4 ways of co-creating right relations
Learn more about how to undo the colonial relations at the root of the climate crisis through deep listening, self-reflexivity, creating space, and being in action. Climate change is both a form and product of colonization. To co-create sustainable futures, we must work to undo the colonial relations at the…
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Special Feature edited on the “How” of transformation
Act now! But act how? Over the last two years I led the Edition of a Special Feature of the journal Sustainability Science on “The ‘How’ of Transformation – Integrated Approaches to Sustainability”! This Special Feature was first envisioned at an international symposium organized by the AdaptationConnects University of Oslo research project…
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Learning through the body about sustainability transformations: article published
Research is emphasizing more and more the importance of connecting disparate ways of knowing, including scientific, artistic, embodied and local knowledges to better understand environmental change and to foster community resilience and engagement. This paper argues for an integrative approach to sustainability transformations, one that reconnects body and mind, that…
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Transformation through art? – Podcast with students of Freie University Berlin (in German)
There is still a huge gap between what we know about sustainability and climate and how we act on an individual and collective level. It is clear that we need a profound change, a transformation. But how do we do that? And what exactly does transformation actually mean? The negative scenarios…
Decolonizing transformations through ‘right relations’ – article published
Back in 2017 and 2018 I interviewed artists and knowledge keepers in Canada BC about the power and potential of art and story in contributing to equitable and sustainable transformations. Back home I shared my experiences with my two colleagues Irmelin Gram-Hanssen and Nicole Schafenacker and we saw there were commonalities…
Learning about climate change in, with an through art – article
How does one engage young people with a topic that is perceived as abstract, distant, and complex, and which at the same time is contributing to growing feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and anxiety among them? In a new paper, published in Climatic Change, I argue that although the important contributions that the arts and humanities can…
Learning through the body about climate change and sustainability transformations – video
The whole adventure started back in 2017 when Sara Dal Corso and I, developed the idea of a community theatre project on climate change. After two years of applying for funding, we could finally start in the beginning of 2019 with a very limited budget. Over a…
ART FOR CHANGE: transformative learning and youth empowerment in a changing climate – article published
What’s the potential of art and transformative learning to empower young people to address climate change? In this new article, Karen O’Brien and I explore how climate-related art projects in education shift mindsets and open up imaginative spaces where students explored and discovered their role…
Young people’s call for action – video
Being part of the Organising Committee of the European Climate Change Adaptation Conference 2019, which took place 28-30 May in Lisbon, one of my tasks was to involve youth in the conference. I produced a video with young people and with my sister Johanna Bentz.…
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