“Belonging for me is an ongoing meditation. It’s an ongoing practice, and it is when I am most connected to what I call the urban indigen to this practice, it’s auto ethnographic. It’s my own personal journey and research and expression.” Dr Dianne Regisford


E199 – Dr Dianne Regisford on Artivism, Belonging and Social Sculpture

Ubuntu


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How do we co-create humanity?
 
“Belonging for me is an ongoing meditation. It’s an ongoing practice, and it is when I am most connected to what I call the urban indigen to this practice, it’s auto ethnographic. It’s my own personal journey and research and expression.” Dr Dianne Regisford
 
In this episode entitled Ubuntu Amisha talks with Dr Dianne Regisford, a dynamic Social Sculpture practitioner, Dianne is invested in regenerative ARTivism for belonging, racial equity and cultural transformation through a social justice lens. Dianne is the founder, visionary and creator of the Evoking Belonging Social Sculpture practices. She designs and stewards inclusive, participatory approaches to belonging through equitable enquiry into power and privilege, racial justice and cultural transformation. This is an innovative approach to socio-cultural co-imagining for a regenerative, equitable, humane and just society.
 
We explore
:: what it means to belong & belonging as a co-creative cultural practice
:: embodiment practices as storytelling tools & tools for evolution
:: how to connect to our innate soul and indigenous knowledge
:: uncertainty & unison
:: Artivism & the evolution of activism into pleasure and joy motivated action
:: the cultural phenomena of Ubuntu & unison
 
“I am African. I do believe that every time I express the word race, I am somehow complicit in the constant affirmation and reaffirmation of an artificially constructed system designed to oppress, marginalise and minorities.” Dr Dianne Regisford

Dr Dianne Regisford, a dynamic Social Sculpture practitioner, Dianne is invested in regenerative ARTivism for belonging, racial equity and cultural transformation through a social justice lens. Dianne is the founder, visionary and creator of the Evoking Belonging Social Sculpture practices. Working with her unique Evoking Belonging Ubuntu Practices, Dianne designs and stewards inclusive, participatory approaches to belonging through equitable enquiry into power and privilege, racial justice and cultural transformation. This is an innovative approach to socio-cultural co-imagining for a regenerative, equitable, humane and just society. Dianne graduated in 2020 as the first black person, in the world, to attain a PhD in Social Sculpture. This accomplishment builds on over 25 years of experience working in the domain of international development across Africa and in the UK. Her current writing and research practice focus explores Indigenous African Diaspora Knowledge Systems. This, with specific reference to ancestral, inter-generational healing and cultural restoration for African heritage communities in the Diaspora.

To connect or work with Dianne , visit dianneregisford.com

To connect or work with Amisha, visit amisha.co.uk


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