ecoversities: learners and communities reclaiming diverse knowledges, relationships and imaginations to design new approaches to higher education.
re-connecting
re-imagining
re-generating
What might the university look like if it were at the service of our diverse ecologies, cultures, economies, spiritualities and Life within our planetary home?
our vision
The Ecoversities Alliance is committed to radically re-imagining higher education to cultivate human and ecological flourishing. Ecoversities seek to transform the unsustainable and unjust economic, political and social systems/mindsets that dominate the planet.
our hope
Supporting learners and communities around the world to reclaim their own processes of un/learning, knowledge co-creation and sharing, and community building.
Inspiring, nourishing, connecting and giving visibility to diverse eco-versities initiatives around the world.
Building solidarities, collective inquiries, inter-cultural dialogue and new experiments in higher education.
Nurturing an ecology of knowledges, radical pedagogies and learning commons which expands human consciousness and cultural and ecological regeneration.
our actions
The Ecoversities Alliance is a trans-local community of over 200 transformative learning spaces from around the world who have been meeting and working together since 2015 through international and regional gatherings, learning exchanges, mutual aid campaigns, workshops, collaborative projects, learning journeys, film festivals and publications.
our values and orientations:
Emergence
An invitation to the unknown, allowing diverse ways of being, knowing, doing, relating to emerge.
Inquiry in Solidarity
An invitation to be authentic and critically engaged with co-learners, whilst invoking self-reflection, kindness, and compassion to support others in their own inquiries and discoveries.
Experiential Learning
Learning with our senses, stories, spirits, hearts, hands, heads and homes in order to find ways we are interconnected, and entangled in each other’s struggles and dreams.
Emplacement
An invitation to reconnect with and learn from the land, the place and the non-human. To engage in and promote deep localization.
De-colonising
An invitation to address, explore and unlearn the dimensions of oppression, power, and privilege that are part of our own lives, relations, tools, structures, histories and beliefs.
Inter(trans)cultural Dialogue
An invitation to learn in-between cultures, epistemologies, cosmologies, and to learning ways we might not recognize or have experienced before. To learn from/ within/ beyond diversity.
our purpose
Re-imagining the university and higher education to cultivate human and ecological flourishing.
Connecting people and communities who are reclaiming their local knowledge systems and imaginations to restore and re-envision learning processes that are meaningful and relevant to the call of our times.
Nourishing stories and practices that re-connect and regenerate ecological and socio-cultural systems, and re-build a diverse ecology of knowledges.
ecoversities
Here you will find an ecosystem of communities and organizations that are re-imagining the idea of the university and the purpose of higher education.
News & Events
Re-imagining Education Conference 4.0 – October 24 – 27, 2024! Let’s bring our imaginations together!
NewsEducation is what shapes our collective hearts and minds. As the cracks in the systems widen, we must come together to reimagine what we learn, how we learn it, how to compost it, and who we regard as our teachers. Join us for an...
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becoming Monster: A Convening at the End of the Human | October 30th – November 3rd 2024
NewsBecoming Monster will introduce us to strange characters and other-than-human creatures, co-created in praxis through art-making, creative process, intuitive and body-based explorations, ritual, ceremony and celebration. The online,...
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Afrikan Ecoversities Regional Gathering 2024: NIGERIA November 12th to 17th
News, Regional Gathering, Upcoming GatheringWe invite you to come together to commune, share gifts and experiences and feast on how we are creating our own spaces of learning, unlearning and relearning across Afrika during our second Ecoversities regional gathering. We will be...
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