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Future NaturesFungi, relationships and emancipatory futuresMaymana Arefin is the founder of Fungi Futures, a project learning with fungi to map radical alternative futures.Maymana began Fungi Futures in part due to inspiration from the “wood wide web” which they value as a metaphor for our interconnectedness, our dependence on one another for mutual aid, care and transformation, “I sought to understand how we, as a collective can organise better, hearing the cries of our neighbour to mobilise and manifest webs of support ~ this wasn’t some cute, distant fantasy but a call to action ~ decolonisation is NOT a metaphor”.This episode ch...2024-11-1557 min
Radio Arts CatalystChanging Currents Episode 5: The Spaces We Care forIn this episode we consider care, community and alternative futures.
Changing Currents is a new podcast series exploring climate perspectives and possible futures featuring the voices of artists, growers, activists, local community groups, heritage workers and researchers across South Yorkshire.
In this episode you will hear campaigner and WOC Azadi Collective member Ishah Jawaid and nature guide, writer and community gardener Maymana Arefin. This conversation included exploring a ‘secret garden’ in Rotherham, foraging elderflower and making tea.
This recording took place at Ishah’s parents’ garden in Rotherham.
Sound Design by Ashley Holmes
P...2023-08-0936 min
FarmeramaCultivating Justice: Episode 6Welcome to Cultivating Justice! Our 6-part series in collaboration with Land In Our Names (LION) and Out on the Land (OOTL, part of The Landworker’s Alliance) which weaves together interviews, conversations, music and reflections from Black people, people of colour, trans people, queer people and women, on their relationships with land, growing, and identity.
In the final episode of this series, our producer, Katie Revell, hosts alongside LION’s Sam Siva and OOTL’s Hester Russell, who add their reflections to the pieces throughout the episode. First, psychotherapist and grower Srikanth Narayanan shares their thoughts about the fluid ways in whi...2022-07-311h 00
FarmeramaCultivating Justice: Episode 2Welcome to Cultivating Justice! Our 6-part series in collaboration with Land In Our Names (LION) and Out on the Land (OOTL, part of The Landworker’s Alliance) which weaves together interviews, conversations, music and reflections from Black people, people of colour, trans people, queer people and women, on their relationships with land, growing, and identity.
Episode 2 is hosted by Assistant Producer Nadia Mehdi and Farmerama’s Abby Rose. Woven throughout we are taken to the fields, pots and allotments of the chorus of land-based practitioners. We hear from Maymana Arefin, a community gardener, spoken-word poet, and artist. They talk to us a...2022-07-0343 min
UCL MindsHypot-enthuse: Seb Groh on paeleontology and extinct crocodile relativesIn the latest episode of Hypot-enthuse, Malcolm and Maymana speak with Dr Sebastian Groh, Research Fellow in the Department of Earth Sciences. They discuss Seb's work looking at historic crocodylomorpha, as well as concepts such as macro-evolution, and his work as LGBTQ+ rep for the department, as well as the experiences of being a trans academic.
Hypot-enthuse is a podcast from the Faculty of Mathematical & Physical Sciences at UCL. Each episode features a light-hearted chat with a notable academic, and will examine exciting science topics making news around the world.
Transcript available here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/about-faculty...2021-07-1943 min
UCL MindsHypot-enthuse: Lia Li on optical tweezers and entrepreneurshipIn the latest episode of Hypot-enthuse, Malcolm and Maymana speak with Dr Lia Li, Research Fellow in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and CEO of Zero Point Motion ltd about her varied career so far - including work with lazers, optical sensors, science communication and entrepreneurship, and why you're never going to get a real lightsaber. Find out more on her website at https://www.yingliali.com/ or on twitter at @optolia.
Hypot-enthuse is a podcast from the Faculty of Mathematical & Physical Sciences at UCL. Each episode features a lighthearted chat with a notable academic, and will examine exciting...2021-06-0252 min