Publications

Spanning 25+ years, this selection of publications includes journal articles and book chapters, covering topics that include: ecological arts practices, education for capable futures, decolonial research, transdisciplinarity and integral critical systems.
Talk in the Park

an inquiry into culture and creativity

Seeking An Ecological Arts Practice

David Haley contribution to TNOC The Harrisons Roundtable

Decolonising Regional Perspectives for Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Decolonising Regional Perspectives for Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Storying Our World

David Haley – Comics – TNoC Roundtable

Yield: art gives way to life

I recently explained that for me, art was never a career option

Unreal Estate

A Dialogue with Pigeons

Four of Many Stories

Maybe… ‘getting people’s attention’ is not the most important issue?

A Story of Future’s Venture

David Haley – Contribution to the FVF Book…

A CRITICAL INQUIRY INTO THE VALUE OF SYSTEMS THINKING IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 CRISIS

The COVID-19 pandemic offers an historic precedent to review and challenge the values of
social, economic, environmental, and cultural belief systems.

Metapoiesis: art that yields to life

Writing this text gave me the opportunity to assemble ideas that I have been working
on for over thirty years, some of which were initiated by Helen and Newton

Dialogue with Plants

Inspired by Vaughn Bell’s Plantscapes at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – David Haley 2021

Going Beyond Earthly

plant seeds in the ground
compost continues to grow
apple falls to earth

World Water Lore

In 1998 I co-founded a research group, ‘Water and Wellbeing’, that brought water to arts in healthcare and placed water at the centre of ecology, climate chaos and biodiversity

A Question of Values

art, ecology and the natural order of things, poetics of now a time of uncertainty now, being the flow

Unconventional Educational Approaches

The text critically reflects on the UN Sustainable Development Goals and focuses on SDG4: Ensure inclusive and equitable
quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities

A Walk on the Wild Side

This article takes the reader for a stroll through a programme of ecological artsled, performance-based research.

Art as destruction

‘Destruction and creation’, ‘creative destruction’, create and destroy; there are differences between these terms and this essay inquires into those differences

Over Time: the art of transformation

Over time, all life comes into being and goes out of being. Over time, people come into the world and leave the world.

The Poetics of Heritage

This paper argues that heritage is what contemporary culture makes of history and that this may distort our ability to face
future realities.