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

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

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 5: Schooling in Mutual Aid with Destiny and Silvana.

In this podcast we talk with Destiny Bunprakong and Silvana Rhoads, both student-teachers in the Bachelor of International Teacher Education for Primary Schools at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. They discuss their vision for a school informed by the principles of mutual aid and ecology. The interview is about 28 minutes long. … Continue reading The Unlearning Podcast 5: Schooling in Mutual Aid with Destiny and Silvana.

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

The Unlearning Podcast 2: Dance, movement and unlearning.

This is a podcast in the unlearning project featuring an interview with Thais Hvid. Thais is a professional dance and movement coach and choreographer. We discuss the application and elucidation of the idea of unlearning in the context of dance and movement, the role of the teacher and draw out ideas applicable to education and … Continue reading The Unlearning Podcast 2: Dance, movement and unlearning.

The Unlearning Podcast 1: Punk!

The first podcast is a discussion about the ways the ethos of punk as a movement informs Punk Ethnography and unlearning. The discussion is about 25 minutes long. The recommendations made are: Stewart, F. and Way, L. (eds) (forthcoming) Punk Pedagogies in Practice: Disruptions and Connections. Bristol: Intellect. David Beer, Punk Sociology, available here. Tracey Thorn, … Continue reading The Unlearning Podcast 1: Punk!