Pedagogies for the Ecozoic: the making of the Indigenous Inga University in the Colombian Amazon
Fri, May 06
|Online Event
L4E & STandD Speaker Series


Time & Location
May 06, 2022, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT
Online Event
About the Event
The Indigenous Biocultural University is a collaborative project engaging in the process of an Amazonian territory becoming university. As a growing biocultural organism, the project involves human and other-than-human minds bridging different knowledge systems. At the heart of research and teaching lies the living cognitive territory and the ways in which this knowledge can be protected and transmitted. New pedagogies are designed to generate place-based knowledge and drive the paradigm shift from an extractive to a generative and imaginative relationship with the territory; hence the university will expand across the territory in a decentralized configuration of learning sites and paths. For more info: www.deveniruniversidad.org SPEAKERS: Doris Waira Jacanamijoy: Inga artist, coordinator of the Inga education team, co-leader of the Indigenous Inga University, founding member of the Yachaikury school in Caquetá, Colombia. Taita Hernando Chindoy Chindoy: Since 2017, Hernando has been the legal representative of the Territorial Entity AWAI of the…