About Rootling
Rootling [verb]
Pigs rootle to eat, play, and know. As omnivorous animals, they use their snouts to disturb the soil, uncover foods and understand their environment and other pigs. Rootling is curiosity and exploration. This website is a playground for rootlers. Consume playfully, haphazardly, disruptively, and from a variety of sources, and learn about pigs in their many guises, capacities, and relations with humans.
A Practical Guide to Rootling.place
Drag your mouse or finger on a touchscreen to move across the landscape. If using a touchscreen, try using two fingers, like running, to move faster! A wild pig accompanies your exploration. Forms, colours, and ideas shimmer beneath the surface. By repeatedly clicking you can unearth and discover the content beneath. The more you rootle, the more the landscape becomes diverse and vibrant.
keep clicking to unblur the tiles and open a post
To navigate and learn in this landscape you don’t need linearity nor method. Have fun! Be curious, unsystematic, open to ambiguity and accidents. The posts are intellectual nourishing, sometimes with contradictory flavours, occasionally silly, and often delivering suprising insights about pigs.
Many entries are short. Digest them quickly and move on by following their link or re-entering the rootling.place. Some posts are longer and in-depth and require more time to mull over, chew, and process.
Keeping your nose and perspective close to the ground makes you attentive to detail. As a rootler, you can adjust your perspective by zooming in or out. If you have acquired a taste for a certain subject, follow its scent across the landscape by selecting a tag. The cards on the left-hand column help you track what you have uncovered already. You can also use them as another mode of rummaging through entries. A percentage bar below tracks your progress.
About Us
This website was conceived collectively by Kieran O'Mahony, Laura Kuen, Marianna Szczygielska, Paul G. Keil, sounder members of the ERC BOAR Project. Rootling.place was designed in collaboration with WWW Stuudio. If there are any questions or you would like to contact us, please click on our names for links to our profiles and emails.
