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Celebrating both/and bodying: transformative learning, transdisciplinarity, and interculturality in Barcelona

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  • Doerte Weig

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This contribution takes the Interculturality Programme of the city of Barcelona as a starting point for exploring self-awareness and deeper self-environment relations as important aspects of urban sustainability education and transformative learning. Building on how anti-discrimination workshops evidence that enriching self-other relations starts with ‘self’, the article explores how this is related to a different interconnected understanding of ‘body’, involving also fascia, our bodily connective tissue. In particular, the both/and quality of the fascia tissue-system challenges to re-think the relations of wholes and parts and how this impacts sustainability concepts and practices. Training teachers and students in body awareness and developing process- and verb-oriented vocabularies such as bodying are suggested as impactful tools. Drawing together neurophysiology, systems thinking and transition theory in this way, inspires to play with how knowledge of bodily complexity can help shift sustainability education towards more transdisciplinary awareness and action.

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  • Doerte Weig, 2025. "Celebrating both/and bodying: transformative learning, transdisciplinarity, and interculturality in Barcelona," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 27(9), pages 20719-20733, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:endesu:v:27:y:2025:i:9:d:10.1007_s10668-023-03189-x
    DOI: 10.1007/s10668-023-03189-x
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