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TEACHING COMMUNITY I MEET THE ARTIST: LERNA BABIKYANLerna Babikyan is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, and writer d...
13/07/2026

TEACHING COMMUNITY I MEET THE ARTIST: LERNA BABIKYAN

Lerna Babikyan is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, and writer dedicated to the transformative power of movement and creativity. With a background in dance, adult education, dance pedagogy, and ecology, her artistic and pedagogic practice explores the intersections of identity, nature, language, indigenous cultures, and memory through somatic research and storytelling. Lerna continues to work with diverse learning communities across various age groups, weaving together ecological awareness and the healing nature of embodied arts via presentations and workshops in various local and international platforms.

Lerna will be leading 4 dance movement workshops for children aged 7-9 and their carers during the summer holidays. Join us at Dartington village hall on Wednesday 29th July, 4th, 12th & 19th August, 10:30am - 12pm

You must sign up to participate - follow this link forms.gle/JsqG8hjqCKghUTBg8 or head to the link in our bio

These workshops form part of Teaching Community: a flagship project for Radical Ecology. Through it, we begin to explore how our beliefs in the worldmaking possibilities of art, can be translated into tangible methods and curricula for art education - methods we intend, in due course, to share as an open source tool kit.

TEACHING COMMUNITY I MEET THE ARTIST: FATIMA ALAIWATFatima’s work is guided by a desire to listen and relate with the mo...
08/07/2026

TEACHING COMMUNITY I MEET THE ARTIST: FATIMA ALAIWAT

Fatima’s work is guided by a desire to listen and relate with the more-than-human world in sensuous and intimate ways, with a particular interest in container technologies and poetics within the everyday. Her research explores how and what creative forms hold and brings to light complex threads of geopolitical, environmental, cultural and systemic entanglements. In doing so she questions how this can recognise unseen work, create the conditions for it to take place and support its continuation. Fatima works with cycles over time, where varied outputs continuously emerge. This has previously taken the form of working sensorially (e.g. with scent) which has led to writing, installations, food events and workshops.

You can join her in 2 scent workshops for adults, hosted at the Radical Ecology studio, on Thursday 23rd and Tuesday 28th July, from 11am to 2pm.

These workshops form part of Teaching Community: a flagship project for Radical Ecology. Through it, we begin to explore how our beliefs in the worldmaking possibilities of art, can be translated into tangible methods and curricula for art education - methods we intend, in due course, to share as an open source tool kit.

You can sign up for Fatima's workshops here: forms.gle/gQwiVEqeQon9BezCA or through the link in our bio

(all participants are required to sign up before attending)

We’re excited to launch Teaching Community, a summer creative workshop programme based in our Dartington studio, designe...
17/06/2026

We’re excited to launch Teaching Community, a summer creative workshop programme based in our Dartington studio, designed and led by a group of 4 diverse artist-educators. Over the course of July and August, we’re offering free art clubs exploring making, performance, dance and scent. The programme is guided by abolitionist practice - rooted in peer exchange and collective exploration - creating space for participants to use art as a tool for imagining new social possibilities.

Teaching Community is a flagship project for Radical Ecology. Through it, we begin to explore how our beliefs in the worldmaking possibilities of art, can be translated into tangible methods and curricula for art education - methods we intend, in due course, to share as an open-source toolkit.

This summer you’ll have the opportunity to journey with

Helena Lyons
Wowhaus
Art clubs for children aged 7-9 & their carers
Dates & Times: Monday 6th, 13th & 20th July, 3:30 - 5:30pm
Location : Radical Ecology Studio

Riham Isaac
Where Do We Belong
Performance open laboratory for Adults
Dates & Times: Thursday 9th & Friday 10th July, 11am - 2pm
Location : Radical Ecology Studio

Fatima Alaiwait
The Living Scentscape
Scent workshop for Adults
Dates & Times: Thursday 23rd & Tuesday 28th July, 11am - 2pm
Location : Radical Ecology Studio

Lerna Babikyan
Dancing Together
Dance movement for children aged 7 - 9 & their carers
Dates & Times: Wednesday 29th July, 4th, 12th & 19th August, 10:30am - 12pm
Location : Dartington Village Hall

You must sign up to attend the workshops! For more information and links to sign up - follow the link in our bio

6-8pm, 24th June at IAS Common Ground, UCL.Wedding Songs & Agit Prop is an evening of performance, reading, reflection a...
11/06/2026

6-8pm, 24th June at IAS Common Ground, UCL.

