Co-creating Study of Experience in Dialogue

This essay reflects on the origins of an edited book that brought seventeen authors together to define experience. We co-create the experience in the form of a dialogue between us, the book’s two editors, and argue for the sake of words in the experience. We explore what it was like to start and lead a process that supported “making science” as a creative process, adding to what we learnt and keep learning, about the editing experience from this new dialogic experience. The premise of our dialogue is that, conceptually speaking, experience is the whole process of sensing, perceiving, grasping, and interpreting – it is our way of becoming aware of the environment. What follows is our conversation that elaborates on the definitional premise with our book as the example.