Our workshop is an invitation to reflect, rethink, and regroup. It offers the opportunity to engage in critical conversations on building relationships for social justice and reflect on doing decolonising work in the university. We will explore what anchoring social justice looks like through rethinking our relationships and key dynamics that shape them. Our relationships as students and staff are at the heart of our higher education journeys. The current global context of rising tension and inequalities and political turmoil, as well as technological trends such as the increased use of artificial intelligence, have irrevocably changed how we experience academia. In this workshop, we consider how coloniality may be present in our higher education spaces today, and how students and staff can build relationships that centre social justice. Understanding that these are complex and challenging processes, we offer this space as a step to reflect on key questions and elements that are part of your own journeys toward creating decolonial educational spaces.
Throughout the workshop, we invite you to create a paper zine to keep hold of the key questions, concepts, ideas, or feelings that you might think of or experience during the workshop. We also invite you to contribute to a collective virtual zine on Padlet which we will put together from your virtual entries and circulate after the workshop. We will provide all instructions on how to create a zine, all you need to have ready is an A4 paper, some coloured pens or pencils or stickers if you like.
Session duration: 90 minutes
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This session will be recorded and shared with participants.
