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Hace 3 días · Although he populates the medical and public health literature, discourse remains sparse about how Illich might contribute to key conversations in public health today. In this article, I explore Illich’s potential contributions to modern public health through one of his seminal works, Tools for Conviviality.
Hace 5 días · The experimental course 'Non-Western Technologies for the Good Life' (November 2023 – May 2024) celebrates as its starting point the anniversary of 50 years since the publication of Tools for Conviviality, considering that Ivan Illich’s call is as relevant as ever.
Hace 5 días · We will consider the selection of creative activities, timescales, and processes as we go, inspired by Bion’s ‘containers’ and Illich’s ‘Tools for Conviviality’ (amongst others). This draws on and extends educators existing skills in differentiation and adaptive planning, applying them specifically to creative writing.
Hace 2 días · Conversation can be a vehicle for human flourishing, with its ability to invite expression, generate and translate ideas, and build enduring relationships. On the other hand, conversation can be filled with the rancor so prevalent in our media and civic arenas. While unconscious bias, conversation-fears and time-pressures may lead us to prefer the act of fleeing over engaging, certain ways of ...
Hace 3 días · Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich. A book about the proper use of technology. "Convivial tools are those which give each person who uses them the greatest opportunity to enrich the environment with the fruits of his or her vision.
Hace 3 días · Through this, coexistence is reconnected with its “transformative roots” in conviviality (Fiasco and Massarella, 2022): if coexistence implies living with troublesome nonhuman natures despite the associated conflicts and costs (Martin et al., 2021), we might then conceptualize conviviality as co-flourishing, in which sustainable rural livelihoods and wildlife conservation each provides the ...
Hace 5 días · Sacasas recently published a list of 41 questions we should ask of the technologies and tools that shape our lives. What I loved about these questions is how they invite us to think not just about technologies, but about ourselves, and how we act and what we want and what, in the end, we truly value.
