Vanessa Andreotti, PhD, talks about how modern education tends to imprint four constitutive denials: 1) The denial of the historical and systemic violence that is necessary for modernity to exist 2) The denial of the limits of the planet 3) The denial of entanglement and interdependence, and 4) The denial of the depth and magnitude of the planetary challenges before us. Modern education is usually associated with the expansion of creativity and the imagination, very rarely we have conversations that problematize how it conditions and limits the ways we see, feel, imagine and relate. This presentation was part of a panel discussion titled "Refuse, Relate, Return: Decolonial practices in process" which took place online on December 3, 2021. The panel was a part of the Conducting Creative Research series, a collaboration between Emily Carr University of Art and Design (ECU) and OCAD University (OCAD U). The series explores themes around responsible conduct in art and design research. The Conducting Creative Research events were made possible with a SRCR Education and Training Support (SETS) Grant from the Secretariat on Responsible Conduct of Research through the Panel on Research Ethics (PRE) and the Panel on Responsible Conduct (PRCR) of Research on behalf of the three federal research granting agencies: The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
