12th June 2024
Convenors: George Revill and Lindsay Polly Crisp
This unprogrammed lunchtime session will provide a space to reflect on the work of Open Ecologies over the past year, share news and updates, and make plans for the year to come.
15th May 2024
Convenor: Sam Shaw
This longer event will bring together transdisciplinary experiences and reflections on teaching Sustainability and the Environment at the Open University.
15th April 2024
Convenors: Lindsay Polly Crisp
In this lunchtime seminar, we will investigate encounters with nature in urban spaces.
1st March 2024
This in-person gathering provided an opportunity for group members from across faculties and disciplines to get together in person to exchange ideas and make plans, with visits to the Polar Museum and Cambridge Botanic Garden.
14th February 2024
Convenors: Sam Shaw and Lindsay Polly Crisp
In this reading group session we will focus on the Epilogue from Arctic Dreams by the nature writer Barry Lopez, introduced by Sam Shaw (Lecturer in Art History). For more information, please click on the title above.
15th November 2023
Convenor: Carla Benzan
In this participatory workshop we will imagine new ways of working in ecologically informed ways in public education in the arts and sciences. We’ll be looking more closely at identifying methodological synergies and ways forward to form the basis for a funding bid in 2024. Click on the title above for more information.
18th October 2023
Convenors: George Revill and Lindsay Polly Crisp
This seminar will introduce work that hinges in different ways on the theme of living. Dr Kadmiel Maseyk (Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sciences) will discuss the use of a Living Lab for nature recovery education, engagement and research, on the Open University campus in Milton Keynes, and Professor Graham Harvey (Emeritus Professor in Religious Studies) will connect the theme of ‘living’ with new materialism, animacy and thriving. Click on the title above to read the abstracts.
17th May 2023
This seminar, with Christian Nold (Design) and Carla Benzan (Art History), will reflect on the ways in which 'citizen science' and creative practice intersect across historical and contemporary contexts.
8th February 2023
In this seminar, Dr Lucy Dablin (Lecturer in Environment and Sustainability) and Dr Amy Jane Barnes (Staff Tutor and Lecturer, Art History) will introduce work that hinges in different ways on sustainable forms of agriculture.
18th January 2023
Work-in-progress seminar, presented by Theodora Philcox (Engineering and Innovation).
