Education, Art & Systems Thinking - Christopher Chase & Daniel Wahl in conversation
Channel: Daniel Christian Wahl
Date: 2021-03-08

On February 15th, 2021 I met up with a friend and the co-curator of the @EcologicalConsciousness Facebook page we started on January 2nd, 2018 and that has grown to 416k followers since.  We met through social media and Christopher helped me - a novice at the time - to navigate the FB algorithm maze in ways that keep you out of FB-jail.

In this beautifully sparkly conversations between to people so clearly passionate about many of the same things we cover a lot of ground. ...

(I will add more later, but due to a very busy period I am simply long getting to post this with a full summary right now ... check it out, you can get an idea by the links below. More detail soon!)


About Christopher:
Christopher is an educator, multimedia artist and university professor, living in Japan since the early 1990's. As an undergraduate, he majored in Studio Art, at SUNY Oneonta, in New York state. Chris completed his doctorate in Child & Adolescent Development, at Stanford University's School of Education, in 1993. Over the last 20 years he's built a successful youtube channel, started a blog, and has co-created four large Facebook pages, The Art of Learning, Tao & Zen, Creative Systems Thinking & Ecological Consciousness (with Daniel Christian Wahl). Over the years, Chris has focused much of his attention on using media and the arts to teach Systems Thinking to his Japanese students, as well as the rest of the world, through his social media work.

Some of Christopher's writing:

How Wisdom Grows- Educating Hearts and Minds
https://creativesystemsthinking.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/how-wisdom-grows-educating-hearts-and-minds/

How We Learn to Compartmentalize
https://creativesystemsthinking.wordpress.com/2019/06/08/how-we-learn-to-compartmentalize/ 

Links to people and projects we mention in the conversation:

Sam Brown, artist
https://www.facebook.com/sambrownart

Josephine Wall, artist
https://josephinewall.co.uk

Christopher Chase, art
https://www.artwanted.com/christoph2/gallery/

Eyes of the World, 1977 (multimedia video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQJE79IwjjU

A Year at Mission Hill (10 Part documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/user/ayearatmissionhill/videos