Keri Facer

Educating the ecological imagination: the work of Black Mountains College Learning institutions are emerging to address the ecological crisis, but they need a robust infrastructure to sustain longer-term initiatives and innovation.

Learning institutions are emerging to address the climate and ecological crisis.

🌱 @kerifacer.bsky.social and colleagues at the Black Mountains College reflect on what it means to develop an anchor educational institution for ‘ecological imagination’: www.jrf.org.uk/imagination-....

18.02.2025 10:00 — 👍 13    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0

Unfortunately this piece misses the complexity of current work in phenology, but also the very interesting things we can learn about time and timing from it. What I was told many times in my fieldwork is that ecological timing is rarely based on perfect timing but doing things well enough.

07.02.2025 12:12 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

More-than-human thinking for multiple audiences Understanding the potential of designing with and for other species and living systems feels like an urgent undertaking.

Here's a brief blogpost in which I join dots between the different facets of our More than Human research theme, which includes grants and fellowships, a major exhibition, Future Observatory Journal and a glorious new commission in the Design Museum's atrium futureobservatory.org/news/more-th...

16.01.2025 13:05 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

There are some brilliant people in this team!

18.12.2024 09:33 — 👍 12    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Decorative image of a crowd of people on steps, with a graphic of a raised hand pressing a green target in the foreground

Researchers working in critical edtech studies - just over 2 weeks to send proposals for our conference in Zurich next June. Help build a community of critical edtech research. Especially hope it appeals to doctoral and early career researchers www.de.ed.ac.uk/news/call-ab...

28.11.2024 20:03 — 👍 51    🔁 39    💬 1    📌 3

Road sign reading ‘changed priorities ahead’

Here’s hoping. Hello Bluesky.

19.11.2024 20:32 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0