The Grove welcomes you to join us for a Warm Data Lab to explore What is learning in a rapidly changing world, how do we relearn?

Hosted by Monique Potts and Catherine Donnelley

‘Warm data’ is defined relational information about the way parts of a complex system communicate, learn and ‘live’ together.

Warm Data Labs have been developed as a method to get into the nitty gritty of the interrelationships and interdependencies between different contexts in a complex, constantly changing environment. This lab will seek to tease out the interrelationships between different contexts of learning and create a curiosity and dialogue about the possibilities for the future of learning.

'Thinking in complexity requires an ability to perceive multiple perspectives and contexts. The Warm Data Lab process creates a living kaleidoscope of conversation in which cross-contextual knowing is generated and interdependencies are illuminated.'
Nora Bateson

Developed by Nora Bateson over the last seven years, the Warm Data Lab is offered by certified facilitators to groups interested in practicing and strengthening their collective ability to perceive, discuss and respond effectively to complex or ‘wicked’ issues.

We will use the Warm Data Lab methodology to explore the role of learning and education in a rapidly changing world, and how we relearn new ways of living and working.

Young people in Australia are facing increasingly complex and challenging environments compared with previous generations. These levels of complexity include dealing with climate anxiety, social media and uncertain job futures. Young people in Australian communities are experiencing unprecedented levels of mental health risks and challenges. Research from Mission Australia and the Black Dog Institute found one in four young people are at risk of serious mental illness and these numbers are growing. Young women and indigenous young people are at even higher risk.

New learning experiences and environments are needed to provide young people with the personal and collective resilience and capabilities to survive and thrive in these increasingly challenging and complex future scenarios. As a community how do we learn new ways. What does it mean to ‘decolonise’ learning?

As individuals in community, we invite you to collectively explore our agency within the systems that we live. It is difficult for educational and health care institutions to respond to this crisis, partly due to the complexity of the challenge and their limited capacity to respond within the jurisdiction of their existing protocols and specialisations.

It is impossible to reduce the challenge down to one specialisation or part of the system that can be changed or ‘fixed’. Instead we need new methods to explore and understand this complexity by surfacing the relationships between the many different contexts impacting the situation.

We invite you to join us to experiment in our Warm Data Lab

Wednesday 27th November 4.00 for a 4.30 start until 6.30

The Ideas Space 2
Darling Square Library
The Exchange
Level 1, 1 Little Pier St
Haymarket
(Entry from Darling Square upstairs around outside of building or lift)

We may also go for a meal afterwards in Darling Square if you want to continue the conversation

$25 waged

$15 concession/unwaged