Embodied pedagogy for climate: Walking, listening, relating
Join us for a deep dive into innovative methods and ideas for education and imagining beyond climate change.
Date and time
Wed, Sep 25, 2024 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM MST
Location
Online
About this event
Event lasts 3 hours
There are no solutions to the polycrisis of the 21st century that will not be creative and innovative. Only when young people can use their creativity will they be able to frame the issues, and therefore the potential solutions differently – beyond tweaking business-as-usual, school-as-usual, government-as-usual. Creativity is what is needed in order for young people to imagine how to work, live and play in totally different ways. Creativity is what is needed in order for youth to collaboratively determine what they value beyond profit and power – to create individual, social and ecosystem health and wellbeing.
Join us on September 25th 12-3 AST (calculate your local time), to hear from research-creation experts about how to utilize creative methods to support young people to explore the social and cultural dimensions of adapting to climate change, as well as scientific and technical realities of a heating planet. In this participatory workshop, you will have opportunities to experiment and engage with the speakers.
Speakers
Patrick Mahon is an artist, a writer/curator, and a Professor of Visual Arts at Western University, in London, ON, Canada. Currently, he is also the Director of the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts & Humanities at Western. Patrick will present on research creation and the co-creation of FluxKits with youth - boxes containing inexpensive visual work, essays, games, and other hands-on, creative modes of learning.
Scott Smallwood is a sound artist, composer, and sound performer who creates works inspired by discovered textures and forms, through a practice of listening, field recording, and sonic improvisation. He is a Professor and Director of the Sound Studies Institute in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta.
Rachel Epp Buller is a Professor of Visual Arts and Design and Director of the Regier Art Gallery at Bethel College. She will share how walking is a mode of listening - and a mode of climate action.
This event is hosted by researchers Drs. Sheena Wilson and Lynette Shultz, University of Alberta, and Dr. Carrie Karsgaard, Cape Breton University. The event was made possible with funding from SSHRC.