Abstract
Affective experiences are relational, circulating between bodies and matter, charging particular environments with lingering emotional resonance. Reflecting on an affective encounter I experienced with a feminist mentor in a space called the Judy Chicago office, which manifested in tears, my inquiry explores how pedagogical environments might come to embody a feminist ethics foregrounded in feltness and care. I conceptualize the co-creation of feminist pedagogical spaces as practices of feminist worlding. Additionally, I share insights emerging from participatory inquiry incorporating augmented reality (AR), Wo/Manhouse Stories: Womanhouse 1972 to Wo/Manhouse 2022. I discuss how the approaches set into motion through the participatory inquiry foster care-centered feminist worlding practices, which are necessary to disrupt the circulation of dominant patriarchal norms in neoliberal institutional spaces.
