Shift and Signal

Shift and Signal takes listeners on aural journeys exploring the deeper adaptations we can make locally and globally in responding to the crises we face. The podcast asks you to SHIFT beyond stuck conversations about how we implement change, and SIGNAL towards better ways of living.

Episode #8: Restore Community 05/18/2018

Episode #8: Restore Community This live recording was the final part of the series, and invited those involved via downloading, listening, sharing, and coming on the guided walks, to participate. The conversation began with Rebecca Huggan (NewBridge Project) and Laura Coleman (ONCA) discussing the role of arts organisations in building response-ability towards climate change, and invited participants to relinquish unsustainable habits, build resilience in our bodies, and restore practices that lead to earthly flourishing. /episode/index/show/shiftandsignal/id/6607967

Episode #7: Restore the Climate 05/10/2018

Episode #7: Restore the Climate The purpose of Deep Adaptation thinking is to connect our practices, individual and societal, to the challenge of climate change. We’ve built resilience at home, and inside our bodies. Now it’s time to restore old practices of living in balance. This episode invites activists, artists, and those working in environmental roles, to share with us ideas of how we can become a climate resilient community. /episode/index/show/shiftandsignal/id/6577618

Episode #6: Restore the Soil 04/24/2018

Episode #6: Restore the Soil According to the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organisation, we may have only 60 seasons of soil left. If we don’t care for the earth – literally, the earth we can feel between our fingers – then as a global society we will collapse, and our species will die out before our grandchildren reach old age. This podcast looks at what we can do locally as well as globally, and what better ways of living we can practice if we want to restore the earth on which we depend for our food. /episode/index/show/shiftandsignal/id/6515820

Episode #5: Resilient Heart 04/10/2018

Episode #5: Resilient Heart Changing our habits is hard; they become part of who we are, wired into our ways of being. So if we need to change how we consume, how we relate, and who we want to be, under the shadow of climate change, then we have to take an inner journey too. This episode weaves together narratives of writers, artists, yoga teachers, therapists, academics, facilitators, and friends to reflect on journeys into resilience. /episode/index/show/shiftandsignal/id/6466470

Episode #4: Resilient Home 03/30/2018

Episode #4: Resilient Home If we’re going to live in balance with the world and build more resilient communities, we’re going to have to change how we live at home. This episode asks you to take a journey around your home. A mix of narrative and interviews with artists, zero waste activists, academics, home-dwellers, and home-makers, guides you to spend time with everything from your food waste to your washing basket, asking if there are better ways to restore a connection with the places in which we create our lives. /episode/index/show/shiftandsignal/id/6425344

Episode #3: Relinquish Humanity 01/07/2018

Episode #3: Relinquish Humanity Is it possible to relinquish our humanity? Wouldn’t that just make the crises we face such as climate change worse? Or is it the belief that, as humans, we are somehow more important and valuable than all other beings, the thing that has gotten us into this mess? This episode of the podcast asks what it means to be human today, how we live with nonhuman others, and if ideas of “posthumanism“ can help reconfigure how we live our lives in balance with the world around us. /episode/index/show/shiftandsignal/id/6123181

Episode 2: Relinquish Beauty 11/23/2017

Episode 2: Relinquish Beauty We need to talk about the ways women are sold an ideal of beauty by an increasingly ecologically damaging fashion industry. This episode weaves together a narrative of women's voices working within fashion, beauty and business enterprise, with interviews from academics, artists, feminists, activists and community leaders. The podcast follows a walk through Newcastle looking at the city through a gendered lens, engaging with how place shapes our lived experiences of fashion, beauty and consumerism. /episode/index/show/shiftandsignal/id/5974470

Episode 1: Relinquish Masculinity 10/24/2017

Episode 1: Relinquish Masculinity If we want to tackle contemporary crises, then we need to talk about masculinity and the patriarchal culture on which our cities and communities are built. This episode weaves together a narrative of masculine culture with interviews from academics, writers, feminists, activists and community leaders. The podcast encourages you to challenge masculinity, and take a walk through Newcastle-Gateshead looking at the city through a gendered lens, engaging with how place shapes our lived experience. /episode/index/show/shiftandsignal/id/5873389

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