Today’s episode explores a simple but urgent question: is our education system still fit for the world we’re entering? Climate disruption, AI, and uncertainty demand new forms of education fit for complexity and change.
A rich lineage of alternative and experimental education has been evolving for decades, seeking to make learning more holistic, place-based, creative, and ecologically grounded. The focus of today’s conversation is one of those institutions: Black Mountains College in Wales. BMC is building a university model explicitly designed for a warming world, where nature is often the classroom and curriculum blends ecology and climate science with the arts, systems thinking, and community-rooted practice.
I’m joined by its co-founder and CEO, Ben Rawlence, award-winning writer and former human rights researcher, to explore:
The historicity of Western educational systems
What the role of a university should be in society
Black Mountains College as model of the future of education
The role of ecological imagination
Youth, eco anxiety and the challenges of parenting in today’s planetary moment
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