Climate, complexity and intergenerational responsibility
Building on the University of the Forest's digital campus initiative (universityoftheforest.org), this talk explores how the ontology of modern education has socialised us into a form of narrow-bounded intelligence, marked by the artificial separation between humans and the rest of nature. This narrow-bounded intelligence creates a crisis of collective senses and feelings that is the root of our current meta-crisis, characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, putting humanity at risk of premature extinction. The talk will also explore the need for a collective cultural movement towards boundary-spanning intelligence and, latterly, relational wisdom if we are to face the meta-crisis with discernment and responsibility.
Bio
Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti is the Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria in Canada. Vanessa has more than 100 published articles and experience in various sectors in areas of education related to global justice, global citizenship, critical literacies, Indigenous knowledge systems and the climate and nature emergency. Vanessa is the author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing humanity's wrongs and the implications for social activism and one of the founders of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Arts/Research Collective.