Thank you for taking the time to read my writing. I am grateful for your thoughts, challenges and questions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In October of 2020 I took a walk through my neighbourhood, mask on I passed by boarded-up storefronts and COVID-19 testing centres. As I walked I listened to CBC reporter Nahlad Ayed interview Todd Dufresne about his book The Democracy of Suffering: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe, Philosophy in the Anthropence<\/em>. In this interview, Dufresne offered that the climate crisis presents the opportunity to reassess current structures and rebuild. I thought of activist and author Naomi Klein, who similarly writes about the opportunity for a radical restructuring – re-framing the climate crisis as a catalyst for change. Klein calls for a response to the climate emergency: one which sees the dismantlement of capitalism, the embracement of decolonization and the rebuilding of systems from an anti-oppressive and anti-racist framework. What both of these authors offer is hope in the face of overwhelming fear and a call to action for innovation, creativity and change. As the interview drew to a close, Dufresne offered a final, harrowing statement, \u201cThe Anthropocene condition is our chance, maybe our last chance, to matter. We should take it\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Within this blog I look forward to exploring this question of what actions we can take at this time – interrogating this question of how to “matter” and how we can ensure that anti-settler colonialism, anti-racism and human-centred design informs these actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thank you for taking the time to read my writing. I am grateful for your thoughts, challenges and questions. In October of 2020 I took a walk through my neighbourhood, mask on I passed by boarded-up storefronts and COVID-19 testing centres. As I walked I listened to CBC reporter Nahlad Ayed interview Todd Dufresne about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cals501","et-bg-layout-dark","et-background-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webspace.royalroads.ca\/lheidenheim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}