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
ABOUT
The Research Journey Summary
'We are more powerful than we think.
If we can come together more, we can affect more positive change in our world, both inner and outer'
Co-researcher CF
Giselle Harvey: Illustration of partial research praxis journey, 2024
Outreach
It started with
a public call for co-researchers
Co-researching
Workshops
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Outreach workshops
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Visions and Intentions for change
(Goin back to go forward) -
Weaving Intentions & Knowledges together
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Exploring themes & mapping concrete action
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Action planning​​​​
Public
Workshops
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​​Community Lino printing @ Climate Camp
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​​Climate Camp 2022 Zine Making weekend
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Spin Card N Chat & Card and Chat @ Rekindle Festival by Common Knowledge​
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Samhain: Ritual Action for Change​​
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Spinning intentions for change.​
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​​[EM] Powergeneration
Giselle Harvey: Digital Illustration of Research Praxis Journey , 2024
Through the research praxis, an epoch of the community’s experiences was distilled from their collective research activities:
People are yearning for community and connection to humans, and nature, and want to live creative, loving, and flourishing lives. And they are yearning for collaborative and effective strategies to claim power and bring about just change that supports all the community of life. ​
In response to these life dreams & learning needs the website hedgespace.net was created from the co-researching communities' collective voices and activities, and the research analysis.
This co-produced a collection of holistic resources to support public participation in a range of social-environmental activism contexts. The research praxis process informed the purpose, content and shape of the website as a radical learning-for-action platform relevant to the needs of activists from different backgrounds, experience and working approaches. The website is an open-source public community learning resource, a research archive, and a cultural artefact. It is also a publicly accessible form of research publishing in keeping with the principles of PAR.
Geographical Reach
​The research journey took us around North West Clare, South West Galway, down to North Kerry, Ireland. It also linked in with a Popular Education organisation called the Ulex Project in Catalunya in North Spain
Giselle Harvey: Map of the Research Praxis Geographical Trail Journey, 2024
Summary of the Research Activities
The co-researching community was formed through an open public call for
co-researchers to co-develop creative holistic learning-for-action orientated to just change.
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14 people participated during the outreach workshop phase.
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7 people subsequently participated in the core co-researching workshop phase. Some co-researchers were involved in multiple workshops and others in just one.
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Another 40 people participated in various public workshop events arising from the core researching phase.​​
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4 outreach workshops, 4 core co-researching workshop & public workshop action were executed. See praxis trail diagram below (needs updating)
Collective Action can be uneven and fragmented in how it unfolds. ​
Grassroots collectives and campaigns have degrees of structure and participation, with some steady actors but also with many people coming and going, showing up when and where they can to do what they can. Such fluid participation may seem less collective in nature, but these people's comings and goings are part of the collective social movement ecology, a broad network. A person's contribution to an organisation, campaign, or project, can be a seed that someone else may germinate, which may get carried elsewhere to grow but contributes to movement building as a local, national and transnational effort.
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