Labyrinth learning : a 360-degree community service digital ecology

Abstract

Labyrinth Learning – A 360 Degree Community Service Digital Ecology is a Master’s Portfolio organized around the Lakehead Labyrinth Project at Lakehead University’s campus between 2017-2022. With text, images, video, audio and 360-degree imagery centered around the outdoor Wellness Path Labyrinth built on Lakehead’s Thunder Bay campus this 360-degree digital ecology will eventually land as a QR code on a forthcoming interpretative plaque. The text layer of Labyrinth Learning contains a literature synthesis, exploring the history of Labyrinths and how human cultures have learned with them throughout the ages. The 360-degree base images of the Labyrinth shares the story of the Lakehead Wellness Path Labyrinth outside the Bora Laskin Faculty of Education through interactive educational portals. And to round out the Portfolio, at the core of the 360-degree Digital Ecology, podcast links to the 12-episode pilot of CILU Radio’s Labyrinth Learning program are arranged like the hour markers of a clock around the centre of the Labyrinth. Labyrinth Learning is a campus and community radio show I created and hosted which aired every Wednesday and Saturday at 1 pm through the fall of 2022 on 102.7fm. Professors across 11 different disciplines, from Education to English, Indigenous Learning and Anthropology, Psychology to Philosophy, Social Work and Social Justice, Natural Resource Management to History and Health Sciences speak on this show about their learning journeys through the metaphor of the Labyrinth in these hour-long open-form educational conversations. The intent is for both the 360-degree Labyrinth Learning Digital Ecology portal and the CILU radio show to continue beyond the scope of this Master’s portfolio.