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Yinka Shonibare and the War Library 09-05-2024
Yinka Shonibare is a British artist with a Nigerian heritage. Born in London and raised between London and Lagos, he identifies himself as a ‘postcolonial hybrid’. His work sheds light on the performance of power. I came upon his exhibition in the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park by accident after a
Surfea Pauliño-Spanish 26-09-2022
Este poema fue escrito para celebrar el cumpleaños de Paulo Freire en el año de su muerte, en 1998.
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Co-Chairs’ message about the K4C Consortium
Our UNESCO Chair was created in 2012 at the request of UNESCO with whom we had worked on the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education. During the first five years of our work as Chairs, we carried out two major international research projects to gain insights into the ‘state-of-the-art’ around the world in the field of community-university res
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The Story of Participatory Research: History and Future, PRIA@40 Conversation
It was in 1976 that a group of interested persons across North America first met to discuss Participatory Research (PR) as an alternative means of research and use of knowledge for social change. In 1980, the first international meeting on Participatory Research was held in Ljubljana (in former Yugoslavia), attended by early pioneers of this ‘mov
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Open Science and the Decolonization of Knowledge International Webinar Series and Indigenous Circle
Open Science Webinar series is an endeavour to continue the dialogue on openness of science, proposed by the Canadian Commission for UNESCO pursuant to the consultation paper prepared by Leslie Chan,
Read MoreBridging Knowledge Cultures: Comparative results of global study
Bridging Knowledge Cultures: The Knowledge for Change Global Consortium on Training Community-Based Participatory Research (hereafter BKC) is a global
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UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education Based at the University of Victoria (UVic) and the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), this Chair is co-directed by Dr. Budd L Hall and Dr. Rajesh Tandon. The UNESCO Chair supports North-South-South and South-South partnerships that build on and enhance the emerging consensus in knowledge democracy. It strengthens recent collaboration between the Higher Education section in UNESCO, the Global University Network for Innovation (GUNI), Global Alliance on Community University Engagement and other regional and global networks. It co-creates new knowledge through partnerships among universities (academics), communities more..