Micro-Care: Small Acts of Resilience for Living within the Earth’s Caring Capacity
2020
2020
Rearched and facilited with with Laura Kozak, Avi Farber, and Julie
Van Oyen, ECU Research, 2020-2021.
In April of 2020, while we and the world scrambled to come to terms with a global pandemic, a small group of us assembled to respond to a Policy Horizons Canada report called The Next Generation of Emerging Global Challenges: Living within the Earth’s Carrying Capacity. This project began from a place of searching for optimism and agency in the shadow of massive and systemic forces. We documented and discussed modest actions of resilience and care for ourselves, each other and the systems surrounding us, our weekly discussions themselves became a typology of care through the tumultuous spring of 2020. Compiling our observations, actions and conversation, the Micro-Care publication holds our divergent but intersecting reflections on care, beginning from the smallest seed of ourselves. Through remaining humble relative to the global challenges laid out in the Policy Horizons Canada report, we hope our work can create a container for complex and meaningful interactions to spill from.
Digital publication featured in Wendy’s Subway x Libby Leshgold Gallery Archive of Mutual Care and Action, Publishing the Present, 2020.
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Van Oyen, ECU Research, 2020-2021.
In April of 2020, while we and the world scrambled to come to terms with a global pandemic, a small group of us assembled to respond to a Policy Horizons Canada report called The Next Generation of Emerging Global Challenges: Living within the Earth’s Carrying Capacity. This project began from a place of searching for optimism and agency in the shadow of massive and systemic forces. We documented and discussed modest actions of resilience and care for ourselves, each other and the systems surrounding us, our weekly discussions themselves became a typology of care through the tumultuous spring of 2020. Compiling our observations, actions and conversation, the Micro-Care publication holds our divergent but intersecting reflections on care, beginning from the smallest seed of ourselves. Through remaining humble relative to the global challenges laid out in the Policy Horizons Canada report, we hope our work can create a container for complex and meaningful interactions to spill from.
Digital publication featured in Wendy’s Subway x Libby Leshgold Gallery Archive of Mutual Care and Action, Publishing the Present, 2020.
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