Abstract Remake activities reuse and recycle waste materials, working them into something useful. The experiential activity seems to be prevalent, yet limited literature covers creative ways of thinking about pedagogical approaches. This paper examines some of the emerging waste education literature before exploring further possibilities for remake activities, using the example of paddle making as a pedagogical practice in outdoor, environmental and sustainability education. I perform a new materialist praxis for paddle making, enacting a diffractive investigation into a piece of timber as a way of framing paddle making activities. I present the investigation as a narrative that considers the life of the timber and the broader ecological history of the material. This charts ethical and environmental problems relating to particular forests whilst posing different ways of conceptualising timber. Through this, I offer an example of the pedagogical diffractions that can be made during remake activities. In summary, the paper attends to materiality in divergent ways, through the use of new materialist ideas, to open up educational possibilities.

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通过制作思考：垃圾桨、遥远的森林和教学的可能性

Abstract Remake 活动重复使用和回收废料，将它们加工成有用的东西。体验活动似乎很普遍，但有限的文献涵盖了对教学方法的创造性思考方式。本文在探索改造活动的进一步可能性之前，先检查了一些新兴的废物教育文献，以桨叶制作为例，作为户外、环境和可持续性教育的教学实践。我对桨叶制作进行了一种新的唯物主义实践，对一块木材进行了衍射研究，以此作为框架桨叶制作活动的一种方式。我将调查呈现为一种叙事，它考虑了木材的寿命和材料的更广泛的生态历史。该图表描绘了与特定森林相关的伦理和环境问题，同时提出了不同的木材概念化方式。通过这个，我提供了一个可以在翻拍活动中进行的教学衍射的例子。总之，本文以不同的方式关注物质性，通过使用新的唯物主义思想，开辟教育的可能性。