Cootie Catchers and Fortune Tellers

Connecting Deleuze’s fold with Barad’s spacetimemattering, we explore how (un)folding origami cootie catchers/fortune tellers can infuse playfulness to enact and extend qualitative data analysis, (re)presentation, and audience engagement in poetic inquiry. -Presenting two distinctive dissertation projects, we demonstrate how origami arts fostered play and becoming-together with(in) these qualitative inquiries. Yixuan Wang presents U.S. English teachers’ intersectional experiences in China through an origami poem, and Shannon Perry shares how collaborative inquiry into affect and creative practice led to origami fortune tellers as participatory, performative presentations of research insights.