Engaged Opportunity Grants
Ecological Learning Collaboratory for Food, Healing and Spatial Justice
Conference launching a two-year experimental collaboration to explore learning, dissemination and innovation
The new Ecological Learning Collaboratory will launch in spring 2018 in Ithaca during a five-day conference/workshop to consider how to create ecological and just learning spaces that foster social innovation and equity around healthy food, medicines and the right to place. At the core of the effort is the goal of developing pedagogical approaches in the context of forging partnerships that are focused on generating ecological solutions and knowledge. The Collaboratory also seeks to build on innovative pedagogical approaches to cross-cultural learning as an intimate part of both rethinking partnerships and, even more broadly, the role of the American university in global ecological solutions and knowledge building.
Grant category: Other
Topics: Access, Equity and Justice; Education; Energy, Environment and Sustainability; Food and Agriculture; Health, Nutrition and Medicine
The Team
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Rachel Bezner Kerr, Department of Global Development
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Stacey Langwick, Department of Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
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Neema Kudva, Department of City and Regional Planning
College of Architecture, Art and Planning
- Community partner: Pratim Roy, Keystone Foundation
- Community partner: Laifolo Dakishoni, The Soils, Food and Healthy Communities Organization
- Community partner: Training, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation on Gender and AIDS
In the News
JUNE 15, 2018
‘Collaboratory’ shares ideas on food, healing, justice
– Cornell Chronicle
Engaged Opportunity Grants
Supporting a wide range of community-engaged learning projects, from student leadership programs and partnership building to events and conference travel. Open to all faculty and staff.