Classroom Multi-sensory Practices for Collaborative Liveable Worlds
An Inspirational Reader Fostering Sustainable Understanding and Participatory Practices
Fieldwork Companion: Practical and adaptable for classroom and field use
Edited by Eveline Wandl-Vogt
This inspiring reader bridges the worlds of education, citizen science, and participatory art to foster regenerative futures through collaborative learning. Created as part of the award-winning Our Planetary Garden initiative (Austrian Citizen Science Award 2022), it presents a collection of multisensory, hands-on practices that reconnect learners with biodiversity, soundscapes, and each other.
Combining sound ecology, environmental storytelling, mapping, speculative design, and art-based fieldwork, this book offers a versatile toolkit for inclusive and sustainable education. Each chapter provides flexible lesson plans, prompts, and activities designed for classrooms, museums, citizen science labs, and community-based learning settings.
Rooted in Eveline Wandl-Vogt's internationally recognized work at Harvard University, Ars Electronica, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the book blends interdisciplinary research with real-world application. Whether guiding a soundwalk, exploring climate fiction, or building a classroom ecosystem, educators and changemakers will find tools to spark imagination, deepen learning, and support future-oriented thinking.
What You'll Learn:
- How to integrate multisensory and creative methods into environmental and cultural education
- How to apply citizen science in participatory ways that honor biocultural diversity
- How to develop future skills through sound-based learning, visual arts, mapping, and field observation
- How to co-create regenerative, just, and inclusive learning environments
Ideal For:
- Teachers and STEAM educators
- Museum and gallery educators
- Citizen science practitioners
- Community organizers and cultural curators
- Anyone exploring the intersection of art, science, and sustainability
Available editions:
- eBook - Exploration Edition: Portable and interactive digital format
- Softcover - Fieldwork Companion: Practical and adaptable for classroom and field use
- Hardcover - Collector's Edition: Premium format for libraries, institutions, and display, includes bonus eBook access
About the Editor:
Eveline Wandl-Vogt is a globally recognized artist-scientist, art-driven innovator, and citizen science leader. She is the foundress of Ars Electronica Research Institute
knowledge for humanity and holds fellowships and research roles with
Harvard,
Ars Electronica, the Austrian Federal Railway Open Innovation Factory and the
Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her work bridges open social innovation, regenerative pedagogy, and participatory futures, empowering communities to co-create knowledge for inclusive, regenerative liveable worlds.
Wandl-Vogt, Eveline: - "Eveline Wandl-Vogt is a globally recognized artist-scientist, art-driven innovator, and leading figure in the citizen science movement. Holding key affiliations with institutions such as Harvard University, Ars Electronica, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), she has extensive experience in creative participatory approaches, opensocial innovation, and multisensory learning environments, Eveline initiates and leads participatory, transdisciplinary projects that foster biocultural diversity, regenerative futures, and justice-oriented transformation. She is also the foundress of Ars Electronica Reserach Institute knowledge for humanity institute, strategic principal and ecosystem orchestra of URBANITARIUM - Future Living as a Service, and co-creator of high-impact educational toolkits that are used internationally."
