Beyond Learning

Beyond Learning

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Beyond Learning episodes

  • Making Meaning
    “The future belongs to all of us,” says Maarten Okkersen at the Museon Omniversum in the Hague.
    We talk about how museums can help make sense of the changing world and encourage agency and empathy. We also discuss what interactivity really means, and why sometimes it’s useful to lose the technology.
    In the meantime, we visit the museum’s One Planet exhibition, where we find out what our phones are made of and try to save the coral reef.
    30 min
  • Perfect Imperfections
    What do you see behind a pomegranate?
    Clémence Garnier, a Brussels-based illustrator who created the visuals for our podcast, walks us through the steps of her art projects.
    As we pick flowers in her local park and take a look into her workspace, Clémence tells us how she learned to draw as an adult, and what doing life drawings taught her about body image.
    She also shares the many functions of a walk-in closet, how you can turn curcuma into stars – and why her work is a bit like magic. (We may or may not end up talking about witches.)
    28 min
  • Forever Autonomous
    How do we learn from the past to make it to the future? Wojciech Matejko from the Open Jazdów Partnership shows us around a settlement in Warsaw, Poland which has a unique history, and today houses families and NGOs. He shares a story of activism, community and adult learning, featuring Soviet imperialism, Finnish wooden houses, Chinese hens, and Japanese dance theatre.
    29 min

About Beyond Learning

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On Beyond Learning, we talk to people who are trying to imagine a more sustainable future, and putting their ideas into practice. In the second season, we take a journey to Central and Eastern Europe to explore how learning can foster a sense of belonging in a changing world. From Vienna to Budapest, Zagreb, Athens and Belgrade, we meet with adult learners, educators, but also filmmakers, researchers, migrant and feminist collectives who put community-building at the centre of their work. We record our conversations at adult learning centres and art performances; in cafes, urban gardens and other community spaces where learning happens and new identities are created.