Un-Learning Ecologies: Workbook Art Education in the Ecological Crisis

<p>Species extinction, climate change, and worsening ecological and social inequality: art educators and teachers are confronted with urgent new challenges. How can art education make critical and innovative contributions to a new sense of responsibility and agency?How could a future-oriented art education look like, in which all generations take care of our planet? Which methodological challenges and necessary actualizations are there for a post-human, emancipatory educational work?</p> <p>The bilingual, participatory publication <em>Un-learning Ecologies: Workbook Art Education in the Ecological Crisis</em> should serve art educators, art teachers, students, curators and artists as an open, performative platform to deal with the ecological crisis and environmental art education, and as a format that can be further developed and activated.</p> <p>Scores, arts assignments, possible courses of action and experiments were developed based on contemporary theories on ecopedagogies, critical pedagogy, transformative learning and <em>Un-/Learning. </em>Questions of interspecies communication and solidarity, <em>Hydrofeminism</em> and <em>Plant Being</em>, as well as <em>Healing</em> and <em>Decolonizing Nature</em> are included as well as questions of intergenerational learning and speculative future scenarios.</p> <p><em>Bilingual in German and English.</em></p>