Dylan McGarry

Dylan McGarry (PhD) (Pronouns: He, They, Dyl) works across the fields of education, ecology, and the arts. As such, Dyl works with several tentacles touching the world, as an Educational Sociologist, Political Ecologist, multi-media artist, theatre- and film-maker. Dyl has a transdisciplinary PhD in Environmental Education at the Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes University, South Africa. He is the co-founder of the public storytelling foundation Empatheatre and works with public storytelling as a mechanism for healing, empathy, meaning-making and fostering inclusive forms of governance in complex social-ecological entanglements. Their areas of research span a wide spectrum, including transgressive social learning, public pedagogy, theatre-based Research, arts-based research, visual anthropology, legal anthropology, queer eco-pedagogy, post-humanism, new materialism, and critical African feminist approaches to co-engaged research. Dyl is most interested in the profound role of connective aesthetics, social sculpture, and 'making' as essential forms of thinking and theorizing, what he likes to call “meaning ∞ making.