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Mar 28, 2024 • 43min

Changing Narratives

"It's time to change the vocabulary," says one of the guests of this episode. In Budapest, we visit two civil society organisations that challenge existing narratives. We first talk to Teréz Pataki and Reza Sayed Mustafa from Mira Haz, a community centre that welcomes migrants and refugees. We discuss intercultural learning and why an integration course isn’t a factory. We also meet with Róbert Kepe from the Shelter Foundation, which supports homeless people. Róbert introduces us to the Hungarian Street Paper, where all contributors – no matter their experience or background – have their art published on the same page. In the meantime, we get advice on where to best learn to fly a kite as an adult, and find out why vending machines in Budapest sell books.
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Mar 14, 2024 • 52min

Naming the Nameless

Who makes – and owns – a language? In Linz, we meet with Rubia Salgado, language teacher and co-founder of das kollektiv, a collective of migrant women. As we walk along the Danube, we talk to Rubia about who belongs in public spaces, what it means to be open to change, and why learning about migration can’t be reduced to trying out new dinner recipes. We discuss what grammar and syntax in a language have to do with power and who constructs a language. Rubia also tells us about the benefits of chewing the words – and why poetry can help.
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Feb 29, 2024 • 42min

A Little Island

What if our space for learning could turn into a living room, a café – or an island? In the first episode of the new season, we pass by Vienna to begin our exploration of learning, identity and belonging. We meet with Margit Lindner from the magdas hotel, a social enterprise that supports learners with a refugee background. Margit takes us on a tour of the hotel and tells us what it means to run a business that’s focused on people, and not on profit. We also talk to Alisa Cela-Goldgruber from Verein Piramidops, a community centre for migrant women. She shows us around the neighbourhood, and shares how adult learning can create new spaces for exchange between communities, both physical and metaphorical.
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Dec 21, 2023 • 30min

Women Don't Cycle

If you cycled from Europe to Tokyo, who would you meet on the way – and what would you learn? Together with EAEA’s Angeliki Giannakopoulou, we talk to Manon Brulard, a filmmaker who tells us about her documentary “Women Don’t Cycle”. She shares why cycling 13,000 km from Brussels to Tokyo – and then making a film about it – has been a transformative learning experience. We also talk about the bicycle as a social vehicle for women, the power of community building and claiming public space. We record our conversation during a feminist festival in Brussels, at which we are joined by a cat.
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Dec 7, 2023 • 28min

Upside Down

What if you could design and build your community space - no matter your background or skills? In this episode, we meet with Maria Glionna, an architect, educator and learner, who tells us about participatory architecture as a practice of empowerment. We also discuss learning as a way of connecting to your own body, emotions and nature, and Maria’s personal and professional journey: from Italy through the UK to Belgium, and from traditional to community-based architecture. While talking, we visit a community centre in Brussels, where we take a look into Maria’s workshop and learn how to make a house out of clay (and glitter).
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Nov 23, 2023 • 25min

Elephant Steps

What could you make out of your mother’s coat? EAEA’s Raffaela Kihrer goes to her weekly sewing class and talks to her teacher and classmates about their learning experience and motivation. They discuss what it means to get attached to the things that you own - but also to the people in your class - and what the Great British Sewing Bee has got to do with it. In the meantime, Raffaela works on her first sewing challenge.
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Nov 9, 2023 • 29min

Growing

“Vegetables grow here and people grow here,” says one of the employees of Groot Eiland, a social enterprise based in Molenbeek, Brussels. Together with Patrick de Coster, we meet with instructors and trainees who share their thoughts about the social context in Brussels, vulnerability, and safe spaces for learning. We also take a guess on what the most diverse city in the world is (spoiler: it's not New York). In the meantime, we visit an urban farm, a restaurant and an organic shop run by Groot Eiland, and witness a landscaping project in the making.
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Oct 26, 2023 • 29min

Making Meaning

“The future belongs to all of us,” says Maarten Okkersen at the Museon Omniversum in the Hague. We talk about how museums can help make sense of the changing world and encourage agency and empathy. We also discuss what interactivity really means, and why sometimes it’s useful to lose the technology. In the meantime, we visit the museum’s One Planet exhibition, where we find out what our phones are made of and try to save the coral reef.
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Oct 12, 2023 • 28min

Perfect Imperfections

What do you see behind a pomegranate? Clémence Garnier, a Brussels-based illustrator who created the visuals for our podcast, walks us through the steps of her art projects. As we pick flowers in her local park and take a look into her workspace, Clémence tells us how she learned to draw as an adult, and what doing life drawings taught her about body image. She also shares the many functions of a walk-in closet, how you can turn curcuma into stars – and why her work is a bit like magic. (We may or may not end up talking about witches.)
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Sep 27, 2023 • 29min

Forever Autonomous

How do we learn from the past to make it to the future? Wojciech Matejko from the Open Jazdów Partnership shows us around a settlement in Warsaw, Poland which has a unique history, and today houses families and NGOs. He shares a story of activism, community and adult learning, featuring Soviet imperialism, Finnish wooden houses, Chinese hens, and Japanese dance theatre.

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