Part II. Relational, Spatial, and Sociomaterial Conditions of Agency

Abstract

This chapter explores postdigital relationality as the condition of contemporary life where digital and analog, human and nonhuman, subject and infrastructure are entangled in ongoing processes of mutual becoming. The chapter is an invitation to explore paradigms rooted in relationality, entanglement, emergence, and agency—offering “critical becoming” as a mode of ethically navigating complexity. Rooted in decolonial frameworks and Design Thinking and Systems Thinking, the chapter critiques the inadequacy of inherited educational models for the digital turn, and argues for new methods and approaches grounded in praxis, critical making, embodiment, agency, and experiential learning. It invites readers to imagine pedagogies attuned to co-responsibility, algorithmic literacy, and ethical co-presence—capacities urgently needed in the postdigital condition. Rather than dwelling in critique, this chapter orients toward futures otherwise: futures where learners act within, through, and against systems to co-create meaning. Hope, motivation, and joy are reclaimed as essential affective conditions for learning, becoming, and world-making in entangled, unpredictable times.