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@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