<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">This follows up on Alessandra P's e-mail because I have been meaning to send the attached, in which Ecoversities plays a big role.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I almost mentioned PeDAGoG but didn't think I was quite ready to try to present it well.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Another reason to look forward to our meeting!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">abrazos a todes,<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">John</div>
</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 1:33 PM Alessandra Pomarico <<a href="mailto:alessandrapomarico@gmail.com" target="_blank">alessandrapomarico@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>hello everyone, </div><div>i meant to write for a long time, but overwhelmed with communication and (re) organization. I echo the gratitude for all that has been shared so far, and for this space to exist at the intersection of activism, pedagogy, scholarly and community based knowledge production, supporting ways of learning within a wider ecology and epistemology. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm a curator, writer, and educator. I "walked out" from the Academic world, although I'm often invited back by those brave enough to attempt reforming/ decolonizing it from within, willing to gain perspective through those with experience and practice outside formal institutions. After my PHD in sociology of migration, and a few traumatic experiences (nepotism and misogyny, and disciplinary islands of power in Italian universities where i come from/ high pressure and competition in the States, where I moved to - I simply did not not have the stamina to survive in the academic system, especially during my daughter's early childhood, and found more joy and energy in creating something outside of it.</div><div><br></div><div> With a group of friends, thinkers, artists and activists i co-founded <b>free home university (FHU) </b>a pedagogical artistic experiment (since 2013, Italy) in which we focus on collective, intergenerational, experiential, emergent, holistic forms of learning, centering around communities of struggles (permaculture/ organic farmers, environmental and lgbtqi activists, migrants and asylum seekers, politically and socially engaged artists). We form groups of local, national and international learners - carriers of different knowledges- and we anchor our research in response and in dialogue with our local context. We consider <i>pedagogy as politics, </i>and create temporary communities in which living, studying and working together - within a specific territory- are not separated spheres. We literally live together under the same roof, for a certain time, as the core of our methodology, that includes aspects of our own social reproduction and material form of living.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Our methodology is informed by <u>artistic inquiry and convivial research, </u>art is our tool, or the sensibility/ approach through which we unfold our "action-research" and proceed by questioning. Theater, dance, film making, design, sound, writing, painting, music, hands- on building, have been the ways in which we have in each session unfolded our query and practiced a way of commoning, exploring questions related to food production, land, ecology, forms of oppression, displacement and belonging, but also ways of finding joy, celebrating, being in solidarity and cultivate a spirit of interconnectedness. </div><div>we try to move beyond the critique for the current state of the world, and to embody possibilities of alternative ways of knowing, being and relating, exercising our capacities to enact change and to care for each other and the planet. It's a sort of acupuncture approach that in these 7 years has generated tangible transformation, strong alliance, multiplied the initiatives, generated relationships, and an incredible amount of material and immaterial knowledge. </div><div>www.fhu.art</div><div> <br></div><div>This work led me to meet and become an active member of the <b>Ecoversities Alliance</b> (I'm one of the 6 members of EA steering committee since 2016). EA is an informal planetary network dedicated to reimagining education, encompassing more than 100 initiatives worldwide, and growing into various other networks. A large spectrum of unlearning and up-learning communities, concerned with regenerative forms of knowing, ecology, autonomy, social and environmental justice, decoloniality, Indigenous knowledge, healing, gift and non capitalistic oriented economies, degrowith and spirituality. Within and beyond our multiple knowledge systems, geographies, perspectives, methods and approaches, we find our common denominator in considering education/ pedagogy as a fundamental area for the paradigmatic shift we are called upon to produce, in the defense of life, in all its forms and relations. </div><div>In order to strengthen our relationship and create possibility of further learning and cross pollination, Ecoversities Alliance is supporting exchange visits and residency programs between ecoversities, regional gatherings (Asia, Euromediterrean, Africa, Arab world, Indigenous nations, Latin America), planetarial gatherings (so far Portugal, Costa Rica, India, Mexico, next was supposed to be in South Africa), publications, films and podcasts focusing on education; seeds funds to support new and ongoing ecoversities and initiatives to support networking and collective actions aligned with our vision. </div><div><br></div><div>during the pandemic, Ecoversities is hosting a series of conversations curated by Udi Mandel and myself, called Learning with Covid, </div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEMyvDsLrx88UiQcgf_ITVw" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEMyvDsLrx88UiQcgf_ITVw</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>find out more about EA</div><div><a href="http://www.ecoversities.org" target="_blank">www.ecoversities.org</a></div><div></div><div><br></div><div>I'm also an editor for ARTSEVERYWHERE platform, where I created the inquiry on pedagogy / alternative education and collaborated with other publishing initiatives. </div><div><a href="http://www.artseverywhere.ca" target="_blank">www.artseverywhere.ca</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Pedagogy Otherwise, the reader-</b> is a small volume i edited putting in conversation voices from ecoversities and free home university. you can download it here. </div><div><a href="https://www.fhu.art/pedagogy-otherwise-ed-alessandra-pomarico" target="_blank">https://www.fhu.art/pedagogy-otherwise-ed-alessandra-pomarico</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Apologies for the length of this note, I'm not sure that I will be able to join you in the call tomorrow, that's why I wanted to give you a bit more details. </div><div>I especially would encourage a cross pollination with Ecoversties, as we are interested in expanding the realm of our initiatives and bridge with those like you who are inside the academia, and with whom I felt a profound resonance with </div><div><br></div><div>thank you</div><div><br></div><div>Alessandra Pomarico </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 7:20 AM Sadia Sohail <<a href="mailto:Sadia.Sohail@in.boell.org" target="_blank">Sadia.Sohail@in.boell.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div style="font:10pt "Segoe UI""><div id="gmail-m_5883014702910773189gmail-m_-767055015180202491gmail-m_-3791996460621175775GroupWiseSection_1594108121000_Sadia.Sohail@in.boell.org_880C4A8118C90000A561737835393730_"><div>Dear members of this group, </div><div><br></div><div>Let me also take this opportunity to introduce myself. </div><div><br></div><div>I am Sadia Sohail, working as a programme coordinator at the Delhi office of Heinrich Boll Stiftung, a German foundation affiliated to the Green Party. We at our office are increasingly engaging ourselves in discovering and learning about pedagogies of ecology, gleaning from the traditional knowledge systems, methodologies and mediums of documentation that people at large can resonate with. We hope to share with the group our experiments on that front soon. Having said that and as some of the other colleagues mentioned, I am here to learn and gain from the work that many of you are doing. </div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to the exchange. </div><div><br></div><div>best regards, </div><div>Sadia</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
_______________________________________________<br>
GTA-PeDAGoG mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:GTA-PeDAGoG@lists.ourproject.org" target="_blank">GTA-PeDAGoG@lists.ourproject.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.ourproject.org/mailman/listinfo/gta-pedagog" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.ourproject.org/mailman/listinfo/gta-pedagog</a><br>
</blockquote></div></div>
_______________________________________________<br>
GTA-PeDAGoG mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:GTA-PeDAGoG@lists.ourproject.org" target="_blank">GTA-PeDAGoG@lists.ourproject.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.ourproject.org/mailman/listinfo/gta-pedagog" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.ourproject.org/mailman/listinfo/gta-pedagog</a><br>
</blockquote></div>