Lead by Dr Graeme Forbes, the Pandemic Philosophy Project aims to develop interventions to make life better for ourselves and those around us.
This is an inquiry based learning creative project in which participants work, individually, or in groups, inspired by the philosophical problem of how to live in these times. This year, the focus will be self-cultivation and community-building after a year of isolation. The end goal will be to create an intervention; something that we can do to change the community we live in, to make life within the community better, more flourishing and/or more fun. It will involve a weekly discussion of philosophical topics, and a weekly show-and-tell of ideas for creatively engaging with practical ideas for self-cultivation and community building. We have philosophers and others from around the Arts and Humanities Division, each of whom will actively be reflecting on these problems for their own lives and communities.
We’ll meet twice a week during the summer term online. You will need access to a computer, a web cam, and microphone, or a mobile phone which has all three!
Speaking about the project, Dr Graeme Forbes says “The aim of the project, this year, is to develop some kind of intervention to make life better for ourselves and those around us. This might be an event, or perhaps a set of practices, a ritual, a game, or a tradition. What we come up with will be the result of our collective exploration of this first-personal philosophical problem.”
Dates and times to be confirmed.
For more information, email g.a.forbes@kent.ac.uk