"Understanding & Acting" conference

Abstract: Understanding in order to act, training in order to transform, such is the objective of the Handbook of the Great Transition, a collective work resulting from a request from the Ministry of Higher Education to the Transition Campus a year ago, in order to contribute to the structuring integration of ecological and social issues in higher education. The approach mobilized more than 70 teacher-researchers from all disciplines, as well as some professionals and students of the Movement for an Ecological Awakening. Cécile Renouard will present the inter- and transdisciplinary, holistic and citizen-based approach that underlies this work and will share the experience of the Campus de la Transition, an eco-place for training, research and experimentation, which she co-founded and where she has lived for the past two years. In particular, she will analyze the relationship to action and transformation that this type of project represents. This initiative, anchored in a territory and in a network, seeks to link different scales of action and to nourish dialogue between reformist perspectives, in rupture and at the interstices with a view to professional, social and cultural transformations. This invites reflection on the possibility - or not - of holding together two reformist and ruptured postures, and to question the place of activism in research and academic engagement.