Scholars across disciplines have been questioning whether current knowledge systems can adequately address today’s complex socio-ecological challenges. Formal knowledge systems have driven great progress, yet they often reinforce entrenched ways of thinking that constrain society’s ability to respond innovatively and adaptively to crises. Paradoxically many urgent problems like climate change and biodiversity loss are unintended by-products of the very scientific–technological paradigm that underpins these knowledge systems. This situation highlights a profound onto-epistemological problem: our dominant modes of knowledge may be ill-suited to envision fundamentally new solutions within the very logic that produced such global challenges.
My PhD research is part of an EU Interreg project, FUSION – Facilitating collective climate future envisioning among the youth in the Danish-German border region: Shaping actionable strategies and common initiatives. Through various participatory methods, surveys, and focus groups I investigate how embodied ways of knowing can support new knowledge systems that empower young citizens to develop innovative climate change responses.
FUSION is part of SCC PACA that envisions cultivating vibrant knowledge ecologies and creating an open arena for dialogue, experimentation, co-creation, and learning that brings together researchers, citizens, and communities while resonating within civil society. PACA’s aim is to offer conceptual tools that challenge dominant anthropocentric perspectives and support the growth of post-anthropocentric narratives, addressing the ecological destruction driven by current patterns of production and consumption.
Main supervisor: Patricia Wolf (pawo@sam.sdu.dk)
Co-supervisor: Marianne Harbo Frederiksen (mha@sam.sdu.dk)
Project participants from SDU:
- Patricia Wolf (pawo@sam.sdu.dk)
- Bryan Yazell (yazell@sdu.dk)
- Thomas Kaarsted (thk@bib.sdu.dk)
- Line Laursen Corydon (linel@bib.sdu.dk)
My PhD research is part of an EU Interreg project, FUSION – Facilitating collective climate future envisioning among the youth in the Danish-German border region: Shaping actionable strategies and common initiatives. Through various participatory methods, surveys, and focus groups I investigate how embodied ways of knowing can support new knowledge systems that empower young citizens to develop innovative climate change responses.
FUSION is part of SCC PACA that envisions cultivating vibrant knowledge ecologies and creating an open arena for dialogue, experimentation, co-creation, and learning that brings together researchers, citizens, and communities while resonating within civil society. PACA’s aim is to offer conceptual tools that challenge dominant anthropocentric perspectives and support the growth of post-anthropocentric narratives, addressing the ecological destruction driven by current patterns of production and consumption.
Main supervisor: Patricia Wolf (pawo@sam.sdu.dk)
Co-supervisor: Marianne Harbo Frederiksen (mha@sam.sdu.dk)
Project participants from SDU:
- Patricia Wolf (pawo@sam.sdu.dk)
- Bryan Yazell (yazell@sdu.dk)
- Thomas Kaarsted (thk@bib.sdu.dk)
- Line Laursen Corydon (linel@bib.sdu.dk)