Where on earth?
52.236790976309464 N, 6.857035978051233 E
(The DesignLab at University of Twente)
When in time?
9.30-17.30h on 29 February 2024 (roughly 4,600 million years after earth’s formation)
Who is ‘us’
We are a small, interdisciplinary group of scholars, educators, climate justice activists, artists and narrative change practitioners who believe human culture has to embrace its place as a part of nature. We are affiliated with the UT Storylab and the UT Designlab and supported by a collaboration grant from the BMS faculty of the University of Twente.
Why
We believe that current crises (ecological loss, geo-political violence, mass migration, housing shortages) are also crises of meaning and imagination. We need practices for creating hopeful, empowering, embodied stories that provide direction and fuel to shape regenerative futures: stories of how all life on our beautiful planet can flourish. Stories that counter the existing exploitative and extractionist ones.
We want to contribute to narrative learning for individuals in professional learning communities working on regenerative futures. How does narrative learning take place? Can we co-create narrative knowledge, skills and attitudes and share them amongst each other? How can we empower those already working with storytelling for sustainability?
To allow for reflection and dialogue we need some common understanding of and affinity with the proposed approach of narrative learning for regenerative futures. Therefore, we will provide participants with a basic framework to be further developed and critiqued: “does this perspective/framework allow for more direction and energy in your specific projects?”
We wish to create this day together with artists, educators, academics, and others working on sustainability, catalyzing the learning process. We do this by facilitating the exchange of knowledge and experience.
Inspiration
Video 1 is a microlecture about the 3 dimensions of our proposed narrative learning approach (experiential, participatory and reflective-critical), video 2 is the result of an artistic investigation into how to talk/listen the voice of nature:
For more information contact Anneke Sools a.m.sools@utwente.nl