Worlding

Worlding

A generative, agentic, and interspecies notion, ‘worlding’ is a term that Donna Haraway often uses and defines as ‘making worlds together’ or the co-making of worlds. Inspired by the question ‘what kinds of worlds are needed at this time of ecological crises?’, we propose that education needs to remake worlds that recognise that: 

·   we (humans) are part of the environment, not separate from it, and like all other beings are vulnerable within it;  

·   we are not the only makers and shapers of our ‘one world’, rather, multiple worlds are made and remade with multiple non-human others; 

·   we have a lot to learn from noticing what is already going on in the worlds around us; 

·   we inherit worlds already damaged in the name of human progress and development, e.g. by colonisation and extractive capitalism;  

·   we share a responsibility to recuperate these damaged worlds to ensure that they can sustain life for future generations.