Kate Coleman
Associate Professor Kathryn (Kate) Coleman is a neurodivergent artist-educator working at the intersections of art, technology, climate futures, and teacher education at the University of Melbourne. As co-director of SWISP Lab and President of Art Education Australia, she leads internationally recognised work in speculative design, a/r/tography, and living-lab methodologies across Melbourne, Bengaluru, Delhi, Atlanta and beyond. Her research explores how creativity, digital humanities, and more-than-human pedagogies can transform teacher education in precarious times. Through collaborative storytelling, climate action, and studio-based inquiry, she works with teachers and young people to imagine and make more just, equitable and relational futures.
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HAK.io workshop 1: Science Gallery Bengaluru
Meet the Mediators Hacking the Anthropocene workshop 1 with the SGB Mediators. HAK.io unboxing the Hacking the Anthropocene Kit for learning the land and carbon curriculum design. How do you unbox? Co-designing walking protocols for learning with the land: hacking the Anthropocene. Climate stories: Mapping our stories across time.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/swisp/2023/07/29/hak-io-workshop-1-science-gallery-bengaluru
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Heart for the Earth Festival at Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum, Bangalore
In July 2023 SWISP Lab joined over 200 school students at Heart for Earth Festival 2023 in Bengaluru with partner, Science Gallery Bengaluru and the amazing team of Carbon mediators who rocked the house with the ‘Let’s get Quizzy’ show. A highlight was Professor Rohini Balakrishnan starting the day with a fascinating keynote ‘Voices of […] -
Who funds SWISP?
SSHRC Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellowhip AARE University of Melbourne Dyason Fellowship Creative Futures University of Melbourne Global Student Diversification – Co-investment support for community engagement activities in India with MGSE -
The Othello Theatre in Education Project – Fostering creativity and wellbeing in the face of high levels of violence against women.
The first premise of wellbeing is being and staying alive. Without life, wellbeing is obsolete. This youth theatre in education project targets what has been called, in the wake of the most recent Australian family killings, ‘the most pressing issue of terrorism our society faces – where at least one woman is murdered each week’ […] -
The Climate, Art, and Digital Activisms Festival of Ideas (Melbourne/Narrm 21-23 November) 2022
The Climate, Art, and Digital Activisms Festival of Ideas (Melbourne/Narrm 21-23 November) is a free event bringing together local community members, interdisciplinary artists, scientists and educators in Melbourne for a unique conversation. The urgency of the climate crisis will bring world media, activists, politicians, policy-makers, scientists and educators together for @COP27 in November 2022. Yet many people at […] -
COP this right now: why the next generation can’t make miracles on its own
By Kathryn Coleman, Sarah Healy, George Variyan and Brad Gobby -
Welcome to Learning with the Land PhD candidate, Cassandra Truong.
Cassie joins us as the recipient of the Learning with the Land UoM PhD scholarship. Cassie will be blogging about her research here, so watch this space. ‘Learning with the Land’ is a SSHRC funded partnership (Lead CI Professor Rita Irwin, UBC) that responds to the urgent need for innovative models of learning, teaching, and scholarship […] -
Will strange omissions from Chicago appear in Naarm this year?
SWISP Lab wrote a little blog for the EduResearch Matters over the weekend. You can find it here
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