Schooling & pedagogy
Systems of education are reflected upon via the Climate forum, which is a discussion and exchange platform that sits at the core of the Spatial Practices programme at Central Saint Martins. The Spatial Practices programme encompasses courses with the built environment. As an interdisciplinary research and pedagogy project, it engages with history, theory and practice at the intersection of ethics of care, environmental humanities, and the climate and biodiversity crisis. All events were run and overseen by Catalina Mejia Moreno while I was in assistance to different times and events through out.
Snippet of prom Climate Forums, Missing Ingredients table
Reclaim your curriculum, call to climate action
November, 2022, CSM, London
In this event, students from across Spatial Practices programme were asked to share ideas, connect and act on how their curriculum needs to change in order to address the climate and ecological emergency. It focused on how education must be improved and expanded to include wider communities. With the simple question "What if?" the forum asks: What is missing and what needs to change? How should the curriculum change to embrace climate literacy teaching and assessment? With whom we need to work and cultivate meaningful dialogues? What and who inspire us to make a change? As a student and individual, how can you contribute and what can you bring to the table?
The event ran workshops online across different programmes leading up to an in person event during Cop26, the table included a scroll of participation from PhD student Juliana Muniz Westcott Ribeiro Muniz Westcott. This event was overseen by Catalina Mejia Moreno
Riso print made with MA Cities workshop at TURF Projects
Snippets from a series of workshops made on Miro. They took place online asking students for various kinds of participation. It asked for gifts, questions and analysis of texts. A short video made by Cameron Bray shows more of the workshops, layout and operations.
Video from Cameron Bray
Pictures from the event on 11th November, 2021, participants were invited around the table and scroll to evoke different deep conversations of climate.
22nd April, 2022, CSM, London
Missing Ingredients is a table hosted by Spatial Practices and the Climate Forum, it evoked conversations of climate justice especially regarding CSM’s spatial practices programme. The table was planned to be activated by two conversations - one on curriculum activism that asked how we can include Climate Justice in our curriculum, and the second one offers possible remedies to our programmes manifesto and ask how it can bring forward missing ingredients of change. Prompts were allocated around the table as speakers participated with colour coded strings. When “in-active” the table held as an archive of the past conversations that had occurred, surrounded by Spatial Practices Forest School's soundtrack by Cameron Bray. Participants were asked to contribute with their morning coffees or stop by to listen in, observe and question. This was done in collaboration with Maolin Huang, Juliana Muniz Westcott Ribeiro Muniz Westcott and overseen by Catalina Mejia Moreno
Pictures and videos from the Missing Ingredients table event. The climate forum took part in a University wide event to celebrate Earth Day at University of the Arts London. During the day we had a few drop ins, while the table was not in activation, it stood as a record.
The video on the right, is the social media post for Instagram.
Climate forum; missing ingredients table
