OOSH artists explore eco-art for ecopedagogical outcomes

Eco-art as a pedagogical practice can help dissolve barriers to nature connection through its imaginative and emotional engagement. For these reasons, it is important to consider creative acts as a valid method for developing understanding and communicating our personal stories of nature, which can help to build ecological understanding. Art making as a practice in and from nature as demonstrated by this study provided an opportunity for the participants to intimately connect with their own nature stories and helped to develop a sense of creative community amongst them, through the sharing of these stories. Creativity and art-making practice is a core element outlined in Freire's original ecopedagogy manifesto. From the outcome of this study, we can see why it should be considered as a valid method to develop a new ecological story between humans and more-than-human worlds.