Inside the world's first climate change university... in Wales 🏴
“It’s very much an experiment,” says Ben Rawlence, a British writer and co-founder of Black Mountains College. “But that’s what the original Black Mountain was all about — this idea that you can’t effect change in the world unless you’re radical.”
Inheriting the education model of its American predecessor, undergraduates at the world’s first climate change university will learn about “arts, ecology and systems change” mostly outside, with Black Mountains College proudly claiming the Brecon Beacons National Park as its “campus”. Next year’s BA intake will learn the same practical skills for a warmer world, while combining “insights from arts and sciences, political economy and creative and professional practice”.
The university aims to unleash the childlike attitude to learning that “progressively gets forgotten as we move through the education system”, by retraining adults how to learn with their senses. Tutors will pick students up from their accommodation in the morning, pointing out things like “an abundance of moss” as they walk through the fields. Like the former Black Mountain College in the US, the university will have no dedicated sports facilities — but there won’t be much need.
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