HEdge Space

The HEdge is a creative interventionist interplay between emancipatory pedagogy-research practices,

the hedge schools of 18th Century Ireland and ecological edge effects.

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At the H-Edge we meet to make social-ecological change as a counter-hegemonic feminist practice to confront oppresive and destructive cultures.

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The hedge Schools were places where people gathered illegally for educational purposes near hedges, rivers, overhanging rocks, in mud huts and chapels as a response to cultural threat (Lyons, 2016). This form of self-organised community education continues to be enacted as an informal learning practice by a diverse range of grassroots groups. Emancipatory practices such as radical adult and community education, community arts and particpatory action research support communities to address issues affecting thier lives to transform the conditions under which they are living.  which critical and feminist raising social-ecological mindfulness - consciousness 

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In ecology, edge effects is the process by which newness and diversity is created by the meeting at the margins of two or more lifeforms, such as how fungi and algae together form lichens (Holmgren; PermaculturePrinciples.com; Haraway, 2016).

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​Edge effects in ecology can reflect creative meetings in the social world such as, the process by which  theory interacts with practice to produce new insight or  action, or how different ideas,  disciplines or materials interact or fuse to create something new. It can also reflect how the two halves of our bodies, the interior and exterior intertwine and engage perceptually with the world, and how people and the different facets of life, the social, ecological, economic, political, cultural, historical interact to create plural realities (Garoian, 2013; Lawrence, 2008; Lawrence, 2012; Merleau-Ponty and Lefort, 1968).

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Edge effects | Knowledge Base (permaculture.org.uk)

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