Ginie Servant-Miklos: on the art of messy dreams, how to realize them, and the journey of making and unmaking oneself in the process

The Human Show: Innovation through Social Science

Ginie Servant-Miklos is an engaged environmental educator with fifteen years of experience in education practice, research, and advocacy. She currently holds an Assistant Professorship in behavioural sciences at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her research and education work focuses on developing innovative pedagogies for societal impact. She developed the Experimental Pedagogics educational design framework, co-founded the Bildung Climate School with Prof. Rutger Engels, and is the author of the best-selling book, Pedagogies of Collapse: A Hopeful Education for the End of the World as We Know It. Ginie is an associate member of the Club of Rome and Senior Fellow of the Comenius Network for educational innovators in the Netherlands. She is the founder and Chair of the Board of the ⁠FairFight Foundation⁠, an organisation that provides girls and women from Zambia, Zimbabwe, and India with the mental and physical benefits of martial arts practice, as well as educational support. Ginie is a vocal activist for sustainability and gender equality, advocating for change through public engagements like TEDx talks, debates, podcasts, and other digital media outlets.

We are pleased to welcome Ginie on this podcast capsule on Radical Imagination. We explore the transformative power of imagination and experiential education in the face of societal and environmental crises. Ginie shares her journey from human rights advocacy to education, emphasizing the need for actionable dreams and imperfect solidarities to create meaningful change. She highlights the role of love, forgiveness, and defiance in education as tools for resilience and empowerment. Ginie also talks about her new book Pedagogies of Collapse. This radically honest, open-access book confronts the reality of collapse, acknowledging the allure of denial and despair while choosing a path of hope. Pedagogies of Collapse presents a compelling, fact-based argument for urgent action but avoids falling into the conventional categories of environmental discourse. The ebook version, A Hopeful Education for the End of the World as We Know It, is available as open access here: Bloomsbury Collections.