ABSTRACT
This chapter explores that light, to pay attention to the way it dances—the images, boundaries, and realities it creates as “stuff” gets pushed through the grate. Standing at the top of Nose Hill Park, one can see its physical boundaries, where dirt and grass meet human-made concrete streets. With each new boundary comes a new set of ethical considerations and new potentials. Changing the flow and boundaries of water makes new things possible, crafting new possibilities for dozens of species, including fish, birds, and other mammals while also filtering water naturally. Space in schools is clearly defined by physical boundaries. Fences around buildings and land, locks on doors, and entryways operated through intercom systems all serve as boundaries to who and what can come inside and who and what can leave. Physical boundaries create habituated understandings and responses—or embodied literacies—connected to people, places, and things.
