Ecologies in Practice and Learning: Arts Interventions in the Earth Crisis

You are invited to a book launch for Ecologies in Practice and Learning (Matthews, Ed. 2025). Editor and contributors will introduce concepts and content in this new collection.

In this launch for Ecologies in Practice and Learning, the editor Dr Miranda Matthews and contributing authors will present the central motivations for the edited collection.

Matthews will introduce authors focusing on: 1) Addressing climate injustice; 2) Practice research and arts activism in universities; 3) Eco-pedagogies in site-specific practice and collaboration; 4) Sustainable arts practice: Arts educators in museums, galleries and community spaces; 5) Artists and arts collectives: Taking action in the Earth Crisis; 6) Ecosophy and aesthetic imaginaries.

This edited collection brings together arts educators, practice researchers, curators and artists to explore ecological approaches to learning, gathering awareness and assembling protest in times of Earth crisis. Each chapter contributes new understandings of different arts processes that have the potential for enabling lifelong and future-changing reparative interventions.

Readers are encouraged in their own regenerative creative processes, by authors who have developed ecologies in practice research in universities, with schools, with visitors to theatres, gallery and museum audiences, and arts practice in community settings. The book intends to assist equitable educational practice in environments that have been compromised, and increasingly devastated, by the effects of the Anthropocene. It will be of interest to academics, practice researchers and students developing ecological arts projects.

Ecologies in Practice and Learning is in the Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures Series. This book:

Helps readers to create new ways of synthesising ecological theory, practice and research
Argues for expanded, heterogeneous, inclusive and decolonising arts practice
Centralises dialogical, compassionate pedagogies that bring healing and practical approaches to readers.

Contributing Authors are:
Andrew Amondson; Dennis Atkinson; Landing Bassene; Gabriele Budach; Sudip Chakroborthy; Kevin Davidson; Francis Gilbert; Graham Jeffery; Emese Hall; Penny Hay; Aminul Hoque; Erin Manning; Miranda Matthews; Ben McDonnell; Bridget McKenzie; Terri Newman; Molly Pardoe; Ben Parry; Henrietta Patience; Stephania Rovira Ochoa; Sharmila Samant; Trish Scott; Gohar Sharoyan; Jenn Steverson; Anna Stewart; Chris Turner; WochenKlausur; Juan Pablo Zamora Figueroa; Roberto Andrés Zamora Figueroa.

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