{"id":98,"date":"2017-11-09T22:47:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T22:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.dustysheldon.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=98"},"modified":"2017-11-15T15:50:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T15:50:37","slug":"dylan-mcgarry","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/dylan-mcgarry\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan McGarry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Educational sociologist <strong>Dr.<\/strong> <strong>Dylan McGarry<\/strong> is an independent researcher, practitioner, and artist who works trans-disciplinarily in Environmental Education at Rhodes University. His academic work revolves around sustainable rural development and transgressive social environmental learning. His artwork and creative practice is focused on empathy and he uses imagination, listening, and empathy as sculptural materials. He is educational advisor for Earth Junkies, an organization dedicated to enabling and enriching children\u2019s capacities to engage with the natural world and develop ecological literacy skills. In 2017, he collaborated with Neil Coppen on a two-year research and play-making process to create <em>Ulwembu<\/em>. <em>Ulwembu<\/em> (isiZulu for spider web) was an immersive social learning experiment that brought diverse citizens and civil servants into a transformative and transgressive empathetic space to explore the issue of dependent drug-use in KwaZulu Natal. McGarry calls it \u201cempatheatre,\u201d in that it is designed to create an \u201camphitheatre of empathy\u201d for all those involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Educational sociologist Dr. Dylan McGarry is an independent researcher, practitioner, and artist who works trans-disciplinarily in Environmental Education at Rhodes University. His academic work revolves around sustainable rural development and transgressive social environmental learning. His artwork and creative practice is focused on empathy and he uses imagination, listening, and empathy as sculptural materials. He is educational advisor for Earth Junkies, an organization dedicated to enabling and enriching children\u2019s capacities to engage with the natural world and develop ecological literacy skills. In 2017, he collaborated with Neil Coppen on a two-year research and play-making process to create Ulwembu. Ulwembu (isiZulu for spider web) was an immersive social learning experiment that brought diverse citizens and civil servants into a transformative and transgressive empathetic space to explore the issue of dependent drug-use in KwaZulu Natal. McGarry calls it \u201cempatheatre,\u201d in that it is designed to create an \u201camphitheatre of empathy\u201d for all those involved. ","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}