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.
Praxis tools to support people bring about just change, together
Workshops
Outreach Workshop 2
Date: November 2021
Purpose: Outreach
Location: Gort Resource Centre
Participants: 1
Duration: 2 Hours
Praxis Workshop Structure:
The outreach workshop was organized into seven short activities:
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Participants meet and greet using post-its.
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Individual reflection through creative play using mixed media art materials & natural materials (e.g leaves and sticks)
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People share back insights from activity. to the group
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Facilitator offers the group an information input on AR-PAR,
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The group engages in a collaborative co-researching activity based on the broad question
'How do we make social-ecological change together? -
The group reflects on this activity and what thoughts or feelings it generated for them.
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Individual workshop evaluation and share back. Benefits (usefulness), challenge's of the process. Next steps.
This was a two hour workshop but could be expanded into a 2 day workshop depending on the context.
Introduction
This was a unique outreach workshop, having only one participant due to a number of last minute cancellations. None the less It was an opportunity for the person to explore the workshop practice and research, reflect on their own reasons for coming to the workshop, their social and environmental concerns, their activism and consider if they wished to become more involved in the project.
Participant motivations for coming to the workshop
..I want to make more art in a collaborative way
and process and act on environmental destruction
I just feel a bit helpless and like, oh my God, capitalism is destroying the planet
Individual Play Activity
As the person is working alone I leave space for them to explore through the materials without setting a time and instead wait for them to feel finished. I take this time to play with materials too so the space feels more collaborative. In other outreach sessions i did not particpate in activites.
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Play Outcomes
After the activity EC spoke about thier sense of overwhelm due to the ecological collapse. The participant mentions in the session a lack of capacity for other forms of activism such as strategies, social media campaigns. They are clear about their political positions
Benefits and usefulness, challenges, considerations suggestions
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Key Generative themes that were produced through this workshop
Artistic and collaborative ways to process and act on environmental destruction,
Campaign work is too heady
Nature, Landscape, Emotion,
Public, Performance
Overwhelmed by Ecological collapse. Feels helpless, capitalism is destroying the planet.
Anti-Racist and Feminist position
Solidarity
Participant engagement through the project.
This participant became a co-researcher. They attended two core workshops and missed two. They were involved in designing a creative collective action which occurred over two workshop events at Climate Camp 2022 and a zine making workshop. Below is a diagram of their praxis journey
