A MEDITATION IN BLACKNESS Poem by Bayo Akomolafe I am a black man.I was planted in deep, loamy, black soil by my black father.Cradled, cultured and coaxed out like a tuber of yam by my black mother.Though I came from one womb, I am birthed by many mothers – some of skin like bark and timber,
Bayo Akomolafe A Story From where I come, somewhere in the midwestern region of Nigeria in West Africa, where Yoruba people have made their home for generations, there is an instructive story about Ìjàpá, the tortoise, who is also a trickster in Yoruba folktales – one that sheds some light on a different ontology of
A conversation with Silvia Federici, Gustavo Esteva and Munir Fasheh curated by Alessandra Pomarico and Udi Mandel Butler. May 31st at 12,00 pm (midday) EST time. 2 hours and some minutes Dear Ecoversities friends (Versión en español abajo) We hope you are well and safe, and that the many threads of conversations are supporting you in
The Publication and Film Initiative of the Ecoverisities Alliance aims to support an emergence of diverse voices, a multiplicity of perspectives and a wider experiential reflections from a variety of contexts and knowledge systems, through commissioning and disseminating new works related to the role of higher education and how we imagine and practice it in
As the impact of the Covid-19 crisis spreads from the biological, to the social and the economic, many universities are confronting the realities of living in a world characterized by complexity. What are the implications for universities? How do we need to change our approach to education? 1.My early academic life was a slow moving
(Versión en español abajo) Hope that you, your family and friends are safe and feeling ok during these challenging times. At Ecoversities we continue to imagine how to keep the field open so that as an alliance we can continue to create more ideas, games, products, experiments, etc., for our lives and for alternatives for
This booklet was prepared by Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Sharon Stein, Rene Suša, Tereza Čajkova, Dani d’Emilia, Elwood Jimmy, Bill Calhoun, Sarah Amsler, Camilla Cardoso, Dino Siwek and Kyra Fay in April 2019. Here a quote about this study program: “These educational tools were created to offer a rough overview of the hidden costs of
By: Ku Kahakalau Waiʻanae Mountain Range from Kahumana The 2nd Pacific Region Ecoversities Gathering was held from July 19 through the 21, 2019 at Kahumana, an organic farm on the Waiʻanae Coast of the island of Oʻahu. This area is known for its high concentration of Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders. Pacific Region Gathering
https://youtu.be/1DZnSc9L66gIntroduction Corazón, Corzón, Corazón, Mi Corazón Background 30 Projects, Leaders, Weavers, and Seeds met in the Ecovillage of Chambalabamba with the purpose of reinvidicaiting our knowledges and practices of learning and healing. We re-imagined pedagogical processes which are both significant and relevant to the co-construction and design of a new earth. The call of our
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