In this pedagogical experiment on the topic of human exceptionalism, we present draft cartographies related to this topic and audio recordings of members of the collective describing or responding to the image. Frame 1 Audio 1A: Vanessa Andreotti Frame 2 Audio 2A: Vanessa Andreotti Frame 3 Audio 3A: Vanessa Andreotti Frame 4 Audio 4A: Vanessa …
Systemic violence is complex and multi-layered. One thing that cuts across layers is the disproportionate amount of labour that Indigenous, Black and other racialized people bear when they are expected to teach other people about systemic colonial and racial violence. The poem below lists the reason why it is emotionally and physically costly for Indigenous, …
A story written by Timo Holthoff in response to experiences in the Gorca in Earth’s Care Bridge47 residency in 2019. THE DARK FOREST One day I went into a dark forest - a place I don’t know - what I usually try to avoid. But I was burning from the sun and so it seemed …
This booklet was developed with a specific audience in mind: educators working with global citizenship education in Europe. It presents an overview of the work of the collective and outlines two pedagogical experiments. The first pedagogical experiment, “Bare Basics” is a program for self or group study consisting of a collection of resources organized around …
house mycelium mini-zine pdf (v. 3.1 updated 29.06.2018) house mycelium text pdf (updated 02.07.2018) Video on how to fold the mini-zine: From the house that modernity built to healthy mycelium This mini-zine is a pedagogical experiment that invites conversations about our collective existence in a planet facing unprecedented crises. These conversations change the zine as well, therefore there …
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This text is an adapted transcript of a keynote presented at the Indigenous Scholars Conference: Indigenous Epistemologies: Re-Visioning Reconciliation on 26 March 2015, at the University of Alberta. It has been accepted for publication in the Canadian Journal of Native Studies. I am from a family with Indigenous Latin American and German ancestry. I have been …
As I wondered about the best way to write this text, two related events caught my attention. First, I received a call for publications with the title “After De-colonizing…What?” issued after an extremely productive (albeit difficult) 2015 gathering in Portugal on the theme of ‘Eco-versities’. In the same week, in a different context, I was …
“The bus” is a central figure in a methodology for collective inquiry that emerged as a response to the need for difficult, honest and sober conversations where the integrity of relationships are prioritized above the emotional charge of the content being discussed. The methodology is being tested by our research group as a container for …
In this historical time, we have learned to think about education in association with the transmission or production of knowledge: what is known and what is knowable. This tendency has been normalized through the Western Enlightenment, which is centered on the idea that being is about knowing (I think therefore I am) and that knowing …
