Dylan Whale

I work across the fields of Education, Ecology, and the Arts. As such I work with several tentacles touching the world, as an Educational Sociologist, Political Ecologist, multi-media artist, theatre and film maker. The closest thing I have to a religion is the place where ecology, story and mythology meet. I am constantly entranced by the power of public storytelling as a mechanism for healing, empathy, meaning-making and fostering inclusive forms of governance in complex social-ecological entanglements. My areas of research span a wide spectrum, including Transgressive Social Learning, Public Pedagogy, Theatre-based Research, Arts-based Research, Visual anthropology, legal anthropology, Queer Eco-Pedagogy, Post-humanism, New Materialism, and critical African feminist approaches to co-engaged research. I am most interested in the profound role of connective aesthetics, social sculpture, and 'making' as essential forms of thinking and theorizing, what I like to call “meaning ∞ making