This series aims to facilitate sessions with activists, scholars, researchers, mobilisers, practitioners across the world who have engaged on exploring systemic alternatives to the dominant regimes, contesting its roots in capitalist, patriarchal, racist, statist, and anthropocentric forces. The conversations aim to collectively explore with a range of initiatives a possibility of a just, life-centred and respectful transition into the future. Importantly to explore not only what can be done, but also the tough question of how, and by whom? And where possible, to make the discussion relevant to the current crisis.
The Global TapestryThe weaving of networks of Alternatives of AlternativesAre activities and initiatives, concepts, worldviews, or action proposals by collectives, groups, organizations, communities, or social movements challenging and replacing the dominant system that perpetuates inequality, exploitation, and unsustainabiity. In the GTA we focus primarily on what we call "radical or transformative alternatives", which we define as initiatives that are attempting to break with the dominant system and take paths towards direct and radical forms of political and economic democracy, localised self-reliance, social justice and equity, cultural and knowledge diversity, and ecological resilience. Their locus is neither the State nor the capitalist economy. They are advancing in the process of dismantling most forms of hierarchies, assuming the principles of sufficiency, autonomy, non-violence, justice and equality, solidarity, and the caring of life and the Earth. They do this in an integral way, not limited to a single aspect of life. Although such initiatives may have some kind of link with capitalist markets and the State, they prioritize their autonomy to avoid significant dependency on them and tend to reduce, as much as possible, any relationship with them. has been established to support and facilitate the sharing of learning and experiences in the development and practice of radical alternatives. As a global initiative, we see a webinar series as one means of connecting people across time and space.
This series, organized by the Global Tapestry of Alternatives during 2021, bringing together movements, communities, and initiatives from different regions of the world to reflect on how they confronted the COVID-19 crisis from below. Across diverse contexts, these sessions explore collective responses rooted in solidarity, care, self-determination, and grassroots organization, highlighting how communities have resisted extractive and exclusionary systems while nurturing pathways of recovery and re-existence. Rather than returning to a “new normal,” the series foregrounds plural, lived alternatives that reimagine ways of learning, governing, producing, and sustaining life in times of profound crisis.
This webinar series explores learning as a collective, political, and transformative practice emerging from movements, communities, and territories around the world. Co-organized by networks and initiatives committed to systemic change, the series brings together diverse experiences in alternative education, radical pedagogy, community learning, and knowledge production beyond dominant institutional frameworks. Across its sessions, the webinars invite participants to reflect on how learning can nurture autonomy, care, solidarity, and ecological responsibility, while opening pathways toward pluriversal futures grounded in lived practice and shared struggle.
This webinar series is co-organised by Ecoversities, Educere Alliance, Global Tapestry of Alternatives, PeDAGoG, Radical Ecological Democracy, The Alternatives Project and Wellbeing Economy Alliance.
This webinar series is co-organised by GTAGlobal Tapestry of Alternatives and Kalpavriksh and explores the Climate change fiction topic. It has come to the fore in recent times as an offshoot of science/speculative fiction, as a way of coming to terms with the reality of global warming and climate change and the likely repercussions for vulnerable species and communities most likely to be affected in the near future. As extrapolations from current trends, such imaginative responses have offered a significant critique of techno-science and the dominant development paradigm and opened out conceptual alternatives and pathways to transformation.
This webinar series is co-organised by GTA and Kalpavriksh, creative expressions featuring the more-than-human; people connecting to other species and the rest of nature in spiritual, artistic, and visceral ways. This series will be focusing primarily on the voices from the global south. Many such expressions in the global north are already well known and have plenty of space for exposure. Through this series, we would like to decenter that exploration and see how writers, artists, researchers, activists are exploring these dimensions from a decolonial, indigenous, and justice perspective. This series hopes that we can collectively unravel tools for modern times that can help us rekindle our relationship with the rest of nature in meaningful ways.
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GTA organized a series of 3 dialogue sessions among Indigenous peoples and other local communities that are practicing Radical Democracy, Autonomy, and Self-Determination. This is in preparation for a global gathering of such communities to be held in February 2025. The three regional dialogues, one a month, will focus on the Global South: Asia, Latin America and Africa.
This webinar series seeks to critically examine the socioecological implications of the global energy transition by exploring its local manifestations across diverse regions of the world. It aims to highlight not only the conflicts and injustices emerging from this process but also the community-based alternatives and plural pathways that challenge extractivist development and propose truly sustainable and just ways of inhabiting the planet.
This webinar series is organised by the Energy and Alternatives thematic group of the GTA.
This is a two-session webinar that invites participants into embodied, relational, and intergenerational ways of knowing in times of deep ecological, social, and spiritual crisis. Across these conversations, we explore how colonial modernity has shaped not only our institutions and territories, but also our bodies, senses, and relationships across generations. Through practices of bodily decolonization, healing, and Earth-connected wisdom, alongside reflections on intergenerational learning and sense-making, these sessions open spaces to reclaim wholeness, restore collective memory, and weave ancestral knowledge with the lived experiences and creativity of younger generations. Together, they offer pathways to re-root learning, care, and political imagination in the body, in community, and in the ongoing work of re-existence.
This webinar series is organised by the Learning and Education thematic group of the GTA.