Alter Eco/s : Un/Learning in Climate Dissonance

Alter Eco/s is a series of public-facing events that sprouts from the shared experiences of faculty and students who weaved ecology, technology and pedagogy within design, architecture, and urbanism and landscape at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. It brings together diverse creative practitioners from Oslo and beyond to share their experiences designing, facilitating and/or participating in courses, lessons, workshops or any other activity where non-human others (such as islands, a cow, a river, an algorithm, etc.) were present (appointed or invited) to mediate learning as an instructor, guide, mentor, assistant, etc.

Within a lively atmosphere that includes talks, workshops, performances, and other co-creative moments at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and online, participants in Alter Eco/s will likely discuss, reflect, and experiment on:

• What forms of change can pedagogical encounters with other-than-humans bring about within courses and research for students, teachers and institutions?
• What methods, approaches, tools, and creative practices are used in different pedagogical contexts and activities? What forms of knowledge exchange do these facilitate and obfuscate?
• How do we navigate the uncertainties of un/learning through more-than-human encounters in “the classroom”?
• How do we engage with the harms to humans and non-humans that emerge in these provocative and ambivalent learning spaces?

More details on Alter Eco/s program and dates coming in the next few days 👀💨✨✨✨