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Beyond Climate Panic: Educating for Complexity in the Age of Polycrisis

ByRichelle SteynMay 8, 20258 mins

“This article explores the difference between climate education and climate indoctrination, the impact of fear-based messaging on the youth, and why understanding the climate crisis through the lens of polycrisis might lead us to more empowering cultural responses.”

Funding in the Commons: Why Ecosystem Awareness is Foundational

ByRichelle SteynApr 29, 202510 mins

Understanding your ecosystem — who’s doing what, where trust flows, and how your work fits in — is foundational to accessing funding using decentralised frameworks.

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Composting the Bypass: Entanglement, Grief, and the Pitfalls of Post-Anthropocentric Movements

ByRichelle SteynMay 15, 20255 mins
Are some post-anthropocentric movements — from mycelial networks to rhizomatic thinking, biomimicry to planetary intelligence — bypassing cultural healing by retreating into nature metaphors?

Dream Technologies and Ancestral Images: Reimagining Digital Art as Cultural Repair

ByRichelle SteynNov 25, 20257 mins
“Nice Aunties’ work hints at a future for digital art that is more human, more ritualised, and more ancestrally grounded. Cobb and Slattery provide the philosophical scaffolding; Khoi and San traditions offer the ethical and imaginal inheritance; dream technologies, fictional or real, show how images are medicine. What emerges is a powerful proposition: digital art can become a contemporary dream cave—an imaginal commons for healing, memory, and cultural repair.”

Some of the best known NFTs

ByRichelle SteynAug 6, 20232 mins
These examples showcase the diverse possibilities and creative potential of NFTs. They have also proven the appetite for unique, scarce, and innovative digital artworks among collectors and investors. As the NFT space continues to evolve, we can expect to see more innovation that pushes the boundaries of traditional art.
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