EP4 Speculative Learning Futures with Felicitas Macgilchrist

In this episode, George and I chat with Felicitas Macgilchrist about the future of education. It’s a free ranging conversation, in which we go deep into design and the ethics of design in education. We talk about futures in which slowness is centred, considering how we might make better space for ourselves and each other, and how those of us with privilege can promote the already incredible futures work happening in places around the world today. We also get into the thinking about what the metaphor of rewilding can tell us about digital education today and into the future, and how awesome science fiction is. 

Learn more about Felicitas at her academic page: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/555243.html

Visit her work at: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=LO64kxoAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Content mentions: 

Felicitas’s article on rewilding education: https://www.oneducation.net/no-12_december-2021/rewilding-technology/

Dillon, S. & Schaffer-Goddard, J. (2023).What AI researchers read: the role of literature in artificial intelligence research. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 48(1), 15-42, DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2022.2079214

Tsing, A. (2015). The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press. 

Tsing, A. (2017). Arts of living on a damaged planet. University of Minnesota Press. 

Tuck, E. & Yang, K.W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, education & society, 1(1). https://clas.osu.edu/sites/clas.osu.edu/files/Tuck%20and%20Yang%202012%20Decolonization%20is%20not%20a%20metaphor.pdf

Design justice network: https://designjustice.org

Authors mentioned: Nnedi Okorafor, Octavia Butler, Martha Wells, Becky Chambers