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Introduction
Sustainability researcher and performing artist, María works on the interphase between arts, education, facilitation and sustainability sciences. Her research and teaching interests focus on sustainability learning and environmental education, knowledge co-creation processes, arts-based sustainability, participation, and the potentials of transdisciplinary dialogues between different types of actors (schools, local communities, scientists, artists) to foster more just socioecological transitions
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January 2024 - May 2024
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Despite the recognized importance of transdisciplinarity, including art–science collaborations, for tackling the complex challenges of the Anthropocene, little is known about the internal mechanisms of such alliances. At its best, transdisciplinarity should involve social learning with transformative potential. However, we still need evidence on ho...
Values have been recognized as critical leverage points for sustainability transformations. However, there is limited evidence unpacking which types of values are associated with specific types of sustainable and unsustainable futures, as described by future scenarios and other types of futures-related works. This paper builds on a review of 460 fu...
Participatory scenario planning is a powerful approach to guide diverse stakeholders in creating and reflecting on visions of plausible and desired futures. However, this process requires tools to guide collective action to implement such visions within management agendas. This study develops, applies, and analyzes a novel visual tool within a virt...
Informe de la investigación realizada por investigadoras del grupo TURBA para el proyecto "Amplificant l'interconnexió entre la justicia climàtica i la justicia sexual i reproductiva", coordinado por L'Associació - Drets Sexuals i Reproductius.
Este informe nace de la inquietud desde un sector del movimiento en defensa de los derechos sexuales y...
Embracing the UN Agenda 2030 is a challenge for Higher Education Institutions, especially for those that already have well-established competence frameworks but without extensive experience in sustainability education. Among other things, they must embed sustainability values in their strategic academic planning and organizational work. Building ca...
Different educational approaches have emphasised the relevance of experiential learning when approaching complex and highly dynamic systems and the need to combine different ways of learning, knowing and valuing reality when educating for sustainability. The arts, understood as accessible cultural practices and expressions, can help educators and l...
The European Performing Science Night (EPSN), funded under Horizon 2020- MSCA-NIGHT 2020bis started in April 2021 with the aim to bring science and researchers closer to the general public (and vice versa) through a science- expanding methodology based on the combination of scientific excellence and performing arts.
This document, Deliverable D.3.1...
In recent years, a profusion of methods, practices, and experiences has emerged in the interface between arts and sustainability science. Drawing from two strong currents within sustainability science, namely, the emphasis on transdisciplinary approaches and the need to move towards societal transformations, such hybrid approaches seemingly contrib...
SPOON - STEM education and Practices are Not Only about the
cONtent - is an European project focused on mentoring and training
teachers in inquiry-based learning approaches that focus on sharing
with students the scientific process (and not only on the content or
scientific results), and the scientific way of thinking (critical thinking,
inquiry-ba...
This teaching guide is aimed at professors, educators, and researchers interested in connecting research, teaching and art to better understand this globalized world, full of conflicts and so many uncertainties. It can also be used in work with students to build skills that allow them to develop collaboration, creativity, dialogue, reflection and c...
Although efforts are being made to bring science closer to secondary school students, science is still mostly perceived within stereotypic frameworks, hindering students’ identification with it. In this paper, we claim the role that arts-based approaches can play in science education to break these biased views and understandings and generate a mor...
The European Commission policy approach of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is gaining momentum in European research planning and development as a strategy to align scientific and technological progress with socially desirable and acceptable ends. One of the RRI agendas is science education, aiming to foster future generations’ acquisition...
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have the mandate of promoting sustainability through addressing the Agenda 2030. However, how this is being understood and framed in both discourse and practice by HEIs remains an underexplored issue. This article interrogates the concept of sustainability embraced by ten key HEIs networks at global and regional...
Resumen: En este artículo reflexionamos sobre las potencialidades de conectar el arte, el activismo y la investigación para entender, analizar y comunicar qué son los conflictos socioambientales, sus causas y consecuencias [1]. En particular, presentamos y evaluamos una experiencia piloto de arte y educación activista con estudiantes universitarios...
Guía docente basados en un proyecto piloto en la asignatura de Usos Humanas del Planeta Terra, en la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Puentes entre activismo, arte, investigación y educación.
Contiene cinco fichas para que el alumnado explore a través de la música, el teatro y la plataforma on-line de conflictos socio-ambientales (Ejatlas.org) o...
