Open Edu.
Open Edu is a free and accessible climate education series that centers the voices and perspectives of People of the Global Majority.
Open Edu teaches on multiple topics through 3 major lenses—human rights, climate justice and collective liberation.
We believe that education is the foundation of progress, and that collectively we can cultivate the critical thinking to dismantle harmful systems.
Systems Literacy
Spring 2024
12pm ET
Systems Literacy 101 with Céline Semaan
12pm ET
Mamluks: How Slaves Ruled an Empire with Charles Al-Hayek
12pm ET
Reflections on Levantine Jewish History with Charles Al-Hayek
12pm ET
Ecocide and Genocide with Earth Preservation Project
12pm ET
Storytelling and Reclaiming Narratives for Systemic Change with Jenan Matari
12pm ET
Transforming Food Systems with Vivien Sansour
12pm ET
Media Literacy with Melissa Jun Rowley
12pm ET
Healing in the Time of Tragedy with Nadia Irshaid Gilbert
12pm ET
Inclusive Frameworks for Collective Liberation with Céline Semaan
12pm ET
Spiritual Alchemy with Lalah Delia
12pm ET
Communicating on the Polycrisis with Slow Factory
12pm ET
Pinkwashing and Palestine with Samer Alhato
12pm ET
Systems Design for the Real World with RISD’s Center for Complexity with RISD’s Center for Complexity
Systems & Design Thinking
Systems Design for the Real World with RISD’s Center for Complexity with RISD’s Center for Complexity
Communicating on the Polycrisis with Slow Factory
Inclusive Frameworks for Collective Liberation with Céline Semaan
Transforming Food Systems with Vivien Sansour
Systems Literacy 101 with Céline Semaan
A Course In Natural Dyes : Waste as a Resource, Forming Local Systems with Cara Marie Piazza
Smart Cities with Aditi Desai
Beirut Symposium with Adib Dada, Charles Al-Hayek, Sara Al-Yafi
Designing Social & Environmental Justice with Antionette Carroll, Céline Semaan, Christine Platt
Designing Accessibility, But Make it Fashion with Sinéad Burke
Algorithmic Bias with Tazin Khan
Regenerative Design: Textile Systems with Teju Adisa-Farrar
Equity-Centered Community Design with Antionette Carroll
History of Neglected Arab Graphic Design with Haytham Nawar
Waste-Led Design with Céline Semaan
Sustainability Literacy Class 4 with Céline Semaan
Sustainability Literacy Class 3 with Céline Semaan
Sustainability Literacy Class 2 with Céline Semaan
Sustainability Literacy Class 1 with Céline Semaan
Critical Media Studies
Media Literacy with Melissa Jun Rowley
Storytelling and Reclaiming Narratives for Systemic Change with Jenan Matari
Decolonizing Design with Maya Moumne
Reparative Media with Dr. Aymar Jéan Christian
Constructive & Creative Media Literacy with Dr. Maytha Alhassen
Critical Media Literacy with Dr. Maytha Alhassen
Cancel Culture with Fariha Róisín
Deconstructing Greenwash Myths with Sophia Li
Greenwashing, Wokewashing and Why You Avoid Both with Aja Barber
Fashion & Beauty Politics
Fireside Chat with author of 'Consumed' with Aja Barber
White Supremacy and Beauty Politics with Dr. Yaba Blay
Fashion and Blackness with Tabitha St. Bernard-Jacobs, Jonathan Square
Fashion And Sexual & Reproductive Health with Erica Chidi
Fashion And Cultural Heritage with Yasmeen Mjalli
Fashion And Prison Labor with Teju Adisa-Farrar
Fashion And Resistance with Korina Emmerich
Fashion And Spirituality with Anisa Tavangar
Fashion And Culture with Tracy Reese
Fashion And Waste with Liz Ricketts
Fashion And Colonialism with Céline Semaan
Regenerative Economics
(Re)designing Corporations with Céline Semaan
Leather: Fashion’s Dirty Secret with Céline Semaan, João Talocchi, Greg Higgs, Teju Adisa-Farrar, Cameron Russell
Upcycling Textiles is a Business with Makayla Wray
Upcycling Workshop — Waste as a Resource with Nicole McLaughin, Akilah Stewart
Jewelry Design for the Real World with Wing Yau, Bliss Lau
Environmental Impact
Ecocide and Genocide with Earth Preservation Project
Orientalism & Environmental Justice with Dr. Suja R. Sawafta
O‘ahu Water Crisis: Shut Down Red Hill! with Céline Semaan, Dr. David Uahikeaikaleiʻohu Maile, Healani Pale
Anticolonial Methodologies with Dr. Max Liboiron
Living Systems: Planting Liberation with Adib Dada
Town Hall: End of Year Climate Debrief with Céline Semaan, Sophia Li
Regenerative Agriculture (advanced) with Karen Washington
Indigenous Agriculture in the Middle East with Charles Al-Hayek
The Culture of Disposability: How did we make throwing good things away part of our culture? with Céline Semaan
History of Regenerative Agriculture with Karen Washington
Material Literacy
Poetics, Politics, and Paradoxes of Sand with Nehal El-Hadi
Material Literacy with Seetal Solanki
History of Microplastics with Madeleine MacGillivray
History of Plastic with Dr. Theanne Schiros
Collective Healing
Spiritual Alchemy with Lalah Delia
Healing in the Time of Tragedy with Nadia Irshaid Gilbert
CARE IS WHAT WE DO with Ross Gay
Change is a Creative Practice with Jezz Chung
Access Intimacy for Disability Justice with Sulaiman R. Khan
Spiritual Capacity with Syntyché Francella
Systemic Racism & Identity Politics
Pinkwashing and Palestine with Samer Alhato
Reflections on Levantine Jewish History with Charles Al-Hayek
Mamluks: How Slaves Ruled an Empire with Charles Al-Hayek
Indigenous Sovereignty in Brazil with Zaya Ribeiro
Challenging Anti-Blackness for Collective Liberation Pt. 2 with maya finoh
Historical Impacts of the Fashion Industry on Labor and the Environment with Teju Adisa-Farrar
Envisioning Black Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty with Amber Starks (aka Melanin Mvskoke)
Land and Indigenous Politics with Dr. David Uahikeaikaleiʻohu Maile
Cultural Appropriation’s Negative Impact on North American Indigenous Peoples with Korina Emmerich, Chris Allaire, Jamie Okuma, Tania Larsson, Dr. Adrienne Keene
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