'Sensing the Anthropocene' Open University Conference and Workshop I Zsófia Illés

The conference and workshop will explore the education methodology of STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art Mathematics) in search of answers natural sciences and technology might offer to the global climate challenge. 

The workshop and the conference will be in English. 

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This workshop investigates creative methodologies which can aid engagement with global challenges exacerbated by the climate crisis.  

The event explores new, culturally relevant, arts-based methodologies that have the potential to provide safe spaces for reflection and deep engagement with a range of global challenges, with a focus on the climate crisis, such as environmental migration and racial justice, food security and health, sustainable development, and conservation.  

Contributors (such as Zsófia Szonja Illés from MOME Budapest) will showcase a range of arts-based methodologies used in teaching and research engagement activities, as well as theoretical models based on participatory art, storytelling, digital approaches, in both face to face and virtual environments.  

Our workshop enquires into the utility and applicability of arts-based methodologies as both novel pedagogies in Higher Education and research methodologies of public engagement. The workshop will explore ways in which such arts-based methodologies could spearhead change beyond the HE sector. 

Title of the presentation and the workshop: 'Sensing the Anthropocene' 

Title of the conference: 'Methodologies for Global Challenges'  

Organiser of the conference: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences & Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), The Open University 

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