This session features researchers from different backgrounds and explore modes of research that might stretch our notions about how and why we research. Through themes like Indigenous cosmologies, imagination, and play, the conversation has the potential expand our understanding of research possibilities.
Rutendo Ngara
Rutendo Ngara is an African Indigenous Knowledge Systems practitioner and transdisciplinary researcher, who has traversed clinical engineering, healthcare technology management, socio-economic development, mathematics, leadership and fashion design; to the interface between science, culture, cosmology and paradigms of healing. She has a passion for weaving art, science and spirituality towards healing of the Collective and restoration of the Whole.
Four Arrows
Four Arrows is an internationally respected author of numerous books, chapters and articles on Indigenous worldview applications for restoring balance in the world. AERO selected him as one of 27 visionaries in education and he is a recipient of a Moral Courage Award for his activism from the Martin Springer Institute for Holocaust studies at NAU.
Adler Yang
Adler Yang has committed his life since adolescence to addressing systemic challenges and to increasing mutual understanding and empathy in society through cooperative, educative, and peaceful initiatives. He is the Founding Director of the Awakening Cooperative Lab, a think-and-do tank that aims to research/design for, and actualize regenerative and harmonious societies with compassion and critical, complex systems awareness
Edgard Gouveia Júnior
Edgard Gouveia Júnior is an architect, urbanist, and researcher in cooperative games. His career focuses on mobilizing people of all ages through research-driven games and collective actions that inspire small community revolutions. As president of Epic Journey, he promotes regenerative communities within companies, schools, and NGOs. He co-founded LiveLab, where research and action empower youth to lead regeneration in their own communities through projects like Jornada X and Primavera X. An Ashoka, Berkana Exchange, and TRIP Transformers Fellow, he also teaches cooperative games pedagogy globally and is a co-founder of research-based initiatives such as Elos Institute and the Oasis Game.
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