Project Summary
Using feminisms, the arts, and more-than-human methods to develop place-based literacies for ecosocial justice
The Project
Place-based literacies for ecosocial justice
(Centre for People, Place and Planet, Program of Research 2, co-leads Professor Mindy Blaise and Dr Jo Pollitt, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia)
Using feminisms, the arts, and more-than-human methods to develop place-based literacies for ecosocial justice
The present environmental conditions require a radical shift in how people reimagine and reconfigure the future survival of the planet. This involves relearning how to be a part of the planet’s ecological community, including how people should live, learn, and connect with place. Part of this relearning is through attuning to and developing place-based literacies. Place-based literacies involve attending to past and present histories, thinking more deeply about human relations with worlds, engaging with the entanglement of people, place, and planet, and working with the materiality of these complex and uneven relations.
Our research projects sit at the intersections of art, sciences, and education and are grounded in Indigenous methodologies that infuse Indigenous knowledges of place. We use feminisms, the arts, and more-than-human methods to generate place-based literacies for ecosocial justice. Projects include On Country learning, artist-led activations, and education for rethinking human relations with water, weather, and waste relations.
Current projects include:
Weather Studios: This project is funded by the Forrest Creative and Performance Leadership Fellowship and builds on Conversation with Rain – a collaboration with the Art Gallery of Western Australia exploring children’s creative relations with weather as a way of potentially transforming our climate futures.
Feminist responses to climate change: Feminist Responses to Climate Change: Unruly experimentations for unstable times is an exhibition featuring commissioned work by emerging and established artists responding to anthropocentric crisis to extend reparative possibilities for alternative climate futures via multispecies worldings.
Photo credits:
The photographer is Marziya Mohammedali and the images are of the exhibition “Feminist responses to climate change”.
