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 lensesâhuman 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.
Everything is Political
Winter 2024
12pm ET
Claudia De la Cruz: Voting is Not Enough with Claudia de la Cruz
12pm ET
Decolonizing Africa: Congo, Sudan, Tigray with Tai Salih
12pm ET
Climate & War with Sarah Sinno / Earth Preservation Project
12pm ET
Building Coalition with Claudia de la Cruz with Claudia de la Cruz
12pm ET
Lebanon and the Region Under Siege (Again) with Chloe Kattar
Systems & Design Thinking
Building Coalition with Claudia de la Cruz with Claudia de la Cruz
Decolonizing Africa: Congo, Sudan, Tigray with Tai Salih
Claudia De la Cruz: Voting is Not Enough with Claudia de la Cruz
Designing for Collective Liberation with CĂ©line Semaan
Inclusive Frameworks for Collective Liberation with CĂ©line Semaan
Transforming Food Systems with Vivien Sansour
Systems Literacy 101 with CĂ©line 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, CĂ©line Semaan, Christine Platt
Designing Accessibility, But Make it Fashion with Sinéad Burke
Algorithmic Bias with Tazin Khan
Forbidden Systems with Mandy Harris Williams
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 CĂ©line Semaan
Sustainability Literacy Class 4 with CĂ©line Semaan
Sustainability Literacy Class 3 with CĂ©line Semaan
Sustainability Literacy Class 2 with CĂ©line Semaan
Sustainability Literacy Class 1 with CĂ©line Semaan
Critical Media Studies
Media Literacy with Collis Browne, Afeef Nessouli
Storytelling and Reclaiming Narratives for Systemic Change with Jenan Matari
Decolonizing Design with Maya Moumne
Reparative Media with Dr. Aymar JĂ©an Christian
Constructive & Creative Media Literacy with Dr. Maytha Alhassen
Critical Media Literacy with Dr. Maytha Alhassen
Cancel Culture with Fariha RoÌisiÌn
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 CĂ©line Semaan
Regenerative Economics
(Re)designing Corporations with CĂ©line Semaan
Leather: Fashionâs Dirty Secret with CĂ©line Semaan, JoĂŁo Talocchi, Greg Higgs, Teju Adisa-Farrar, Cameron Russell
Upcycling Textiles is a Business with Makayla Wray
Q&A: Ask Me Anything with Aja Barber, Liz Ricketts, CĂ©line Semaan, Dounia Wone
The History of Resale Markets: Throwing away clothes for a living with Liz Ricketts
The History of Fast Fashion: How did this system take over? with Aja Barber
âFloresta em PĂ©â: Regenerative Economies in the Amazon with Andrea Ălvares
Upcycling Workshop â Waste as a Resource with Nicole McLaughin, Akilah Stewart
Jewelry Design for the Real World with Wing Yau, Bliss Lau
Environmental Impact
Climate & War with Sarah Sinno / Earth Preservation Project
Ecocide and Genocide with Earth Preservation Project
Orientalism & Environmental Justice with Dr. Suja R. Sawafta
Oâahu Water Crisis: Shut Down Red Hill! with CĂ©line Semaan, Dr. David UahikeaikaleiÊ»ohu Maile, Healani Pale
Anticolonial Methodologies with Dr. Max Liboiron
Living Systems: Planting Liberation with Adib Dada
Town Hall: End of Year Climate Debrief with CĂ©line 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 CĂ©line Semaan
History of Regenerative Agriculture with Karen Washington
The Environmental Design of Olive Oil with CĂ©line Semaan
Socially & Environmentally Responsible Cocoa Production with CĂ©line Semaan
Regenerative Agriculture with Fibershed with Teju Adisa-Farrar
Material Literacy
Poetics, Politics, and Paradoxes of Sand with Nehal El-Hadi
Material Literacy with Seetal Solanki
History of Cotton with Teju Adisa-Farrar, ShaâMira Covington
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
Lebanon and the Region Under Siege (Again) with Chloe Kattar
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)
Challenging Anti-Blackness for Collective Liberation with maya finoh
Land and Indigenous Politics with Dr. David Uahikeaikaleiʻohu Maile
Cultural Appropriationâs Negative Impact on North American Indigenous Peoples with Korina Emmerich, Chris Allaire, Jamie Okuma, Tania Larsson, Dr. Adrienne Keene
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