A radical holistic edge-fusion learning space with a collection of really useful collaborative tools for making social-ecological just change.
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Change is not made alone
Co-Researcher KOB
HEdgeSpace.net is an open access creative community education resource platform for people working collectively for social environmental change. It contains a toolkit based on a collection of holistic praxis workshops that combine radical art-based adult & community education with deep education for sustainability and social practice art peppered with influences from the arts and crafts movement, (social) permaculture and STEAM education.​​ The toolkit was produced through a creative transdisciplinary participatory action research project which took place in the West of Ireland from 2020-2024. This involved critical and creative collaborations for action with public co-researching activists and public participants who co-produced and participated in a series of creative holistic praxis workshops.​​ The toolkit aims to support inclusive creative approach's to public participation in activism and strategic interdisciplinary collaborations.
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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
Language is power, and similarly 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 have been produced through the intergenerational labour of people acting within social movements throughout history. They describe ways in which vested interests use power as a tool of oppression and ways that power can be reclaimed by people to develop collective agency to fight for justice and equality.
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Holistic Praxis 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 process. Praxis, in the popular education tradition, is a group learning process which involves collective reflection and dialogue on lived experience of social struggle to inform collective political actions for change orientated to emancipatory social transformation (Freire 1970).
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Acknowledgements
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Massive thanks to the people who generously contributed their time, knowledge and labour as co-researchers of this project. Whether you came for five workshops or one, your collective lived experience of struggle, your activist insights, and your ongoing curiosity about how to bring about just change contributed to a creative holistic learning-for-action resource which can benefit the many.
Katie Burke, Eve Campbell, Cynthia Cox, Kate Daly, Clair Fitzgerald, Christina Iancu, Nick Jones, Kat Gribkoff, Joe Nix, Claire Murray, Kate O’ Brien, Su Powel, Anna Swisher, Fiona Mae White,and guest co-researcher Ciana Lucy Spel.
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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 Research Ireland/The Irish Research Council through the GOIPG scholarship award. This PhD ran from 2020 to 2024, but PAR never ends.
Thanks to the Irish Research Council /Research Ireland for funding it.
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