6 December 2024, 1-2 pm NZST
EVENT SUMMARY
This event is the eighth in the Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable World seminar series hosted by the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau.
The seminar will explore transdisciplinary curriculum and pedagogies for fostering positive social and environmental impact. It will discuss different forms of teaching and learning that invite people to address real-world complex challenges by creatively applying practices from different fields, and bridging diverse perspectives and knowledges to imagine and create regenerative futures. This presentation will be wide ranging, highlighting different examples, drawing from her collaborative practice and empirical research within and beyond Transdisciplinary School, at University of Technology Sydney. It will be loosely structured into three parts:
- Transdisciplinary Capabilities: discussing insights from a large survey with alumni of interdisciplinary-oriented and trandisciplinary programs at UTS, on transdisciplinary capabilities and ways these capabilities can foster positive social and environmental impact in professional settings.
- Trandisciplinary Practices: discussing different examples of learning and teaching to support development of transdisciplinary capabilities for regenerative futures, including arts-based approaches, embodied learning; mutual learning with staff, students and external partners; eco-centred co-creation practices; and the role of creative intelligence in rapidly changing university environments.
- Scaling Transformations & Transitions: Themes emerging from a special issue Pratt is co-editing for the peer-reviewed Journal Higher Education Research & Development entitled “Educating for Societal Transitions”.
BIOGRAPHIES:
Dr Susanne Pratt is an award-winning educator, researcher and artist working at the intersection of foresight, ecological change, creativity, and transformative learning. She is a senior lecturer in Transdisciplinary School at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Her recent research explores participatory futuring to inspire environmental and social change in the present. Her creative work has been internationally exhibited in various forms, including digital storytelling, site-specific installations, speculative walk shops, sound works, and participatory events. Susanne grew up on a kiwifruit orchard in the Waikato, Aotearoa/NZ, and lives in Sydney, on unceded Gadigal Country.
Dr Giedre Kligyte is a Senior Lecturer and the Transdisciplinary Electives Program Director at Transdisciplinary School, University of Technology Sydney. Her research focuses on transforming university education to advance more sustainable and socially just futures. In particular, she explores how different perspectives and relationships across boundaries can be leveraged to create “third spaces”—environments where difference, experimentation, and co-creation are embraced to stimulate mutual learning, new ways of thinking, and creativity. Giedre is dedicated to designing learning experiences that prepare individuals for uncertain futures, with a particular interest in developing future-oriented capabilities such as systems and futures thinking, creativity, innovation, collaboration, and change-making as well as reflexive capacities.
EVENT INFO
Date & time
Friday 6 December 2024, 1-2pm NZST
WEBINAR Zoom link:
https://auckland.zoom.us/ j/94207039117
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