What is Emergent Knowing?

How do we know what we cannot yet imagine? Emergent Knowing is the practice and process of coming to know in the midst of the new coming into being—a knowing that is not about possessing facts or concepts, but about the creative participating in the unfolding of novelty itself. It is a form of knowing that arises not from the mind’s representations, but from embodied, embedded, and extended engagement – action with and of the world, where meaning, sense, understandin, and identity co-emerge with the creative process itself.

Emergent Knowing is the process by which understanding arises through active participation in emergent, creative processes. Rather than drawing on pre-existing knowledge or abstract ideation, Emergent Knowing is enacted through experimental engagement, attunement, and sense-making within a dynamic and unpredictable environment. It is a distributed, relational, and more-than-human phenomenon—a knowing that is felt, enacted, and stabilized as novel worlds and possibilities take shape.

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See also: Enaction, Know-How, Emergence, Practice