Interdependence

Description

The Indigenous worldview is rooted in a pan-species epistemology. It cultivates axiological relationships of humans to the natural world through an inclusive taxonomy of ‘being alive’ where everything – plants, rocks, minerals, lakes, and deserts – has its own intelligence and creative process.

In Native Science, causality reflects the belief that cause and effect go beyond the physical principles such as synchronicity and the action of natural energies and entities to include the transformation of energy to other forms. The state of flux and its constantly re-forming cycles of interaction are creative. They flow from the ‘implicate order’ – the inherent potential of the universe – into the ‘explicate order’ of material and energetic expressions (Bohm 1973; Cajete 2004). This workshop explored non-visual forms of sensing, the four cardinal directions and orientation in ecological time, multi-species epistemologies and whole-body storying.

Period	25 Sept 2024
Event type	Workshop
Location	Dundee, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International