A radical holistic edge-fusion learning space with a collection of really useful collaborative tools for making social-ecological just change.
A radical holistic edge-fusion learning space with a collection of really useful collaborative tools for making social-ecological just change.
Workshops
HEdge Space
A Holistic Do-it-Together Tool kit.
Praxis tools to support people bring about just change, together
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Change is not made alone!
Co-Researcher KOB
HEdgeSpace.net is an open access radical Adult and Community Education learning-for-action resource.
The website contains a collection of practice informed resources which are intended to support people to undertake collective political action to bring about social-environmental just change. These resources were co-produced in the West of Ireland using a creative participatory action research approach. The research involved the collective contributions of 14 public co-researchers and 35 public participants who co-created and participated in a series of creative holistic praxis workshops.
The workshop practice developed was a fusion of radical art-based popular education (Pop Ed), the arts and crafts movement, social practice art, (social) permaculture, STEAM, Transdisciplinary learning and research, and deep forms of Education for Sustainability. This weaving together of people, place, practices, and knowledge fields aimed to support inclusive public participation in a range of collaborative social-environmental changemaking contexts and to support strategic alliance and coalition building across movements and institutions. ​
The website is also a cultural artefact and research archive of the local activist knowledge it produced for community capacity building for collective action. It offers an alternative and more accessible form of publishing to traditional (dusty on the shelf) academic papers Míle Buíochas to all involved (see acknowledgments below and visit 'our community' page for more details).​
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​This Art-Based Participatory Action Research Project PhD was initiated by Giselle Harvey, an artist, educator and activist-researcher from the West of Ireland. The research was hosted by The Limerick School of Art & Design, TUS, & Funded by The Irish Research Council through the GOIPG scholarship award. Many thanks to the Irish Research Council. The PhD ran from 2020 to 2024, but PAR never ends.​​
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Our Story
This project started with one person trying to bring more creativity, nature connection, experiential and embodied approaches to their activism and education work. From this seed a temporary collective grew and co-produced the resources on this website. The researching community consisted of members of the public interested in social-environmental justice activism. They found the workshops 'a great way to get out of your head and into your body.' and 'to get away from 'talking heads' when doing activism work.
Language Hack - A Radical Glossary
Language is power, and similarly to education and culture, it can be used as a tool of oppression or liberation. Here you will find some powerful radical lingo in bite sized descriptions to add to your political literacy toolbox. These terms have been produced through the intergenerational labour of people acting within social movements throughout history, to describe the dynamic nature of how power, as a tool of oppression which can be reclaimed for agency and liberation.
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Radical Holistic Edge Fusion Workshops
Here you will find links to 17 workshop reports. These reports offer workshop outlines which you can use or adapt to your own practice. The reports also illustrate practice outcomes and links to other resources relevant to each workshop.
The workshops are based on a holistic praxis. Praxis in the popular education tradition is a radical group learning process which involves collective reflection and dialogue to inform collective political actions for change orientated to emancipatory social transformation (Freire 1970).
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Acknowledgements
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Massive thanks the people who generously contributed their time, knowledge and labour as co-researchers of this project. Whether you came for five workshops or one, your collective lived experience of struggle, your activist insights, and your ongoing curiosity about how to make just change contributed to a creative holistic learning-for-action resource which can benefit the many.
Co-researchers are listed in alphabetical order:
Katie Burke, Eve Campbell, Cynthia Cox, Kate Daly, Clair Fitzgerald, Christina Iancu, Nick Jones, Kat Gribkoff, Joe Nix, Claire Murray, Kate O’ Brien, Su Powel, Anna Swisher, Fiona Mae White,
and guest co-researcher Ciana Lucy Spel.