I am sharing among my mailinglist the following text:
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I share with you some outputs of the week intensive course Democracy
Education for Ecology and Participation – Training (DEEP-T) that took
place in May 2022 in Italy. It aimed to explore in a collective way the
roots of the ecological and climate crisis, and how to deal with them
for a just and sustainable future. During this youth exchange a group of
young participants (18 to 30 years old) and representatives from six
associations critically explored subjects as the EU Green Deal, degrowth
and zero waste, agroecology and permaculture, engaged art and
participatory decision making.
An innovative approach was utilised, based on three recursive phases,
discover (understanding key concepts), engage (engaging and elaborating
the discovered concepts), and transform (utilising the acquired tools
and concepts to create something). This project represented an example
where the formal educational activities blended together with the social
experiences of living together, making DEEP-T an example on how to
redesign the interaction between humans, environments and the living
world in a just, sustainable and imaginative way.
Almost all activities were recorded and put online at:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEGw2rEYSmm6b-ihJeBLyyw/videos
We also produced an art stylish booklet that you can find for the next
week at this link https://we.tl/t-W6E3NhWgka (the artwork is amazing,
you can contact the artist at delrioangela1(a)gmail.com)
We decided to go beyond the fruition of the event and put an extra
effort to edit the video and publish the booklet in order to disseminate
the ideas discussed and maximise the impact of the project. Maybe the
next step is to write about it ;)
Comments are welcome, please share it widely.
Cheers
Federico Venturini