Joachim Borner, I have been living among sheep for two years, researching socio-cultural and socio-ecological transformations as a philosopher, economist and ecologist from the rural perspective of Mecklenburg. Of course in the context of the Anthropocene/Capitalocene. Specifically, I am looking for communication cultures and narratives in processes of upheaval.

Methodology

The term “transformative literacy” refers to the challenge of learning to read the metamorphoses that are emerging in the Anthropocene in order to then learn how to act or design (or not). In the process, scientific knowledge intertwines with experiential knowledge, scientific and aesthetic processes of knowing, observing the world and observing myself, and so on.

Transformative knowledge can emerge from this, i.e. we generate together the knowledge (knowledge, world views, basic attitudes, experiences) that we need for the project of the summer university. This kind of knowledge probably needs to be constantly reflected upon, as does the way we think. In this reflection our different cultures and experiences, traditions will help us when we discuss controversially. “Organic learning” is what Giovanni Fonseca calls it. And that means that together and step by step we will fill up and revise the curriculum – as well as the digital study room (e-learning platform). In transformation research, there is the method of the real laboratory for this purpose, which we apply to our work. Later, in the course of the learning phases, we methodically resort to design fiction.

And to keep track of the common terms, meanings and concepts, we create a Wikipedia.