How can the act of removing shoes open us to a practice of nourishment?

How can the act of removing shoes open us to a practice of nourishment? I share this photo as a contribution to the #climatepedagogies2020 archives. It is a contribution intended to keep our memory in motion. Shoes help our feet move through the world, they protect us as we walk. But in the Colloquium, shoes helped us pause. What happens when to be nourished, we need to bare our feet, experience the awkwardness of being shoeless? What questions do we attune to as we remove our shoes when we enter a space that invites us to experience another kind of nourishment, one that asks us to share, to be more intimate with food, with people and with ideas? The organized line of shoes had an unintended meaning to undiscipline us, to disorient us. The trail of shoes created and marked space to allow the feeling of discomfort in order to accept an invitation to think otherwise about #foodpedagogies. How might vulnerability nourish openings as we enter a space that embodies acts of conviviality?

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