Planetary Pedagogies

Planetary Pedagogies is an initiative through which RMIT academics are exploring the impacts of planetary thinking across the higher education sector. 

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The planetary is a concept still being defined. Its current emergence marks the radical encounter of rapidly shifting ground conditions which defy dominant politics and practices. Climate change alters seasons and ecosystems, with animals – human and non-human alike – changing migration patterns in response. Pollution disperses and accumulates. Global economies and multi-national corporations influence local and international policy. AI models built and trained across multiple countries pose new influence on thinking and imagining. Satellites transmit continuous streams of data around the world, though unevenly. Across continents, Indigenous communities work to sustain, repair, and care for living cultures and homelands as their lands are cleared and extracted to fuel global technologies. This custodianship is undertaken within socio-political environments which have been responsible for and benefited from Indigenous people’s dispossession. Established national borders struggle to contain these events from spilling over while maintaining colonial programs in which the claim of national territory organises the extraction and possession of land, sea, air, energy.