Category: Our Collective
Posts about people in the Collective
Wildspace Learning Event 12 September
RECONNECTING WITH NATURE—AN EVENT FOR YOU https://events.humanitix.com/reconnecting-for-resilience-facing-change-together-a-workplayshop Uncertainty has always been here, now we’re noticing it. Wakeful leaders, thinkers and NATURE herself, implore us to listen. However, it may just be too hard to hear this knowing alone. Do we hide? Do we escape? Do we try to create ‘a normal’ from our cushioning among empty […]
Quotes for July-August: From Richard Sennett
The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism Richard Sennett’s book, The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism, was published in 1998 yet it has a particular resonance today as employment becomes less and less stable. Before COVID, some young people seemed to enjoy [...]
Jem Blendell—The Human Propensity for ‘Escape’ from the Reality of Death
The Ideology of Escape This post is taken from Professor Jem Bendell’s Deep Adaptation Forum newsletter That modern humans have been oppressing and destroying life on Earth is the most obvious and salient observational fact of our time. I am interested in the deepest reasons for that, beneath the injuries from colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy, anthropocentrism […]
Time for the Liveable Income Guarantee in a Post COVID World
Beyond Job Seeker and Job Keeper This article, published in The Conversation by John Quiggin, (UQ) Elise Klein (ANU) and Troy Henderson (USYD) was the product of discussion among a group that also included author Tim Dunlop, Western Sydney University emeritus professor Jane Goodall and QUT senior lecturer Dr Jenni Mays. It forms part of the [...]
Decolonisation of Knowledge—Alex Broadbent
Alex Broadbent Co-Director, African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, and Executive Dean, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg Academia and Decolonisation It has become unfashionable to admit that one doesn’t really understand what phrases like “decolonising knowledge” or “a decolonised curriculum” mean. This is unfortunate. The process of coming to understand what decolonisation […]
Timescapes Exhibition at Gang Gang Gallery, Lithgow
The Exhibition The Timescapes Exhibition will be held at the gorgeous Gang Gang Gallery in Lithgow during the month of July, with its official opening on Saturday 4 July at 2.30pm. The exhibition of paintings and sculptures has been curated by Sharon Howard, owner of Gang Gang Gallery, and the sculptor, Henryk Topolnicki of Gallery [...]
Quotes for June—The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
Lorraine: Well, as we move into a less restricted life we can also look forward to bookshops and libraries opening up and the joy of new books. My own bookshelves have been perused over and over. However, revisiting and rereading old books can renew forgotten aspirations, offer inspiration and hope at a time when it [...]
Ways of Thinking Ecologically—David Wright
David Wright David works through the Social Ecology group in the School of Education, Western Sydney University. He is increasingly interested in how ecological understanding can be articulated, communicated and approached through effective learning programs. David has a background in writing for performance and drama and performance studies and brings this to work in his [...]