Artfulness and the playground, two words you do not normally associate with the serious world of organisational life. I am going to offer two invitations, but before I do let me explain. Firstly, artfulness. Here art is both an artefact, for example the painting, piece of music or even the benefits of a well-managed project, […]
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Adult Development – a constructivist non linear spiral  Reflection on experience lies at the heart of action research. And of a life well lived. Being able to make meaning from the experiences of our life enriches us and improves our action taking. There is also practical benefit in understanding the worldview/culture of our context […]
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Connecting gender, vibrancy and #MeToo for sustainability?! Interested in how new gender issues play into our co-creating a more sustainable world? Or how to practice a new kind of “power-with” between women and men after millennia of “power-over”? We believe having these conversations help create a more sustainable world. We […]
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Our beautiful Earth is becoming inhospitable to us. How should educators, researchers, and knowledge creators respond to this existential threat?By accepting an unpalatable truth: our mainstream approach to learning, education, and research is actively co-producing the very opposite of what we need at this time of unsustainability. Read more about the timely call to ART […]
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Timothy Pyrch is professor emeritus of the University of Calgary, Canada. He helped organize action researchers from around the world at the first academic congress in 1989. His work preserves indigenous ways of knowing the world, emphasizing story-telling. Timothy explains that in this time of social-ecological transition, we need insights that can disrupt the dominant […]
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