Dino Siwek and Mar Mordente continue a conversation that began in March 2024 with the Senti-Pensar Gaza gathering in São Paulo, Brasil. This marked the start of an artistic-pedagogical inquiry into the culture of genocide. With photographs by Kya Roy Fay.
The vital themes that land-based learning communities urgently need to address are: checking soil erosion and degradation; enhancing vegetation, protecting biodiversity, enhancing fertility and absorption/storage of rain; becoming self-reliant in growing food and building homes; establishing diverse ecologically sustainable and satisfying livelihoods; and evolving methods for convivial self-governance and effective resolution of interpersonal conflicts. Vanvadi — now a Forestversity — has been experimenting with these issues for three decades.
Beyond the evident gender gap — experienced uniquely in each region — and the violence perpetuated by systems designed and created by and for capitalism and patriarchy worldwide, what does it truly mean to be a man in the 21st century?
This deck of cards can serve as an oracle, as ideas/questions that may trigger group reflections as well. Each card contains the energy of an essence from the Yukon territory, associated with it there is a paragraph and a question arising from the essence of the flower, element, mushroom… In this way, we will be able to recognize and relate to them, as well as use their particular characteristics to open veins of knowledge, generate and nourish curiosity, and understand ourselves better. It is the creation of an imaginary of healing that, through experience, allows for the delivery of messages that lead to profound reflection and contact with the essences.
“There is a student,
In the absence of childhood
Waiting for the final lesson
Of war.”
A Aliança de Ecoversidades é uma comunidade de praticantes de aprendizagem de todo o mundo, empenhades em re-imaginar a educação superior e a cultivar prosperidade humana e ecológica em resposta aos desafios críticos dos nossos tempos.
Copyleft 2018 Ecoversities
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