Our developing programme is below – please check back for updates. We are interested in drawing together a rich array of topics and methods, so do please contact Maria Nita if there is a project you might like to present to the group, especially if it has relevance to the themes below, or if you would like to attend.
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.
This longer event will bring together transdisciplinary experiences and reflections on teaching Sustainability and the Environment at the Open University.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
