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Cultivating ways of knowing to foster transformations
Date
2021
Location
Latin America
Project link
Rol
Project design and execution
Team
Co-Coordinators: Patricia Pérez Belmont and Lakshmi Charli Joseph
Collaborators: Jesús Mario Siqueiros, Hallie Eakin, David Manuel-Navarrete and Almendra Cremaschi
Participating Organizations
Steps Centre, United Kingdom
Financing
Institute for Development Studies, United Kingdom
This project is based on a critique of the individualistic and materialistic vision imposed by Western education and knowledge, which has contributed to the current social and environmental crises. Through a series of conversations in Latin America, we explore ways to decolonize thinking and reconnect with diverse and relational ways of being and knowing.
Using the metaphor of cultivation, the conversations address four phases: removing the soil (deconstructing what has been learned), sowing seeds (imagining shared futures), harvesting knowledge (nourishing ourselves collectively) and caring for the land (sustaining the processes of transformation).
