We have been working hard, as volunteers, for the fourth symposium of our NSU circle, called: Ecology of Transformative Learning Practices With/In A More-than-human World.
This blogpost presents the first line-up of the Wonderfull people who will offer a practice experimentation and discussion topics for this week in Latvia.
We have a few spots available, and as you can read in this blog, we try to make this play-full learning space/week as accessible as possible. We applied for a fund to be able to pay back a travel refund of up to 400 euros (per participant) and we offer two scholarships for BIPOC participants.
About the circle
In this study circle (2025-2027), we nurture a diversity of practices for mutual learning and knowledge creation through conversation and play with the “more than human”. We build a community of practice, where we create ‘playgrounds’, ‘ephemeral ponds’ or spaces of not knowing, which are focused around prompts and themes for especially young scholars to experience and test methods, and examine afterwards through their own frameworks/theories. These spaces aim to instil opportunities to grow epistemological humility and inner pathways toward responsibility. (Source: https://www.nsuweb.org/circle-5-ecology-of-transformative-learning-practices-with-in-a-more-than-human-world/).
The line-up
Two wood wide web scholarships for BIPOC artists, scholars, designers and other care givers based in Europe
If you would like to join, but you do not have the financial means to pay accommodation, all the meals and the programme, please contact Wendy and Vitalija (preferably sooner than later).
I (one of the coordinators) can sponsor the accommodation (bed in double room and and all meals for max 2 people (worth: 700 euros per participant; if you want to bring your children, we can also pay a family room).
However, I would sponsor this… in exchange for 1-2 blogposts (copyrighted under your (pen) name) for http://www.woodwidewebstories.com :
- one blogpost to be published early July (about a place that you choose),
- and if possible, one blogpost to be published in autumn (about the symposium and/or Latvia).
Propose 2 topics for a blogpost connected to the theme Eco+tones and the mission of the circle, by sending your proposal (max 1 page) – also by Sunday May 17th – to wendywwuyts@gmail.com (subject: Eco+tones – wood wide web scholarship for Latvia).
Unfortunately, we can only pay this for people based in Europe, partly because we do not have experience (yet) with supporting visa applications. We organize this all in our free time, as volunteers, and have to be selective in our own learning experiences. But perhaps we get the experience for the summer symposium 2027 (probably in Iceland).
I will help with editing and a few feedback rounds (by email), so if you do not have any blogpost experience, I will do my best to make this an interesting learning experience for you too.
Some examples of blogposts
Last year, I supported a few participants and asked them to write a blogpost. Here are some examples:
- In appley cycles – Tales from the micro orchard
- A micro-fermentation of the poem ”in appley cycles” with other alchemists during the NSU Summer Symposium in Finland (written after the summer symposium)
- Siding with Cedar
- Coming home. (written before the summer symposium)
You can also explore the blogpost of other guest authors, for example:
- Where History Takes Root: Seville’s Gardens
- The Nanche Tree
- An Austrian Oak and a Daydream
- Sacred forests and the role of Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity in the protection of nature
- Trees in Tengrism and Turkish Mythology
This time, I decided to sponsor only BIPOC participants, partly as I want to acknowledge that my whiteness has enabled me access many things that BIPOC people in Europe do not have… and I like to create more possibilities for people who do not have the same privileges that I, a white person from and in North-West-Europe, have.
Some photographs by Vitalija (other coordinator) from the place
She visited Saulkrasti during her Easter holidays and has this on her camera roll:
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