The Koanga Institute is holding a Permaculture Design Course in April 2011.(April 9-22) » Read more

Tutors: Bob Corker, Kay Baxter, Nathan Foote, Koanga Institute Staff
Location: Koanga Institute, Kotare Raod, Wairoa.
Price: $1700 includes Food and Basic Accomodation (tents)
Date: April 10 - 22,  2011 » Read more

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SCANZ 2011: ECO SAPIENS — HUI/SYMPOSIUM INFORMATION
HOW CAN WE RE-IMAGINE OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH NATURE?

Dates: 14-16th of January, 2011
Location: Owae Marae, Waitara, Taranaki
Topic Areas: See summary here
Registration: See costs & register here

TOPICAL STATEMENT

As one of the early generations of the anthropocene — we are only just becoming aware of the recent effects of our species on the biosphere. Yet we find ourselves needing to adapt — and fast. A re-invention of ourselves as a beneficial (or at least benign) part of local and global complex ecologies is now required in order to regenerate these systems on which we depend.

By bringing together ideas and interventions from a variety of disciplines and understandings, can we address these complex issues more effectively? And what are the creative, inventive and inspiring toolkits that might help assist such a large-scale re-imagining of our cultural narratives we have of ourselves as a species?

In this event we seek to explore the creative spaces between cultures, ecologies, sciences, creative practises, psychology and technologies. In sharing our understandings, explorations and discoveries we hope to inspire ourselves to momentary fluidities of perception that might prove useful in nudging our own hardened cultural paradigms and silos of specialisation. » Read more