Michelle Teran
Promiscuous Infrastructures: Practicing Care, pp.162-179
Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press/ Willem de Kooning Research Center
2024
This is a text about personal loss. It is about losing my mother. It is also about collective grief and how practices of collective grief are, for the most part absent in dominant Western culture, in institutional spaces of higher education, community organizations, even family circles. Although this text will touch on these three areas, I will mostly be speaking from an educational context, with a focus on potential pathways to collective learning that can build capacities for holding painful experiences and conversations. In this text, I will also partly speak from my allotment garden in the South of Rotterdam where I ask how can we learn through and with collective grief?