HEdge Space
Creative Collaborations for Change
A Do-it-Together Toolkit.
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Change is not made alone
Co-Researcher KOB
HEdgeSpace.net is an open access educational resource which hosts a toolkit of participatory workshop practices which aim to support inclusive public participation in collaborations for social-environmental change. The research combined adult education, community arts, and education for sustainability with elements from the arts & crafts movement, (social) permaculture, and STEAM education to create a holistic praxis workshop practice.
This praxis toolkit was co-generated through a community-based participatory action research project called Hedge Space which was part of a PhD which took place in the West of Ireland from 2020-2025. Within the Hedge space project public co-researchers participated in, and co-informed, a series of holistic participatory workshops which were underpinned by a core praxis process. These educational resources can be used within diverse participatory contexts including grassroots social movement spaces, community & sustainable development organisations, community arts, adult education, and participatory research.
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Language Hack - A Radical Glossary
Language, education and culture are tools of power which can be used to oppress or liberate. One way to claim power for social justice action is to gain familiarty and understanding of the language that has been produced by social movments intergentaionally. This language was developed not only to describe the ways in which oppressive power structures work but also to communicate how people can claim power and agency to work collectivly for justice and equality. To build political literacy, this page contain a radical glossary of powerful language with short introductory descriptions.
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Holistic Praxis Workshops
The workshop section contains research workshop reports, which include workshop outlines as well as illustrating our praxis process and outcomes , and links to other resources relevant to each workshop. Praxis, in the popular education tradition, is a group based learning-for-action process involving collective reflection and dialogue on issues of injustice to inform collective social actions for just change (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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