We examine the impact of researchers’ interaction and drama-based techniques when learning science on students’ views of scientists and motivations for studying science. We do so through mixed-methods in five secondary schools in three countries. Students changed their perception of scientists toward a less stereotyped image, particularly where the...
Humanity has never lived in a world of global average temperature above two degrees of current levels. Moving towards such High-End Climate Change (HECC) futures presents fundamental challenges to current governance structures and involves the need to confront high uncertainties, non-linear dynamics and multiple irreversibilities in global social-e...
PERFORM was a research project seeking to investigate the effects of the use of participatory science education methods based on performing arts in fostering secondary school students’ motivations and engagement with science and STEM subjects. For that purpose, performance-based activities were developed and integrated into science education worksh...
The search for decisive actions to remain below 1.5 C of global temperature rise will require profound cultural transformations. Yet our knowledge of how to promote and bring about such deep transformative changes in the minds and behaviours of individuals and societies is still limited. As climate change unravels and the planet becomes increasingl...
The emerging paradigm of responsible research and innovation (RRI) in the European Commission policy discourse identifies science education as a key agenda for better equipping students with skills and knowledge to tackle complex societal challenges and foster active citizenship in democratic societies. The operationalisation of this broad approach...
Three researchers share their thoughts about a roundtable discussion on “Emotional Political Ecologies” during the ENTITLE Undisciplined Environments Conference, held in Stockholm from 20 to 24 March 2016. The roundtable participants – Christos Zografos (chair), Neera Singh, Andrea Nightingale and Marien González Hidalgo – discussed the main outcom...
In recent years the potential and possible contributions of art-based methods for engaging with social-ecological complexity have been highlighted, in particular in areas related to action research, inquiry-based learning, participatory governance and knowledge integration. Despite repeated calls within the resilience community (Ecology and Society...
Providing opportunities for younger generations to voice out their views in the building of our common futures within the limits, opportunities, and dynamics of the biosphere is a central component in sustainability learning. To this aim, a novel methodological approach using participatory theater was implemented to explore future scenarios with yo...
Citizen science can raise people’s understanding of science while helping scientists conduct their research. Yet its potential for driving transformative learning is empirically underexplored. We present the results of a preliminary study with secondary school students engaged in a long-term citizen science project, from the formulation of the rese...
Learning how to boost collective imagination and creativity is a key component in transformative processes supporting community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). The use of the arts in such contexts is becoming a prominent methodological approach in strategies aimed at opening new spaces for public dialogue and reflection. The arts play a...
The recent context of global food emergency and ecological crisis has increased the relevance of people's struggle for food sovereignty (FSv), which promotes the transformation of the dominant food system and claims ‘the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and thei...
Coping with global environmental change demands new forms of civic engagement and interaction able to transform passive audiences attending to the drama of unsustainability into committed actors for sustainability. This entails linking diverse sources of scientific knowledge with personal experiences, emotion and ethical judgments. In this paper, w...
En un contexto de incertidumbre y complejidad como el que plantea el cam-bio socioecológico que atravesamos, el artículo plantea la necesidad de cons-truir un marco de análisis complejo que logre plantear propuestas y estable-cer criterios para la toma de decisiones que permita avanzar hacia un proyec-to de cambio social en consumo y estilos de vid...
Vivimos en tiempos de crisis... así empieza este libro que no pretende analizar lo desastrosamente mal que están las cosas. Todo lo contrario, es un libro de utopías en construcción, de procesos emancipatorios, de cómo reconstruir todo aquello que se relaciona con nuestros campos y nuestros alimentos, más allá de lo que se nos ha impuesto como rent...
Texto completo disponible en:
http://opcions.org/sites/default/files/pdf/InformeCambioGlobalConsumo.pdf
El Informe construye un marco de información en torno al consumo y la sostenibilidad en España pasando del diagnóstico a la construcción de escenarios de futuro y a la elaboración de propuestas. Es el resumen del trabajo coordinado entre distin...
Este estudio se presenta como una revisión del sistema agroalimentario actual desde el punto de vista de la energía y de los impactos de su uso, por parte de los distintos modelos de producción, distribución y consumo alimentario. Se divide en tres bloques fundamentales: i) Introducción al sistema agroalimentario mundial y a las alternativas existe...
Climate change and emissions reduction occupy a central place in the international political agenda. Various frameworks dealing with emissions are widespread and address issues from the international to the local level, from public to the private sectors. This research aims at delivering a methodological improvement of emission inventories by inclu...
