For this episode I interview Aaron Senitt, an artist and Kindergarten teacher based here in Guelph Ontario. I interviewed Aaron in anticipation of the launch of his new book, an illustrated essay called "Kreepingarten", that is being published by Publication Studio Guelph (@psguelph).
This thoughtful and whimsical guide "gently argues for the use of Physarum Polycephalum (the “many headed slime”) as a model for human learning." Aaron has lovingly studied Slime Mould, and the ways in which its biomimicry has given his kindergarten students examples of the value of taking care of each other, leaving paths for each other, tending to nature and non-human life forms, and understanding how we as individuals exist independently, but also inseparably from the whole of our communities.
Kreepingarten can be found through the publisher, Publication Studio Guelph (https://www.publicationstudio.biz/studios/guelph/) and will be available locally at the Bookshelf.
Thank you Aaron for sharing this delightful book with us!
This interview was originally recorded on Mar 16th 2022. It was also my 200th interview for “Bridging the Social Distance”! When I realized a couple months back that I was getting close to the 200 interviews mark, I set out to achieve 200 interviews by the two-year anniversary, and the first interviews for this show took place on March 16th, 2020. So we made it! And there are still many to come. Thank you for your continued support!
