"In Tensile // In Between" operates as both artistic artefact and theoretical critique, demonstrating how creative practice can embody and extend academic discourse. This creative-critical work examines shifting perceptions of course delivery within creative tertiary education, arguing that project-based learning enables the seamless embedding of socio-cultural discourse and theories within practical making processes.
The poem interrogates how educational environments can cultivate critical thinking through what I term "tensile pedagogy"—an approach that maintains productive charge between opposing forces rather than seeking synthesis or resolution. This concept builds upon King's (2017) work on pedagogy as tension, which argues that "tension and incompleteness are part of education, especially within the practice of pedagogy" and radical relationality brings necessary uncertainty to educational encounters.
Recommended Citation
Di Niro, Corinna
(2025)
"In Tensile // In Between,"
Imaginings: creative practice and inquiry: Vol. 1:
Iss.
1, Article 2.
Available at:
https://creo.sae.edu.au/imaginings/vol1/iss1/2