Arrest 8: The Radical Imagination

This podcast begins with a story about an usual currency to reflect on how the radical imagination is fundamental to how we make the world and therefore how we can change it. The podcast is about 14 minutes long. The transcript for the episode and the text of the book mentioned are below, along with … Continue reading Arrest 8: The Radical Imagination →

Arrest 7: Deschooling

This podcast begins with a personal reflection on leaving my job as a school leader then returns to the work of Ivan Illich, mentioned in episode four, to look at his idea of deschooling. The podcast is about 17 minutes long. The transcript for the episode and the text of the book mentioned are below, … Continue reading Arrest 7: Deschooling →

The Unlearning Podcast 8: Worlding with the Immortal Tree with Efe Cengiz

This podcast features Efe Cengiz, a PhD student from Turkey who is doing his doctoral research at the University of Groningen. His doctoral research is focused on olive cultivation, agriculture in the face of climate change and environmental challenges, and giving a voice to the human as well as more-than-human actors in a local context. … Continue reading The Unlearning Podcast 8: Worlding with the Immortal Tree with Efe Cengiz →

Arrest 6: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene

This podcast begins with the name for a new geological epoch first proposed in the early years of this century, and goes on to consider how the words we use contribute to the way we think and act in these challenging times we live in. The podcast is about 18 minutes long. The transcript for … Continue reading Arrest 6: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene →

The Unlearning Podcast 7: Voice Your Place with Iarina Tava

This podcast features Iarina Tava, an architect working in Romania in a interdisciplinary way. We discuss how unlearning relates to the way she works and particularly focus on a project called Voice Your Place that she undertook with high school students in her Romanian home town. The podcast is 28 minutes long. To explore more … Continue reading The Unlearning Podcast 7: Voice Your Place with Iarina Tava →

Arrest 5: Permanent Agriculture

This podcast begins with a composting toilet and goes on to consider a 100 year old travelogue and the relationship between what we eat and excrete. The podcast is about 10 minutes long. The transcript for the episode and the text of the book mentioned itself are below, along with some resources about permaculture. Human … Continue reading Arrest 5: Permanent Agriculture →

The Unlearning Podcast 6: The art of unlearning with Yvonne Feijten.

In this podcast we talk with Yvonne Feijten, an artisan specialising in alternative printing techniques and photography based in Friesland in the north of the Netherlands. We met Yvonne in her studio in De Doas in Leeuwarden, the capital of Friesland. Yvonne in her studio. This is the paper you can hear her rustling toward … Continue reading The Unlearning Podcast 6: The art of unlearning with Yvonne Feijten. →

The Unlearning Podcast 4: Katerin Theys on fashion done differently

This is a podcast in the unlearning project series featuring an interview with Katerin Theys. Katerin is a fashion designer, clothes maker and interior architect based in Hong Kong and Belgium. We discuss how fashion can be done differently and her process from designing, to working with small scale ateliers to selling. The interview is about 20 … Continue reading The Unlearning Podcast 4: Katerin Theys on fashion done differently →

The Unlearning Podcast 3: Music, story-telling and community spaces

This is a podcast in the unlearning project series featuring an interview with Jan-Roelof Bathoorn. Jan-Roelof is a professional accordionist and singer and lives in the 'Oude Rooms Katholieke Ziekenhuis' (also known as the ORKZ), a co-operative housing project in Groningen in the north of the Netherlands. We discuss the value of the idea of unlearning in … Continue reading The Unlearning Podcast 3: Music, story-telling and community spaces →

Beyond instrumentalist leadership in schools: Educative leadership and anarcho-syndicates

An article by Elke and one of our previous interviewees, Stephen Chatelier. From the abstract: Taking our cue from Gunter and Courtney’s critique of dominant discourses in the field of educational leadership, and their engagement with the concept of educative leadership as inclusive and activist, in this article we aim to deepen and expand the … Continue reading Beyond instrumentalist leadership in schools: Educative leadership and anarcho-syndicates →