Wedding Songs & Agit Prop is an evening of performance, reading, reflection and collective encounter bringing together artists, writers, musicians and activists whose work engages questions of racial justice, environmental justice, memory, displacement and repair.

Presented by Radical Ecology as part of London Climate Action Week, the event takes its title from two traditions that are rarely brought together: the Wedding Song as a practice of cultural continuity, kinship and celebration, and Agit Prop as a form of artistic intervention shaped by political struggle. Between these poles, the evening opens a shared space for considering how communities endure, adapt and imagine futures amid the overlapping crises of the 2020s.

At the heart of the programme is a participatory performance led by transdisciplinary artist Joshua Woolford, creating an environment for listening, contemplation and exchange. The title’s invocation of “Wedding Songs” draws inspiration from the work of Fozia Ismail, whose research into Somali nomadic traditions foregrounds forms of cultural inheritance that persist despite the disruptions of war, migration and climate breakdown. Her work offers a reminder that ecological crisis is not only a matter of environmental change but also of the fragile continuities of culture, memory and belonging.

The evening also features a reading by the acclaimed novelist, playwright and screenwriter Courttia Newland from his forthcoming essay collection, The Art of Opposition, a meditation on creativity, resistance and the role of the artist in troubled times. Alongside this, the poet and curator Mahmoud Al-Shaer shares work written in the context of genocide and exile from Gaza. Curated by Radical Ecology Director, Ashish Ghadiali, featured participants also include Yasmin Ahammad, Hope Chilokoa-Mullen (participant & producer), Emily Churchill Zaraa, Angela Camacho, Hunter Smith, Iman Datoo, Tsitsi Mareika Chirikure and Jelena Sofronijevic.

You are warmly invited to come into this space just as you are and to participate in an evening shaped by generosity, conversation and collective imagination.

Link in bio.

Palestinian musician and sound artist Dirar Kalash has emerged as one of the most vital contemporary voices working acro...
23/05/2026

Palestinian musician and sound artist Dirar Kalash has emerged as one of the most vital contemporary voices working across sound, politics and anti-colonial thought.

Refusing the separation of aesthetics from material struggle, Kalash insists that music-making is never simply “art”, expression or cultural production, but a political practice inseparable from questions of power, violence, solidarity, memory and liberation.

At a time when Palestine is enduring ongoing genocide, this 3-day immersive workshop at the Radical Ecology Studio in Dartington invites participants to investigate the relationships between sound, silence, politics, time and space through listening, mapping, discussion and collective reflection.

Together we will explore questions of solidarity, activism and everyday practice — from the writing of the Nakba to the ongoing transformation of time and space under genocide — not from a detached theoretical position, but from a conscious and committed one.

Day 1 — Politics of Sound
Day 2 — Sound and Time
Day 3 — Sound and Space

19–21 June 2026
Webbers Yard, Dartington, South Devon

For artists, organisers, researchers, musicians, activists and multidisciplinary practitioners.

Concessions + limited bursaries available.
Bursary deadline: 1 June.

Tickets/info via link in bio.

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SOLSTICE WEEKEND: THE POLITICS OF SOUND AND TIME AND SPACE AND PALESTINEThree days with Dirar Kalash at the Radical Ecol...
21/05/2026

SOLSTICE WEEKEND: THE POLITICS OF SOUND AND TIME AND SPACE AND PALESTINE

Three days with Dirar Kalash at the Radical Ecology Studio, Dartington.

