MINIATURES OF EVOLUTION - COURSE DESCRIPTION IN ENGLISH AND ITALIAN
COMPOSTING WITH WORMS -Original drawing by Freda Blob /Focuszart 2024 Re-imagining our evolutionary past to access the future Empowerment and resilience in times of ecological crisis 5 webinars, 2 hours long each. For the theoretical foundations of the course, please read First person sustainability as hermeneutics for action steps This course aims to develop: A pivotal meaning for the phrase “sustainable development” (at the personal level), Shift from “outer" development goals to evolutionary steps (for society and culture), Attention to and recognition of the occurrence of meaning (truth), Organismic (bodily) intelligence and appreciation of non-human life forms, An understanding of the difference between decentered humanism and anthropocentrism, Cross-contextual, non-binary critical thinking, applied to the construction of “mini-theories of evolution”, a process that merges four of the five dimensions of the...