Today’s episode explores a simple but urgent question: is our education system still fit for the world we’re entering? Climate disruption, AI, and uncertainty demand new forms of education fit for complexity and change.
A rich lineage of alternative and experimental education has been evolving for decades, seeking to make learning more holistic, place-based, creative, and ecologically grounded. The focus of today’s conversation is one of those institutions: Black Mountains College in Wales. BMC is building a university model explicitly designed for a warming world, where nature is often the classroom and curriculum blends ecology and climate science with the arts, systems thinking, and community-rooted practice.
I’m joined by its co-founder and CEO, Ben Rawlence, award-winning writer and former human rights researcher, to explore:
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Music: Electric Ethnicity by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock & Ellie Kidd
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