More than ten years ago I was on my way to become a chemical engineer, studying at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania. But then my grandmother died and her death radically changed my path in life: that’s when I finally started to live according to my own values. “What grandma left me” is my story
In 2020 a health crisis pushed me towards a restrictive diet. This experience challenged me to analyze my relationship with food and how it transformed across the years. “The year I learned how to cook” is a visual essay about the key events which took me from the conviction that I will never cook to
https://vimeo.com/799538620?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=194808413Rising to meet the challenges posed by climate change, ecological decline, and environmental injustice requires more than new technologies and policies. Changes to economies, political systems, and infrastructure must come in tandem with changes to values, attitudes, and practices. At Groundwork, we work to shift the foundations of the ways we understand ourselves and our
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxWLGVaci_I&ab_channel=iihschannelThe film ‘Kalike: Learnings from a research study’ tracks the ways in which a project to map two alternative educational institutions in Bengaluru unfolded. The film offers an overview of the questions that guided the research, methodology adopted and challenges in the process of field data collection, analysis and finalisation of research insights. Particularly, possibilities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0H29ngh0EQ&t=748s&ab_channel=GrandiosaAfrocaribeEn este documental se recogen experiencias colectivas de aprendizaje, viajes e intercambios musicales y culturales de un grupo de mujeres que desde hace más de 20 años vienen profundizado en las tradiciones orales afrocolombianas: la gaita y bailes cantados como el bullerengue y la tambora. Las integrantes – músicas, investigadoras y pedagogas – han aprendido
Video Storytelling by Doerte Weig and Roksana Niewadzisz Have you ever dated a tree or explored human-tree relationalities or shared stories about engaging with tree beings? Come and experience how dating a tree is grounded in ecosomatic practice and earthly discoveries. The work is part of the collective artistic research project Fabulation for Future and the digital exhibition How to Become a Posthuman, based on
People of Flour, Salt, and Water (2019) a film by Chto Delat (Olga Tsaplay Egorova, Nina Gasteva, Dmitry Vilensky, Nikolay Oleynikov) produced by Free Home University, curated by Alessandra Pomarico and Nikolay Oleynikov, with the support of Musagetes (Canada) and Regione Puglia. shoot in Castiglione d’Otranto (Andrano), Puglia, Italy, 2019 director: Olga Tsaplya Egorova
by Dilip Jain A human being is designed to automatically develop wisdom based on a combination of his personal experiences, exposures and education. However, in today’s modern world there is such heavy influence of capitalist/ consumerist narrative that often development of wisdom is not a personal journey but driven by someone else’s agenda. In this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTh7G8K_bZ0&ab_channel=ThousandShadesofIndiaEducation is nothing but transforming humans into more empathetic, enterprising, conscious and responsive beings. Education is the process that helps people discover themselves and realise their true potential in the complete sense of being human. It is a process that helps a person find meaning and purpose in being useful to the society, equipped with
“Attention-Eclipse” (2023) by Ana Pura, Isadora Martins and Tarik Fraig The authentic and pure values — truth, beauty and goodness — in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Three learning activists gave themselves the opportunity
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