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VIRTUAL EVENT: Beauty in the darkness: aesthetic education in the ecological crisis
13 January 2021, 5:30 pm–7:00 pm
In this webinar, Dr Ramsey Affifi reflects on experiences and engagements with art to help understand the possibilities and power in the beauty of vulnerable things and actions towards them.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Alison Brady
Engaging beauty can orient mind, heart and action in this era of ecological destruction by inviting participation in actions towards vulnerable things and the beauty they invoke.
Dr Affifi suggests it is better suited to engage the ecological crisis than appealing to emotions such as hope or relying on prevalent ethical approaches.
He considers the transformative role aesthetics could play in reimagining school curricula and pedagogy aimed at sustainability.
Speaker
- Dr Ramsey Affifi, Lecturer in Science (Biology) Education and Environmental Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.
Links
- Tweet with #philofed
- Philosophy at the Institute of Education
- Department of Education, Practice and Society
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