BRIDGES' PROGRESS

This book is an invitation. It is a node within a larger entanglement of collectivities that struggle for social change in universities. We want to challenge the binary inside/outside that the university itself sets up in order to claim a monopoly on “science,” “knowledge,” “truth,” and “research.” We would like to invite alliances with all […]

The last of the multiplier events, dedicated to the public presentation of the BRIDGES Virtual Lab, took place on 16th June in Athens, taking advantage of the organisation of the Feminist and Anti Borders Summer School by the colleagues of the FAC (Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research). As the main act of this event, it […]

The final event of the BRIDGES project is the International Conference “Dismantling Walls, Building Bridges: Feminist Anti-racist Alliances for a Radical Education” which took place on 7th and 8th July in Barcelona. The conference programme was divided into two sessions that occupied the afternoons of each day. On the first day, there was a discussion […]

Following the Multiplier Event in Giessen on the 17th of March, the consortium came together in a hybrid online/offline format for the Transnational Meeting which also took place at the Lokal International. The Transnational Meeting again opened up space to organize the forthcoming tasks and to talk about how the PARs and social movements are […]

One of the BRIDGES Multiplier Events dedicated to present the Virtual Lab took place in Giessen on the 17th of March at Lokal International, a Bar, Event- and Community Location almost entirely run by students of the Justus Liebig University. Due to the current situation of the pandemic in Germany, the event was held as […]

About 30 people gathered at the Friends’ Meeting House in Brighton. After an animated round of introduction, where people discussed their background and their engagement with feminist and antiracist politics, we presented the BRIDGES project, its rationale and how it evolved over the past 3 years. The Virtual Lab was then introduced and explained to […]

Last Friday, March 4th, the conference “Can we decolonize education?” took place in La Bonne (Barcelona), a meeting to collectively reflect on experiences, challenges and anti-racist pedagogical strategies. The event, which was attended by about forty people, was organized by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in collaboration with the domestic workers’ union Sindillar, both BRIDGES’ […]

The project is progressing and by the end of February 2022 the Virtual Lab of the BRIDGES project will be completed. Designed and implemented by the partner Office of Displaced Designers (ODD), this Virtual Lab functions as a digital repository of the project process, activities and results, as well as an open space for project’s […]

On Friday 10 December we launched the BRIDGES course “Building Solidarities: Feminist and Anti-Racist Practices in Higher Education” with an event co-hosted by the Free University of Brighton and the University of Brighton, and coordinated by our coleague Deanna Dadusc. The workshop took place face to face at the Brighthelm Centre and 35 participants from […]

During the fall of 2021, the BRIDGES Course “Inclusion without Discrimination” will end and be publicly presented. This course, which was previously tested at the BRIDGES Summer School, is addressed to current and future higher education trainers and teachers and aims to offer pedagogical tools that help to respond, through anti-racist education, to the challenges […]

From June 29 to July 23, the BRIDGES Online Summer School “Building Solidarities, Feminist and Anti-Racist practices in Higher Education” took place. 32 people from the universities and research centers that are members of the project (UAB, UoB, U. Giessen, FACR) actively participated in the course sessions. After the welcome and general introduction to the […]

A few days ago, on June 29th, the BRIDGES Online Summer School (“Building solidarities. Feminist and anti-racist practices in Higher Education”) started. Until July 15th, we will be intensively working on four different blocks of activities: Block A, dedicated to “Racism and Other forms of Exclusions in Higher Education: A diagnosis of public policies, daily […]

On Monday 14 June (8:30 pm-10:00 pm, Athens time), the colleagues of FAC Research organized the Multiplier Event dedicated to publicly presenting the BRIDGES Toolkit. Originally, this event had to happen in person but due to the Covid restrictions, it was changed to an online format, by Zoom. There, eight of the BRIDGES researchers from […]

In July of this year, the BRIDGES Summer School “Building solidarities. Feminist and Anti-racist Practices in Higher Education” will take place online, from 29th June until 23th July. It will be dedicated to promoting equality, anti-racism and the diversification of knowledge in universities through activism and social participation. Is it possible to decolonize education? How […]

As we already announced in the introduction of our most recent (Q4 2020) Newsletter, the BRIDGES Virtual Lab will be publicly presented by the end of January in the city of Barcelona. The next public presentations in Giessen, Athens and Brighton will take place later, in the next months, as soon as the lockdowns and […]

September 8th, we held an internal training workshop for the entire BRIDGES team, organized and facilitated by the Sindillar colleagues. The workshop, entitled “Constructing activist knowledge”, was dedicated to the methodologies of collective and collaborative work, following the experience of Sindillar facing intersectional oppressions. Starting from two practical exercises where we questioned ourselves about our […]

During the month of October, it is planned to finalize the BRIDGES Toolkit, which provides anti-racist and feminist tools and strategies for addressing and contribute to dismantling  structures of exclusion in Higher Education curricula. It will be useful for any instructor, in any field, at any EU higher education institution. It is also intended for […]

During these last three months, from April to June, we have been working on the development of the Tool Kit. It is already taking shape and we take the opportunity to share some progress with you: each PAR (Participatory Action Research) group proposed a series of concepts that articulate around them their short definitions, extended […]

A few weeks before the Transnational Project Meeting in Giessen (April- June), the host team of the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen made a selection of readings on decolonial feminism, specially dedicated to the educational and knowledge field, in order to be read and prepare the debates that would later take place. We share now this list of […]

From May 7th to 9th 2020, the full BRIDGES team gathered virtually hosted by Giessen University to celebrate our Transnational Project Meeting and to advance and review the contents of the Tool Kit in light of decolonial feminist theories. Wayne Young on ′′ decolonisation is not a metaphor ′′ was at the centre of the debate […]

Along these months, every PAR Group has been thinking about and discussing along two or three fundamental concepts that will later articulate and compose the Toolkit. In this way, every PAR group has been meeting up locally, every 3-4 weeks, to debate and work around their selected concepts in order to collect and identify critical […]

During these two days, we built a common methodological framework based on Participatory Action Research and Narrative Productions, through which the Intellectual Outputs of the project will be produced. As we understand PAR, it is a methodology sustained by the principles of participation, problematization, empowerment, and reflexivity. Each PAR Group (composed of UAB and Sindillar […]