How does our experience shape our reality? And how does that reality spiral outward to construct our society and our institutions?The Glaciers and Tigers Podcast features educators, designers, community builders and artists who are shaping our world by creating and curating experiences.
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A four-year teacher training programme that uses the world as a classroom — from a bus trip through West Africa to communal life in Graz to a hundred-person community in Denmark. The Core Principles DNS (Necessary Teacher Training College) combines experience-based learning, communal living, and student-driven education. The programme grants an academically accredited diploma from a university in Mozambique — a deliberate choice that reflects its decolonial approach to knowledge and education. Year One: A 12-Metre Bus to Guinea-Bissau The first year begins with an extraordinary project: 13 stu
Vocal Improvisation and Regenerative Music Jaka Škapin is a Slovenian vocalist, researcher, and facilitator currently based in London. A conversation about collective vocal improvisation, relationality, and the ancient technologies we keep forgetting. From Classical Choir to Vocal Improviser Jaka's musical journey moved in 5–7 year cycles: classical choir singing in Slovenia, music studies in London, and then a turn toward free vocal improvisation — sparked by a Facebook ad for a voice improvisation course. He went deep into the American tradition around Bobby McFerrin, studied with Meredith M
A conversation with Jing-Hong Okorn-Kuo, a dance artist from Singapore who splits her time between Asia and Graz, exploring the philosophy of creative vulnerability, the social conditions we must shed to make authentic art, and how movement can excavate the layers within simple gestures. Topics [00:00–02:00] Meeting through Movement: Jing Hong introduces her transnational practice and a recent "Makers Lab" workshop, where she provoked participants to "stop being nice to each other". [02:00–08:00] Shedding Social Conditions: The philosophy behind accessing the "not nice" aspects of ourselves in
A conversation with Asaf Bachrach, recorded in Slovenia's flower-filled mountains. We meet at training course hosted by Moave and funded by the European Union, where we work on approaches for bringing somatic practices into the world in different way. In this conversation we are exploring how palliative approaches to care offer alternatives to our curative, fix-it culture — and how this approach can help us navigate the polycrisis. Guest Asaf Bachrach is a cognitive neuroscientist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), a somatic dancer and teacher, and is involved in col
Join for a conversation with the Graz-based choreographer Jadi Carboni. We talk about her relationship to dance and the body. What is contemporary about contemporary dance? What is modern about post-modern dance? What is the role of experience in dance? How did the role of the dancer evolve from an instrument to a sensing, living, feeling human being? What is the role of experience in dance from the point of view of a dancer, a choreographer and the audience? How to bridge these gaps? Do we need to? Jadi is now working on an inclusive, collaborative dance piece titled "Shadows of Freedom" whic
Ein neues Projekt entsteht Fabio erzählt die Geschichte eines neuen Projekts, das aus einer zentralen Frage geboren wurde: Wie können wir uns als Menschen wirklich begegnen? Wild Care will Räume schaffen, wo Kunst zur Begegnung wird — jenseits von Perfektion und Selbstinszenierung. Philosophische Grundlagen Das Projekt wurzelt in Martin Bubers Philosophie des "Ich und Du" versus "Ich und Es" — der Unterschied zwischen echter Begegnung und dem Reduzieren anderer auf Objekte oder Werkzeuge. Zentral ist das Konzept der Mutuality (Gemeinschaftlichkeit): das aktive Schätzen und Teilen dessen, was u
Eine Sendung mit Gedichten über Selbstzweifel im Community Radio. Eine Sendung mit Fragen über das Sendungsmachen. Eine Sendung.
How do we design a space that alters our reality? In this episode, we travel to Chiang Dao in Northern Thailand to discover Towards—an immersive, transformative, and embodied learning project created by Sasha Dodo, Dolores Dewhurst-Marks, and Fern Sripungwiwat in 2022. Towards is a residency that feels like an immersive piece of art where the pristine natural environment and the people within it co-create a space for learning and expression unlike anything I have ever seen. The shift in reality is immediate. Normally, I might write two poems in a month. Here, I wrote five in a single day. I si
What can community living look like, and what are the tools that we need for it to function? Miel and Adrian ask this question in their project: The Outpost - a research hub for modern community models in rural Sweden. Everything started with a remarkable place in Sweden—a converted school situated within a 10-meter-high theater (yes, really), overlooking a remote lake. At this place the vision to create a physical think tank where people can experience community, solve practical problems together, and develop open-source blueprints for resilient local communities is now taking shape. In this
Die Lindy Cats teilen seit über zwölf Jahren Tanz und Kultur aus der Swing-Ära und sind von Wohnzimmer-Treffen zu einer blühenden Community von hunderten Menschen gewachsen. Von ihrer ehrenamtlichen Struktur bis zu ihren Partnerschaften mit lokalen Venues und Jazz-Musikern haben sie etwas Einzigartiges geschaffen: einen zugänglichen, einladenden Raum, wo sich Menschen jeden Alters und Könnens im Tanz und der Improvisation begegnen können. Wir erkunden die Wurzeln des Lindy Hop im Harlem der 1930er, seine Verbindung zur Jazz-Musik und afrikanischen Tanztradition, und warum diese improvisatorisc
