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Voices from the Global South: confronting climate coloniality
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: confronting climate coloniality

...keynote in the series of seven videos below..._Find out more about The Open University's Geography courses and qualifications. _ Listening without meddling, challenging collectivelyIn my mind, an important contribution of these films, taken together, is how powerful they are in the messaging of how to challenge and confront climate coloniality. Transcript. Good COP, bad COP Global South countries without power and influence......
Investigating environmental futures through speculative design
Society, Politics & Law

Investigating environmental futures through speculative design

...geography to enquire into environmental futures. Such ‘thinking through making’ can be demanding, because the method of finding out about a thing, the thing itself and the concepts employed to interpret the thing emerge at the same time. This introduces a strong sense of fragility and unpredictability into the process, but also genuine moments of discovery, where one...
Design ecologies animation
Science, Maths & Technology

Design ecologies animation

...ecological impacts, including the legacy of waste generated by consumer products. Design ecologies explore the entire system, mapping resources, flows, and interactions at various scales and geographies. This animation uses a smartphone as an example to introduce the concept of design ecology through addressing ways to reduce the phone’s environmental impact. Transcript...
Outdoor spaces for tiny humans
Education & Development

Outdoor spaces for tiny humans

...Dots] Download video transcript References Froebel, F. (1826) The education of man. (Translated from the German by Jarvis 1885). New York: A. Lovell and Company. Holt, L. and Philo, C. (2023) ‘Tiny human geographies: babies and toddlers as non-representational and barely human life?’, Children’s Geographies, 21(5), pp. 819–831. doi: 10.1080/14733285.2022.2130684....
Housing beyond borders
Society, Politics & Law

Housing beyond borders

...Geography courses and qualifications. As we are so often told, we are now living in a globalised world. Certainly, cities are increasingly being reinvented and promoted as intense, powerful hubs of activity and interaction in a globally, interconnected world. From the movement of people and goods through to the circulation of money, knowledge and information, it can be...
Non-existent countries
Society, Politics & Law

Non-existent countries

...geographies of contested nationalisms have led to a fascinating story of what it means to be a country and why it matters. From familiar names that are routinely considered to be countries, such as Taiwan and Somaliland, to North Sea nations such as Sealand with its population of 27, Nick Middleton’s book highlights how the conventional map of the world divided by...
Showing the way they went
Science, Maths & Technology

Showing the way they went

...geography while high above the ground. This material forms part of the course MU120 Open mathematics... Showing the way they went A short introduction to this album. A hot air balloon journey An insight into the planning that goes into a hot air balloon journey and also how maps can be produced through filming from a hot air balloon. Spherical geometry This track shows us...
How data is making our cities smarter
Society, Politics & Law

How data is making our cities smarter

...Geography at the University of Oxford...Recorded at The Open University for BBC Radio 4's sociological discussion programme, Thinking Allowed. Transcript Data is a significant part of technological life and has made the news recently due to breaches, misuse and new legislative regulations. For smart city planners, an individual's data is often not very useful - big data...