Past Events
DARE Seminar 7
Critical Forest Studies: Regenerative Education in Sentient Worlds
Join us for a DARE talk by Dr. David Rousell, Associate Professor of Regenerative Education at RMIT, Melbourne.
David鈥檚 research focuses on creatively reshaping the education and cultural sectors in response to the urgency of climate action. His collaborative work with diverse educational communities has established an international evidence base for creative, transdisciplinary, and climate-responsive education across formal and informal learning contexts. His recent projects re-imagine the learning infrastructures of cities in response to the climate and biodiversity crisis, ubiquitous digitisation, and the urgencies of decolonising public institutions. This work has brought public attention to the diverse impacts of planetary changes in the lives of children, young people, and communities through the co-production of films, installations, exhibitions, alternative curriculum frameworks, and digital platforms in Australia and internationally.
Presenter Bio:
Dr. David Rousell teaches and researches across education, art and design, philosophy, geography, and cultural studies. He is a Fellow of the Regenerative Futures Institute and a core member of the Centre for Urban Research and the Digital Ethnography Research Centre. He is also founding convener of the Local Alternatives research platform and Critical Forest Studies Collaboratory.
For the past decade, David鈥檚 collaborative research has led to the development of new theoretical and methodological approaches at the nexus of environmental philosophy (ontology, ethics, aesthetics, politics), environmental education (pedagogy, curriculum, design), and environmental art and design (history, theory, practice). Through research and teaching value the situated knowledges and experiences of educational communities, his work has led to significant social impact through co-designed transformations of schools, universities, galleries and museums, urban and regional municipalities, businesses, and cultural organisations.
David has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and books and 8 edited special issues across a range of fields, including environmental education, cultural geography, ecological philosophy, environmental art, architecture, and design, childhood and youth studies, decolonial studies, multispecies inquiry, and the posthumanities.
His books include Immersive Cartography and Post-Qualitative Inquiry (Routledge, 2021), Doing Rebellious Research (Brill, 2022, with Pamela Burnard, Elizabeth Mackinlay, and Tatjana Drogovic), Posthuman Research Playspaces: Climate Child Imaginaries (Routledge, 2023, with Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles), and Process and Place: A field guide to speculative research (Routledge, in press, with Nina Williams and Tara Elisabeth Jeyasingh).
David鈥檚 research has attracted over $2.5 million in national and international research funding.
Date/Time
Monday, October 26
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Place
EDB 8620.1, 麻豆视频Burnaby campus
(Online with Zoom is optional)
DARE Seminar 6
Unschooled Futures: Pluriversal Speculations
Join us to celebrate the launch of , an edited collection that asks what becomes possible when education is unsettled from its familiar institutional, disciplinary, and epistemological foundations. Bringing together contributors from anthropology, architecture, mathematics, biology, Indigenous studies, art, philosophy, and literature, the book explores forms of learning that exceed the inherited boundaries of schooling and challenge its colonial, anthropocentric, and disciplinary logics. Across a series of theoretical, speculative, artistic and experimental interventions, contributors consider what it might mean to undiscipline education and make room for pluriversal, indeterminate, and otherwise forms of learning. A number of the volume鈥檚 chapter authors will join us to mark the publication, share reflections on their contributions, and open a conversation about the possibilities the collection brings into view.
Presenters
- Petra Mikulan
- Nathalie Sinclair
- David S. Moore
- Ayush Mukherjee
- Kelly Paton
- Scott F. Gilbert
- Adam Rudder
- Daniel Gallardo
- jessie beier
- Suzanne Scheld
Date/Time
Wednesday, October 7
Time: 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Place
EDB 8620.1, 麻豆视频Burnaby campus
(Online with Zoom is optional)
DARE Seminar 5
A Designer鈥檚 Journey of Lifelong Learning
Please join us for a casual lunch and talk by Dr. Iain Macdonald, entitled 鈥�A Designer鈥檚 Journey of Lifelong Learning鈥�. Iain's scholarship focuses on design pedagogy, art practice, and education in art and design. He has come to Coast Salish territories to retrace the steps of his great-uncle, artist who spent nearly two years in Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) territories, upon the encouragement of Emily Carr.
Presenter:
Dr. Iain Macdonald is Associate Professor and Head of Department of Design Innovation at Mynooth University (Ireland). He has over 25 years of previous creative industry experience as a motion graphic designer at the BBC, and as a commercials director in London, before becoming a Design academic with posts at Ravensbourne University, Edinburgh Napier University and London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.
His current research activity is focused on HPV vaccine awareness using STEAM workshops in post-primary settings, and a book on the BBC Motion Graphics Archive. Recent grant funded research projects include Irish Research Council (2021) and Science Foundation Ireland (2023) working with the Irish Cancer Society. His research has used film and photography examining design pedagogy, art practice and community co-design in the UK, Ireland and further afield in Mozambique.
He is Vice President of the National Society for Education in Art & Design (NSEAD) and is on the Editorial Committee for the International Journal of Art and Design Education.
Date/Time
Friday, October 2
Time: Talk starts at 12pm. Come any time after 11:30 for lunch.
