I recommend to also read the set of critical reflections we embedded in the website among the piggy content, which unpacks the reasons, design choices, research ethos and theory that underlies this website. The first entry is here: rootling.place/articles/rootling-as-research

Throw yourself into the rootling place and explore. It's meant to be initially disorientating, but take that as a prompt for curiosity and to dig further. There is also an About page for more practical details: rootling.place/about

2) As researchers we identified with the porcine activity of rootling. Working with designers we created a website that performs rootling as a method of learning: one that encourages users to re-evaluate the place of playfulness, plotlessness, & heterogenous sources when doing research.

2 reasons we/the sounder created this website.

1) We love pigs & felt the need to portray pigs in their bewildering plurality: including but especially beyond the positions of capitalism, farming, hunting, & veterinary sciences that dominated the ERC project we worked on (wildboar.cz)

from an article; not a reviewer!

Instead of live rabbits that were "too expensive and time consuming" there are now fluffy toys in a glass box that emits heat and smell that mimics a rabbit

Which also prompted me to listen for the first time to this podcast which I recorded 5 months ago now, speaking about my book.

Was surprised I didn't sound like the disastrous mess I imagined myself to be (despite getting a tiny bit lost half way through)

open.spotify.com/episode/4DpR...