Urgent Pedagogies Issue#5: Pluriversality

Lecture by Mayan linguist Fidencio Briseño Chel, “Indigenous Planetary Ways of Knowing” workshop, Mérida, Mexico. Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research, 2019. Photo: Christopher Bratton
 

IASPIS is announcing the Urgent Pedagogies Issue #5: Pluriversality, and invites you to the launch. Together with a number of invited artists, activists and thinkers we introduce its content and reflect on pedagogy, urgencies, settings, methodologies and alliances.

Urgent Pedagogies is a project that focuses on the role of alternative pedagogy and spaces for knowledge production in regards to how socially engaged critical spatial practice may act in relation and response to the urgencies of social justice and equality, contested territories and conditions of conflict.
 
In this launch event, we are introducing Urgent Pedagogies, Issue #5, guest edited by Dalida María Benfield and Christopher Bratton. The editors frame the contributions of the thinkers, artists and activists in Issue 5 as proposals towards liberatory pedagogies that iterate a “pluriverse,” the term offered by Arturo Escobar as a tool for de-centering Western modernity. Their diverse practices cross many worlds, multiple cosmologies and places, while emphasizing the dynamic interconnection between humans, cultures, and earth’s other beings.
 
Participants include contributors Sibonelo Gumede, Joanna Haigood, Katrine Dirckink-Holmfeld, Joseph Kamaru aka KMRU, Margarita Kuleva, Isabelle Massu, EM Mirembe, Bruno Moreschi, Stella Nyanzi, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Gabriel Pereira, introduction and moderation by Dalida María Benfield and Christopher Bratton, welcome by Pelin Tan and Magnus Ericson.