Haumea Ecoversity

Tue, 29/04/2025 09:00 – 17:00

Venue: HG20, Alice Reeves Building (formerly the Nursing and Human Sciences Building), DCU Glasnevin Campus

Presenting at the DCU 2025 Conference

As my work over the past five years at Haumea Ecoversity focuses on developing holistic, transformative ecoliteracy for creative professionals, I am delighted to be presenting an overview for the 2025 Institute for Climate and Society Annual Conference at Dublin City University (DCU) on the theme: ‘Dispatches from a changing climate: Engaging society through activism, storytelling and the arts‘.

At Haumea Ecoversity, we help professional creatives cultivate an ecological worldview and corresponding holistic values so they can foster inclusive, ecoliterate conversations and activate stories for change—with and for their communities and audiences. At its core, our peer-to-peer work supports creatives, researchers, and cultural programmers in cultivating a systems-based ecological worldview and communicating those values meaningfully in their practice, teaching, programming, or cultural policy.

By nurturing ecological consciousness and conscience, creatives—and the communities they engage—develop the ecoliteracy and agency needed to imagine and shape more life-sustaining narratives and futures.

In my presentations, I often briefly share how my ecoliteracy and agency for new ecological forest policy arose from my ongoing ecological creative practice The Hollywood Forest Story – (begun in 2008) which was the basis for my doctoral review of pioneering ecological (eco-social) art practices. 

Conference Information

Please join the Institute for Climate and Society’s annual one-day conference to explore the role of activism, storytelling and the arts in responding to the climate crisis.

The keynote speaker is Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, who will deliver a report to the UN General Assembly this autumn on the challenges faced by human rights defenders working in the context of climate change and a just transition.

The conference will feature a range of speakers from the arts, the media and academia. Please see the conference programme here.

The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required (Only a few tickets left)

Tue, 29/04/2025 – 09:00 to Tue, 29/04/2025 – 17:00

Venue: HG20, Alice Reeves Building (formerly the Nursing and Human Sciences Building), DCU Glasnevin Campus

I will be joining this panel at 2pm with:
Dr Eileen Hutton, Artist and Head of Art & Ecology at Burren College of Art

Alan James Burns, Artist, curator and festival maker  

Dr Cathy Fitzgerald, Ecological Artist, Ecoliteracy & Earth Charter – ESD Educator at Haumea Ecoversity

Rebecca Wilson, Science Week Lead at Research Ireland

Dr Trish Morgan, Assistant Professor, DCU School of Communications

Chair: Dr Pádraig Murphy, Associate Professor, DCU School of Communications 

Target Audience: All Welcome

Is registration required? Yes

Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/dispatches-from-a-changing-climate-tickets-1298921903379?aff=oddtdtcreator

My thanks to Dr Padriag Murphy for inviting me to DCU many years ago at the start of my doctoral journey, and for reaching out to me again.