Futures Forum – 30th July 2025 – with Bronwyn Sutton. In this Futures Forum, Bronwyn Sutton shared the ecology of “curious practices” that supported her to enact a complex and deeply transformative, practice-led and arts-based PhD research project. She described the progression from ‘accidentally theorising’ a creative practice as multispecies collaborative inquiry to critical embodied […]
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Futures Forum – 7th May 2025 – with Kathryn Riley. The focus on physical literacy in physical education is a welcome corrective to more traditional approaches to movement pedagogies, yet mainstream concepts of physical literacy remain unduly narrow, as rooted in colonial logics that continue to separate humans from the Earth while locating dominant categories […]
Futures Forum – 20th May 2025- with Cher Hill In this Futures Forum, I will share the story of a participatory action-research project to support elementary school students (ages 9-12) in building reciprocal relationships with the land, enhancing collective wellness. This work, enacted with teacher Neva Whintors, built on a previous project guided by local […]
Futures Forum – 4th June – Briony Towers and Joe Ferguson The current generation of Australian school students has known nothing other than escalating disaster risk. Across the continent, systemic drivers—including climate change, urban expansion, socio-economic inequality, environmental degradation, and the enduring impacts of colonisation—are exposing increasing numbers of people to the damage and disruption […]
Futures Forum – 7th May 2025 – with Ruth Irwin In this FF, Ruth Irwin spoke about how Economic growth has been understood as progressive. With each year, working-class families can save more and eventually buy a fridge, a car, and a house. But young people today no longer have such expectations. Seventy-five years of […]