Palestinian musician, researcher and sound thinker Dirar Kalash approaches music not as art or aesthetic expression, but as a political practice inseparable from struggle, memory, solidarity and liberation.

At a time when Palestine is enduring ongoing genocide, this immersive workshop invites participants to collectively investigate the relationships between sound, silence, politics, time and space through listening, mapping, discussion and shared reflection.

Day 1 — Politics of Sound
Day 2 — Sound and Time
Day 3 — Sound and Space

19–21 June 2026
Webbers Yard, Dartington, South Devon

For multidisciplinary practitioners, organisers, artists, musicians, researchers and activists interested in sound as a site of political inquiry and collective practice.

Limited bursaries available.

Tickets + info via the link in bio.

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DISOBEDIENT SCIENCE | MEET THE CURATOR: IMAN DATOOWe are really looking forward to welcoming you to Disobedient Science ...
06/05/2026

DISOBEDIENT SCIENCE | MEET THE CURATOR: IMAN DATOO

We are really looking forward to welcoming you to Disobedient Science tomorrow, a 2-day gathering .house and , curated by and hosted by in partnership with UCL, LAHP and Afterall Research Centre.

Iman Datoo is an artist and researcher based in Cornwall. She is currently undertaking an LAHP funded practice-led PhD between UCL’s Slade School of Fine Art and Bartlett School of Architecture, and serves as Head of Research and Community at Radical Ecology. At the centre of Iman’s work is “kinnomics”, a transitional framework that shifts thinking away from an economics of commodification toward making kin with those rendered inert, inanimate, or marginal - whether pathologised soils in mines, invasive species in plantations, colonised specimens in botanical gardens, or artefacts held in museum collections. Through this lens, she invites an understanding of worlds as relative to one another, and foregrounds an intimate planetary existence in which the human is never at the centre but always embroiled in relation. In 2025, she was the Stonecroft Art in Residence with Agnes Etherington Arts Centre and Queen’s University Biological Field Station in Ontario, Canada, and a recipient of the Two Together Residency with Porthmeor Studios and the Freelands Foundation. Her debut solo exhibition Kinnomics opened at the Agnes Etherington Arts Centre in 2025. Recent works include A 100 Year Care Plan (2025), Movement is Natural (2024), A Map of Southcombe Gardens (2024), Kinnomic Botany (2023) and Soil brain-Gut brain (2023).

The programme opens pathways for relational practices in art and activism that move beyond inherited scripts of colonial knowledge production and scientific rationalism, revealing instead how thinking and making are never disembodied, and how lived time and space are touched by scales both intimate and immense: geologic, historic, microscopic and planetary.

Full programme details via link in bio.

DISOBEDIENT SCIENCE | MEET THE ARTIST: ISWANTO HARTONO - RUANGRUPAIswanto Hartono and Afterall are joining us for Disobe...
05/05/2026

DISOBEDIENT SCIENCE | MEET THE ARTIST: ISWANTO HARTONO - RUANGRUPA

Iswanto Hartono and Afterall are joining us for Disobedient Science to mark the launch of a new publication 'How to Pin Down Smoke: ruangrupa since 2000'.

Iswanto Hartono is an artist, curator, architect and exhibition designer whose work explores the intersection of spatial practice, ecology and activism. His research projects explore climate justice, decolonial pedagogies, and epistemologies from Global South contexts. He integrates methodologies focused on sustainability, upcycling, and collective design. He has taught at several leading global institutions and is currently pursuing a practice-based PhD at CREAM, University of Westminster, London. He disseminates his research internationally through exhibitions, biennials, and publications.

He is also a part of ruangrupa, a contemporary art organisation initiated in 2000 by a group of artists in Jakarta. As a not-for-profit, ruangrupa strives to encourage progressive art ideas in urban and the extensive cultural context by means of exhibition, festival. art laboratory, workshop, research, books, magazines, and online publications.

