How to Listen #2: Co-shaping an exchange of narratives and learning together.

Registration is free and you are welcome to attend all three conversations or any of your own choosing. Please note, you only need to register once.

REGISTER HERE FOR THE ZOOM LINKhttp://doit.medfarm.uu.se/kurt20747

In this second session of The Living Library we will be exploring the dynamic of listening as a tool for transformation, raising questions such as:

• What can a practice of listening look like?
• From what position is it possible to be an involved listener?
• What happens when you put the art of listening in focus of dialogue and collaboration?
• How can we learn about listening from different contexts and practices?
• What is essential in order to support an environment where listening is possible?
• How can we actively listen and co-shape an exchange of narratives?

The Living Library is a collaboration between the following organisations: Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University, Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University,  Uppsala konstmuseum and Mistra Environmental Communication 

You can read more about contributors and the background to The Living Library below and on our website here. Find the Facebook event here 

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Guests

Michele-Lee Moore | Researcher  | Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University 

Michele-Lee Moore’s research focus is on social innovations and transformations. She seeks to build and mobilize knowledge about social innovations – ones that allow us to transform and build positive paths towards social-ecological-cultural resilience. Primarily, she has focused on topics of transnational and local water governance, social innovation, and transformation. Beyond her water governance research, she also collaborates with scholars to examine case studies in other domains to gain insights on social innovation and transformation. Throughout this work, Moore remains deeply committed to growing her own knowledge about decolonization, two-eyed seeing methodologies, and developing her capacity for understanding and implementing, both truth and reconciliation.

Learn more about Michele-Lee and her work here:

• SRC Profile
• Talk  on the perils and promises of transformative change

Heralding from São Paulo, Brazil, Maria Thereza Alves has worked and exhibited internationally since the 1980s, creating a body of work investigating the histories and circumstances of particular localities to give witness to silenced histories. Her projects are researched-based and develop out of her interactions with the physical and social environments of the places she lives, or visits for exhibitions and residencies. These projects begin in response to local needs and proceed through a process of dialogue that is often facilitated between material and environmental realities and social circumstances. While aware of Western binaries between nature and culture, art and politics, or art and daily life, she deliberately refuses to acknowledge them in her practice. She chooses instead to work with people in communities as equals through relational practices of collaboration that require constant movement across all of these boundaries.

Learn more about Maria and her work here:

• Maria’s page

Johannes Heldén is a visual artist, writer and musician. His interdisciplinary practice deals with poetry, ecology, artificial intelligence, sentience, interspecies communication and narrative structures. Recent projects include Astroecology which was published simultaneously in three languages, made into an interdisciplinary performance at The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and a digital artwork published by Bonniers Konsthall, and New New Hampshire & Clouds (for the Momentum biennial, hybrid installation/publication). He has published four music albums, recently Takträdgårdar (OEI) and System (Irrlicht), and seven digital works of poetry and visual art.

Learn more about Johannes and his work here:

• Johannes’ page

Facilitator 

Rebecca Vinthagen | Researcher and Facilitator 

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Library Shelf

The Civil Conversations Project

David Bohm on Dialogue

Susan Bickford on The Dissonance of Democracy: Listening, Conflict and Citizenship