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
Workshops
Climate Camp Ireland 2022 & Reflective Art Zine
Reflective Community Lino Print Workshops
Date: August 2022
Location: Ballylongford, Co. Kerry
Duration: 3 Days
Team: Co-Researcher: EC
Lead Researcher: Gh
Zine Workshop Facilitator EM
Workshops: Community arts lino-print making
Purpose:
Creative reflective workshop space for people at climate camp to connect and explore social and environmental issues. Creative reflections would be the source material for an art zine. which could be later shared back to the community and to the wider public. The zine making workshop was a two day event held in October 2022 in Ennistymon, Co. Clare
Climate camp Ireland has 3 main aims: Resistance - Education - Coming Together
Climate camp 2022 was organised by Slí Eile, an intersectional eco-feminist group.
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Bringing people together to build a strong radical climate movement on the Island of Ireland.
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Creating a collectively held space that provides a model of the society we want and need beyond capitalism. Including education and the arts.
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Resisting the planned Shannon LNG Terminal through direct action (climate camp Ireland, 2022
Resource Designed by Co-Researcher EC
HEdge Space at Climate Camp was three-day creative workshop space for people to creatively reflect on climate camp 2022, and social-ecological issues generally, using community print making. The workshops would give campers a place to meet and build relationships and participate in the camp in a less heady way. The artwork produced would be the source material for a creative zine that could be distributed to campers and to the general public as both a counter-cultural artefact and source of counter-hegemonic knowledge.
A follow-up zine making weekend to co-produce the art-zine using that reflective artwork was also planned. This offered additional space and creative process to reflect on the camp outcomes. The distribution of the zine aimed to build solidarity relationships within the movement and also connect the movement with a broader public and a call to future action.
Letters to the Future: Facilitated by Rob Ireson.
Co-R EC proposed the lino print based creative reflective space at Climate Camp as a way to participate at camp that was ‘operating out of another bucket’. The workshop space was originally designed with both short ‘drop-in’ sessions and facilitated structured lino print workshops on offer. The space evolved into a continuous drop-in space with lino print workshops happening continuously. The flexible drop-in participation approach allowed more people to engage. Some people came for a quick chat, or left a short verbal or written reflection, or marked a page in a book that was important to them. Others came to the space every day to do print making. The lino print ‘Ní Neart go Cur le Chéile’, meaning ‘there is no strength without unity’ in Gaelic, was cut by one person over three days.
Reflective questions included:
why did you come to climate camp? How do we make social-ecological change together? and workshop feedback questions such as, why did you come to this workshop?
Resources