A radical holistic edge-fusion learning space with a collection of really useful collaborative tools for making social-ecological just change.
A radical holistic edge-fusion learning space with a collection of really useful collaborative tools for making social-ecological just change.
Workshops
HEdge Space
A Holistic Do-it-Together Tool kit.
Radical creative & holistic workshops to support people bring about just change, together
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Change is not made alone!
Co-Researcher KOB
HEdge Space is a holistic open access community 'learning-for-action' resource website. The resources were co-produced in the West of Ireland using a participatory action research approach which involved the collective contributions of over 55 people participating in a series of holistic radical praxis workshops. The workshops were underpinned by radical adult education & social practice art, practices concerned with transforming oppressive power structures at the root of injustice towards systems which support equality & flourishing. The group based experiential learning workshops were further infused with ideas from the arts and crafts movement, (social) permaculture, STEAM education, and the sustainable development goals (SDGs). This created a fusion of knowledges encompassing the political, creative, scientific, spiritual, economic and ecological through which to explore the issues of injustice effecting people lives and collective actions to bring about structural change. The co-produced resources arising from our research based learning aim to support others to participate in inclusive social movements & undertake strategic transformative collective political action on social-environmental justice issues. In addition to a learning resource, the website is also a cultural artefact & archive which tells this research story. It offers an alternative and more accessible form of publishing than that offered by traditional academic papers. Míle Buíochas to all involved. See 'our community' ​
​This Art-Based Participatory Action Research Project PhD was initiated by Giselle Harvey, an artist, educator and activist-researcher from the West of Ireland. The research was hosted by The Limerick School of Art & Design, TUS, & Funded by The Irish Research Council through the GOIPG scholarship award. Irish Research Council . The PhD ran from 2020 to 2024, but PAR never ends.
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Participatory Action Research (PAR) is collaborate research involving ‘collective self-reflective enquiry, the co-construction of knowledge, and the development of skills for speaking back to power and organizing for change with others’ (Kemmis and McTaggart 1998, p. 5)
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Our Story
This project started with one person trying to bring more creativity, nature connection, experiential and embodied approaches to their activism and education work. From this seed a temporary collective grew and co-produced the resources on this website. The researching community consisted of members of the public interested in social-environmental justice activism. They found the workshops 'a great way to get out of your head and into your body.' and 'to get away from 'talking heads' when doing activism work.
Language Hack - A Radical Glossary
Like it or hate it, language is power. And, similar to education and culture, it can be used as a tool of oppression or liberation. Here you will find some powerful radical lingo in bite sized descriptions to add to your political literacy toolbox. These terms and concepts have come from the intergenerational labour of social movements, and the people within these movement, to describe the dynamic nature of how power, oppression and agency work.
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Radical Holistic Edge Fusion Workshops
Here you will find links to 17 workshop reports. These reports offer workshop outlines which you can use or adapt to your own practice. The reports also illustrate practice outcomes and links to other resources relevant to each workshop.
The workshops are based on a holistic praxis. Praxis in the popular education tradition is a radical group learning process which involves collective reflection and dialogue to inform collective political actions for change orientated to emancipatory social transformation (Freire 1970).
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Who can use these Resources:
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The workshops and resources can be used by anyone involved in social-environmental justice movement organizing such as activists, facilitators, educators, artists, community workers and researchers. These people may be paid or unpaid workers within grassroots organizations and social movements, community and sustainable development contexts, NGO's, Public Participation Networks, local authorities, in research, education and the arts.​
