Warm Data in Education - A Conversation with Nora Bateson

This week's episode is a wonderful conversation with Nora Bateson
(https://batesoninstitute.org/nora-bateson/). In my opinion, Nora
is one of the most important thinkers working today to challenge
the dominant paradigm of optimization, separation and
machine-like efficiency that pervades our institutions. She does
so in her own beautiful style and in deep continuity with the
ideas of her father, Gregory Bateson, and her grandfather,
William Bateson, among many others.
Nora's work with the International Bateson Institute
(https://batesoninstitute.org/) brings the fields of biology,
cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and information
technology together into a study of the patterns in ecology of
living systems. She coined the term "Warm Data" and, as you will
hear in our conversation, this was in response to the
disproportionate credibility and authority given to information
derived by decontextualizing. I have had the privilege of working
with Nora and her team to explore what Warm Data means for the
way schooling and education happens. If you would like to find
out more, we are hosting some online sessions in early October
and also visiting schools to run Warm Data Labs with young
people, in partnership with International Baccalaureate.
Nora is the author of Small Arcs of Larger Circles
(https://www.triarchypress.net/small-arcs.html), released by
Triarchy Press, in 2016. Her forthcoming book, Combining, which
she is launching at an event in New York on September 30. You can
find out more about the event here:
https://nysgs.org/event-5402217


In our conversation you can hear Nora read two excerpts from the
book - 'Mama Now' and 'Harvest'.


Nora also wrote, directed and produced the award-winning
documentary, An Ecology of Mind, a portrait of her father,
Gregory. http://www.anecologyofmind.com/


Social Links


LinkedIn: @nora-bateson


Twitter: @NoraBateson