nurse log university: how education might be repurposed in the context of the metacrisis

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Authors: Nadia Mariyan Smith
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Abstract

A zine-based artistic inquiry that engages contemporary debates on higher education and the metacrisis through Sharon Stein and Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti's metaphor of the nurse log: a fallen tree that sustains future life by decomposing within the forest ecosystem. The zine brings together concepts from decolonial, abolitionist, and relational knowledge. Nurse log university is an invitation to sit with uncertainty, complicity, and possibility together. What grows from here is not predetermined and the seeds we sow now will influence what comes next.

Fields of Study & Subjects

University Challenges and Reforms Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies Critical and Liberation Pedagogy

Publication details

Journal / source
Knowledge Commons (Lakehead University)
Publication date
3 March 2026
Language
EN