Eco-Media is a set of hybrid learning opportunities for students everywhere to explore and produce meaningful media for the critical and compassionate exchange of ideas.
The programs and publications blend the studies and application of deep ecology, social cohesion, civil discourse, well-being, and critical media literacy to engage students in unpacking a complex technological landscape while creating media for a healthier, happier, and more sustainable world.
Schools, educators and students can customize experiences with our Inspire Citizens’ team around launching Eco-Media programs, co-designing learning experiences, embedding humane media and technology literacies into practices and school communities, and empowering learners to design purposeful publications for local and global digital exhibitions and our own Inspire Citizens archives.
Contact Ivy Yan: ivy@twobirds.education for any Eco-Media inquiries
Carly writes, choreographs, and performs her song "Inclusion" in both Mandarin and English to shed light on how we all should strive to help others feel a sense of belonging despite the complexities of relationships and our challenging world. Music and dance can be one such pathway to help us better understand one another.
Read MoreAs we grow in awareness of issues tied to justice, I have rarely felt able personally do something beyond trying to bring deeper compassion into friendships and new situations. While this ground-level, personal action towards justice is critical, I now see a way to connect my artwork to both anti-discrimination themes and towards global collaboration.
My personal, artistic goal was to choreograph a five-minute dance piece, as an intercultural fusion of dance styles in order to show that all dance styles are beautiful and deserve respect, contributing to a message centered in equality and unity. Exploring and engaging with new cultures and art forms can help reduce xenophobia, and when put together, we can see how we share in the human experience.
Read MoreWith the instant satisfaction brought by numerical representations of ourselves through scores, body figure, wealth, and so on, we tend to focus too much on the journey of pursuing numerical status. When this becomes extreme, it can cause anxiety, physiological and psychological illness, even direct wrongdoings.
But numbers do NOT represent who we are as sentimental human beings!
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