Iswanto Hartono was one of the co-Artistic Directors when the collective led Documenta Fifteen/Lumbung #1 in Kassel, Germany, in 2022. He is also a part of Musyawarah Arsip, an independent platform initiated to identify, store, care for, activate and present archives to the public in various programs and media, based in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Disobedient Science opens pathways for relational practices in art and activism that move beyond inherited scripts of colonial knowledge production and scientific rationalism, revealing instead how thinking and making are never disembodied, and how lived time and space are touched by scales both intimate and immense: geologic, historic, microscopic and planetary.

How to Pin Down Smoke: ruangrupa since 2000, published by Afterall in association with Asia Art Archive; the Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; documenta Institut; and the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg.

Full programme details via link in bio.

DISOBEDIENT SCIENCE | MEET THE ARTIST: ASHISH GHADIALI Ashish Ghadiali is an artist-researcher whose practice extends th...
04/05/2026

DISOBEDIENT SCIENCE | MEET THE ARTIST: ASHISH GHADIALI

Ashish Ghadiali is an artist-researcher whose practice extends through film, writing, performance and sound to include the construction of networks, sites, learning and collaborative infrastructures that are intended to function as living decolonial systems. Much of this work builds on questions of what it means to make art in the context of climate breakdown and on making visible structures that connect climate breakdown's dystopian futures to its origins in the transatlantic slave trade. He is the founder and director of Radical Ecology and was co-chair of UCL’s Black Atlantic Innovation Network with Paul Gilroy (2022-5) and co-author of the Nature Sustainability study Quantifying the human cost of global warming with Tim Lenton (2023). Film works include Dream Ecologies (2026), On Synchronicity (2026), 7 seconds/this part of world contains a complete world (2025), Can you tell the time of a running river? (2024), Invasion Ecology (2024), Planetary Imagination (2023) and The Confession (2016).

Ashish Ghadiali is joining us for Disobedient Science, a 2-day gathering .house and , hosted by in partnership with UCL, LAHP and Afterall Research Centre on 7-8 May 2026.

The programme opens pathways for relational practices in art and activism that move beyond inherited scripts of colonial knowledge production and scientific rationalism, revealing instead how thinking and making are never disembodied, and how lived time and space are touched by scales both intimate and immense: geologic, historic, microscopic and planetary.

Full programme details via link in bio.

DISOBEDIENT SCIENCE | MEET THE ARTIST: KATHERINE MCKITTRICK Katherine McKittrick is Professor of Gender Studies and Cana...
03/05/2026

DISOBEDIENT SCIENCE | MEET THE ARTIST: KATHERINE MCKITTRICK

Katherine McKittrick is Professor of Gender Studies and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. She authored Dear Science and Other Stories (DUP, 2021), and Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (UMP, 2006). She also edited and contributed to Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis (DUP, 2015) and, with Clyde Woods, Black Geographies and the Politics of Place (BTL, 2007). Her writing is also collected in the volume Heartbreak and Other Geographies,edited by Brittany Meché and Camilla Hawthorne (UMP, 2026). Recent projects include the limited-edition boxset, Trick Not Telos (2023, with Cristian Ordóñez and Liz Ikiriko), the limited-edition hand-made book,Twenty Dreams (2024, with Cristian Ordóñez) and the installation honouring nourbeSe philip, A Smile Split by the Stars (Gallery 44, Spring 2025, with Nasrin Himada, Sameen Mahboubi and Cristian Ordóñez).

Katherine McKittrick is joining us for Disobedient Science, a 2-day gathering .house and , hosted by in partnership with UCL, LAHP and Afterall Research Centre on 7-8 May 2026.

The programme opens pathways for relational practices in art and activism that move beyond inherited scripts of colonial knowledge production and scientific rationalism, revealing instead how thinking and making are never disembodied, and how lived time and space are touched by scales both intimate and immense: geologic, historic, microscopic and planetary.

Full programme details via link in bio.

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