When Glass Taught Us New Names for Heat
摘要
This chapter investigates how non-human entities experience and respond to climate-induced thermal distress within university learning ecologies. It addresses the urgent question: how do non-human others on campus experience learning in the midst of climate catastrophe? Through an experimental education fiction titled imagine-this-seeing, the chapter presents a 24-h narrative of extreme heat from the dual perspectives of a Sydney Blue Gum tree and an autonomous cleaning robot at the University of Sydney Business School. Situated within postdigital ecopedagogies scholarship, the chapter employs speculative fiction and experimental poetry as methodological tools to de-centre human perspectives and foreground multispecies relationality. Drawing on contemporary approaches to multispecies thinking, the chapter uses techniques of sampling, cut-up, and remix to render non-human modes of communication and perception accessible to human readers. The experimental poem reveals how both biological and computational entities navigate cycles of rupture and repair under thermal stress, offering insights into alternative models of resilience and adaptation.