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PL.A.i meeting April 2025 (2025-04-28 22:59 GMT+2)Meeting 7: April 28, 2025
Meeting 7: April 28, 2025
Play!
Play!
Our playful provocation this month was inspired by a project done with 4-5 year old children last year on the question, What is nature? We used images to prompt discussion about how we might classify (or not classify) different objects and entities. We found it quite complex and not as easy as buying into the dichotomy we are often taught. Tiffany suggested making a sort of spectrum from "most natural" to "most manipulated by humans" which sparked some debate.
Minor gesture
Minor gesture
Erin Manning (2016)
We worked with Manning's (2016) concept of the "minor gesture" to think of all of the small acts that often go unnoticed, but that make all the difference towards transformation.
We looked at an example of children's play as minor gestures from my (Lisa's) doctoral research, and thought of ways it might apply in our own work.
Teach for Climate Justice
Teach for Climate Justice
Karen offered us a beautiful share of her experience joining a retreat with Tom Roderick, author of Teach for Climate Justice, in Costa Rica. Through her storytelling, we got to know about the local people, the Bribri, and their ways of living sustainably with the land. We learned about Bernarda Morales, Indigenous elder of the Bribri community of Yorkin, and she inspired us to consider our "ask" of ourselves and of each other in the fight for climate justice, and how we might take small but meaningful steps in our own habits.
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