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 holistic workshops to support people bring about just change, together
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Change is not made alone!
Co-Researcher KOB
Each small action reflects with everyone’s small actions and become something tangible
Co-researcher SP
HEdge Space is a holistic radical adult and community education research project. Radical adult education supports communities to explore their experience of injustice, identify oppressive power at the root of injustice, and discover their own power to act together to bring about political and economic systems change. The research project, originating in The Burren, Co. Clare, Ireland involved 14 public co-researchers, with another 40 people participating in various public workshop events. This website serves an open-source public community learning resource. It shares the 'really useful tools' that were co-produced though our experiential holistic praxis workshops. Mile Buiochas to all involved. See 'our community' to learn more about the co-researching community.
The holistic praxis workshops use an edge-fusion of practices that include, local small-scale making workshops based on; community, radical popular education; the arts and crafts movement, community arts, arts & ecology, interventionist art; permaculture, STEAM education, and the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The workshops can be used by individuals, groups, activists, artists, community workers, researchers and others involved in social-environmental justice movement organizing. For example, within grassroots organization, community and sustainable development, civil society groups, NGO's, Public Participation Networks, local authorities, in non-formal and formal education, and social practice art contexts.
This Art-Based Participatory Action Research Project (AB-PAR) PhD was initiated by Giselle Harvey, an activist-researcher. It 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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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 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 been generated through the intergenerational work 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 workshops. Each page has a workshop structure which you can draw on and adapt for your own practice. Each page also has a workshop outcome report so that you can see how each workshop unfolded in this instance, and, in some cases, informed the next workshop. The workshops are based on the idea of creative eco-embodied small-scale making as a way to do praxis. Praxis is a radical peer to peer learning process which involves collective reflection and dialogue to inform pollical actions for change. These workshops aim to generate critical thinking and actions to bring about alternatives to systems that generate social and environmental injustice. They are a radical response to large scale production and consumption practices, and the systems of power driving them, evidenced as the root cause of social inequality and environmental destruction. It is a group process practice orientated to emancipatory social transformation.
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