Creative
Universities
Learning, Living and Organizing for Alternative Futures
Creative
Universities
About
I am an anthropologist, educator and academic leader exploring how people create alternative futures through new forms of learning, living and organizing. My work spans higher education, collaborative housing and community-led social change, with a particular interest in creativity, participation and the ways communities build more sustainable, caring and equitable futures.
Creative
Universities
Bring together critique and creativity in university teaching to nurture hope
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Support collaborative housing practitioners through action research
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Create social change through grassroots innovation and participation
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
- Raymond Williams
The book explores the role of creative teaching in university programs that focus on understanding and addressing contemporary social, economic and ecological challenges. Since its publication it has received several strong reviews. I have given book talks at universities and other organizations in the UK, Europe, the US and Australia and am working with several institutions to design courses focusing on global challenges.
Teaching Resources
In this section I share teaching materials related to the activities described in the book. I hope you will experiment with them in your own classrooms.
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Drawing by Raquel Durán
My hope is necessary but it is not enough. Alone, it does not win. But without it, my struggle will be weak and wobbly. We need critical hope the way a fish needs unpolluted water.
- PAOLO FREIRE, Pedagogy of Hope
Contact:
Anke Schwittay
School of Global Studies
University of Sussex