For World Water Day, join us for an evening on Friday, 21st March, 6PM, in the Clockhouse, Old Library! WUR activist researcher C arlota Houart will share with us a powerful movie and lead a discussion around the power of regenerating water cycles and building a culture of care.

About the film:
“Water is Love” follows a group of young people grappling with the climate crisis while we journey around the world to share inspiring stories of regenerative ecosystem design to create water retention in communities, villages, and regions.
We
touch upon traditional ecological knowledge, how water makes climate, and the importance of restoring complete water cycles. Through inspiring stories from successful projects in India, Kenya, and Portugal, we aim to spark conversations and actions that contribute to a regenerative and resilient world. As we're facing both the growing devastating impacts of climate disruption and the failure of governments to act, this film points to an often overlooked need and possibility: community-driven decentralized water management as a critical key for surviving — and thriving in — this century.

The Jester/RUW and OtherWise are coming together for this four-part series! We will explore multispecies worlds through creative writing, art, map-making and more.

In the month of March, every Tuesday-evening we are inviting you to explore a new perspective on your connection with the world around you We invite you to shed our human skin to connect with the more-than-human, allow the edges of our being to become porous, imagine new worlds.

We will meet every Tuesday of March for these sessions, from 17:30 till 19:30. LOCATION: Old library, Clockhouse in Wageningen. It is not necessary to attend all sessions, or to have been to the previous one to attend the following one!

We kindly invite you to come have lunch with us and explore the role of nature in your study programme. We will gather outside on campus and do some nature-inclusive exercises together, followed by a dialogue on how nature can make education more meaningful. 

Please spread the word with students in your network! See you there!

• Where? Meet in front of Impulse
• When? Tuesdays 18/3, 25/3, 01/4, 15/4

Are you looking for supervisors for your Master's thesis? Brainstorming topics but not sure which one to pick? Then maybe this list will help you decide! The Cultural Geography group (GEO) has put together a nice list of possible theses options for students, and we thought we'd share them here to help you make this difficult decision. Many of these topics align with what we're doing at OtherWise, think 'Art in Climate Change', 'What does Freedom mean to you?', 'Human-nature interactions' and more. 

Does one of these topics call out to you?

Curious and want more information? Contact cheryl.vanadrichem@wur.nl for more info :) 

And if you're still looking, consider the possibility of doing a combined thesis-internship with OtherWise!

Are you still looking for a course to take in period 6? We think this will float your boat :)

This course is for MSc and PhD students in
social and environmental sciences who want
to learn and engage more with gender and
other intersecting socio-ecological differences in their study/professional domain by applying those perspectives to concrete cases. 

Topics: 

- feminist approaches (eg: history, epistemology, political ecology, more-than-human)

- care

- masculinity

- decolonization

- food

- issues in feminist research 

Contact chizu.sato@wur.nl for more info!

🪡Feminist Radical Quiltmaking Workshop for Women's day🪡

Time to reclaim traditionally 'feminine' 'crafts' for the radical act that they are!
In honor of Women's March, OtherWise and Amsterdam Dyke March are coming together to bring you a Radical Quiltmaking Workshop on March 6, 5:00 PM-8:00 PM💜
📍Location: Clockhouse (General Foulkesweg 37, 6703BL)

Each participant will embroider or paint words and doodles of resistance on themes surrounding feminism.
You will moreover have the chance to learn some simple patchwork techniques!

Together, these patches will form a feminsit radical quilt that we will parade during the Women's March in Wageningen!✊

Materials and snacks will be provided. Just sign up and bring yourself! (Sign up Link) (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1IXjAGOh0haZPLF3K_HP5qc846T8XmvfnWhkxMI0vrY454A/viewform?usp=sharing)

Update: First session starts on the 20th!

Join us for our three-part workshop series: REST EMBODY RESIST with Zahira Mous

Workshop dates:  20, 26 February 2025, from 5-8 pm. As we build up the content and the trust in the group, we generally expect attendance in all three sessions unless communicated with us for certain circumstances.

Location: Clockhouse building Old library (Generaal Foulkesweg 37, Wageningen)

Questions to: otherwise@wur.nl

Sign up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HaczU_P5ne2y48ikmF6uudZU9QmsPGHyZBx7CoSWSJ4/edit

This three-part workshop is focused on movement and mind-body connection, for people who want to heal and learn in a group setting. Zahira uses decolonized healing methods to help the community cope with the demanding reality of being human. Modalities utilized: sharing and listening, EFT, moving from the wisdom of the body, and creativity. It is a three-part workshop series during which we deepen the work each session, diving into layers of our being, making an inner inquiry and creating space within (sometimes questions, sometimes answers). With this work, you'll gain tools to help regulate your nervous system, increasing self-awareness through recognizing your worth, as well as connecting to (building) community. Welcome to REST | EMBODY | RESIST.

For whom?

Rest And Resist emerged as a platform for needing a supportive and safe space for fellow activists and artists fighting for a free Palestine, and beyond. Their work focuses on fighting exhaustion, separation, burnout, harm, and disillusionment in activist movements. If you are longing for a collective space where you can rest with intent to co-regulate, build resilience, supportive networks, mutual care, and trust, this space is for you. As we will use our bodies to move and heal what needs healing, we aim to accommodate bodies of different abilities. If you have any questions or concerns weather this space is for you, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at otherwise@wur.nl .

When: Wednesday February 12 @17:30
Where: Dance room, WUR Clockhouse (Generaal Foulkesweg 37, 6703 BL Wageningen)

There are several reasons why we enroll at a university and there are several ways in which a university education contributes to our personal and professional development. A degree can open doors to many different career paths, classes can be a great opportunity to meet new people, and some university professors are great mentors. However, the same classrooms can impact us in less constructive ways: since we are compelled to prove we are better, smarter, and more special than those around us.

Tonight, we will explore how universities shape us through discussing public intellectuals, people who make a living by being visibly smarter and more special than others. (Self-reflection can only be truly effective, if we ask ourselves the toughest questions, like, do we have something in common with Jordan Peterson?;))

Vegan snacks and tea will be provided :)