Place
EDB 8620.1, 麻豆视频Burnaby campus
(Online with Zoom is optional)
DARE Seminar 4
Innovating Science and Chemistry Education Curricula by Integrating Indigenous Knowledge
In this DARE talk, Dr. Robby Zidny will explore how Indigenous Knowledge can be integrated into science and chemistry education to make learning more culturally relevant, meaningful, and responsive to sustainability challenges. Drawing on research with the Baduy community in Indonesia, the presentation will discuss how local knowledge, cultural practices, and perspectives on environmental conservation can be reconstructed as contexts for science learning. The presentation will also highlight the potential of Indigenous Knowledge to promote Education for Sustainable Development, systems thinking, and intercultural understanding, and will reflect on challenges and future directions for curriculum innovation and collaboration with Indigenous communities.
Presenter:
Dr. Robby Zidny is an associate professor at Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa (UNTIRTA), Indonesia. He is a recipient of the SEAMEO-Jasper Research Award 2024/2025 and the Best Poster Presenter award at a Chemistry Education Conference held by ACS-IUPAC in Thailand. His research focuses on science and chemistry education, curriculum innovation, and education for sustainability. He has led research and capacity-building projects in science education, including the PRESS Project (Promoting Relevant Education in Science for Sustainability) and a project on smartphone-based spectroscopy for microplastic detection and citizen science.
Date/Time
Thursday, October 1
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Place
EDB 7509, 麻豆视频Burnaby campus
(Online with Zoom is optional)
2026 DARE Seminar 3
Education in a Time of Metacrisis
What kind of education becomes possible when progress, growth, and human control can no longer be taken for granted? This DARE research seminar brings together scholars from the Faculty of Education to explore how education might respond to a world shaped by ecological instability, colonial legacies, ethical uncertainty, and the limits of modern assumptions about progress. The event also celebrates the publication of their recent contributions to the special issue , highlighting the Faculty鈥檚 ongoing engagement with urgent educational, ecological, and social questions. At a time when familiar educational narratives no longer feel sufficient, this seminar invites deeper reflection on how education may be reimagined through questions of relationship, responsibility, agency, and collective futures. Rather than offering simple answers, the session opens a space for thoughtful engagement with the challenges and possibilities of education in a changing world. Join us for an important conversation on what education might become, and on how we might begin to imagine more just, relational, and sustainable futures together.
Moderator:
- Dr. Gillian Judson
Presenters:
- Dr. Cary Campbell
- Dr. Mark Fettes
- Dr. Cristiano Barbosa de Moura
- Dr. Sean Blenkinsop
- Thomas Hoeller
- Marion Benkaiouche
Date/Time
Wednesday, June 10
1:30 鈥� 3:00 p.m. PST
Hybrid Event
- In person:
麻豆视频Burnaby Campus
Education building 7610 - Zoom:
Link will be sent to registered participants 24 hours in advance.
2026 DARE Seminar 2
Narrative Approaches to Educational Research
You are invited to join a DARE roundtable discussion on narrative approaches to educational research. This roundtable features three distinct ways of utilizing narrative methods to gain deeper insights into the experiences of teachers and students. Instead of formal presentations, we will share some finished work, and some 鈥渨ork in progress.鈥� We hope you will join us for an engaging conversation and collaborative brainstorming!
Presenters
- Gabriely Lolli de Oliveira
(Re)Discovering Myself in the Scenes: The Construction of Teaching Personality Through Self-Narratives - Hadar Hamid
Educational Resilience: Navigation of Higher Education Access Among Resettled Students with Experiences of Forced Displacement - Dr. Robyn Ilten-Gee
Digital Racial Literacies: Exploring Interactive Mosaics through Narrative Methods
Date/Time
Tuesday, May 19
1:00 鈥� 2:15 p.m. PST
Hybrid Event
2026 DARE Seminar 1
Education in a Time of Social and Environmental Unravelling
Come celebrate the release of faculty member Cary Campbell's new book,
This book argues that the root of education鈥檚 failure to address the complex problems of climate change lies in the stories we tell. At once too complex, too simplistic, and overly focused on communicating and accumulating scientific facts, the stories we tell about climate change often reduce the problem to singular issues, such as CO2 emissions, while advocating out-of-this-world technofixes. Against this challenge, the term 鈥減olycrisis鈥� has emerged to describe the interconnected environmental and social crises we are confronting in the 21st century. The polycrisis encompasses much more than catch-all terms such as climate change and global warming, connecting issues as diverse as biodiversity and habitat loss, water and food scarcity, pollution, and resource depletion, as well as growing economic and social precarity. Through a series of essays and interviews with scholars, scientists, artists, and activists, this volume seeks to articulate existential and educational responses and interventions to the polycrisis. The author presents a terrestrial vision for critical eco-pedagogy, arguing that educational freedom in this time is not unlimited or unbounded, but rather cultivated through an engagement with limits and limitations鈥攎ost fundamentally, the limits of a planet with limited resources and carrying capacity.
Presenters
- Marion Benkaiouche
- Dr. Tim Lilburn
- Dr. Michael Ling
- Dr. William Pinar
- Dr. William Rees
- Dr. Charles Scott
- Dr. Zuzana Vasko
Date/Time
Friday, May 8
1:00 鈥� 3:00 p.m. PST
Hybrid Event
- In person:
麻豆视频Burnaby Campus
Education building 7610 - Zoom:
Link will be sent to registered participants 24 hours in advance.