Welcome!

+++ A summary of the CareLab’s activities between 2021-2023 are published in this book chapter! +++

Disterheft, A. (2024). Nurturing a Caring University: Exploring Inner and Outer Sustainability for Transformative Change in Higher Education. In F. Rotondo, L. Giovanelli, & R. Lozano (Eds.), Sustainability in Higher Education: Strategies, Performance and Future Challenges (pp. 27–51). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54026-4_2

Linking care with sustainability

This lab is designed to be a space for experimentation and co-creation. Dedicated to help restoring the balance of our planet, we want to focus on how to take care of inner and outer sustainability.

This website shall serve to accompany the emergence of transformative learning spaces in sustainability related research activities.

"Care is a species activity that includes everything we do to maintain, continue and repair our "world" so that we can live in as well as possible. That would include our bodies, ourselves and the environment, all of which we seek to interweave in a complex, life-sustaining web."

Joan Tronto 
(in: Caring Democracy, 2015, p.19)

About us

We are enthusiastic researchers in the field of sustainability, education and responsible consumption currently working in the Lisbon metropolitan area. With our research activities, we aim to provide new entry points for reflection and for caring practices in academia and daily life.

Contact

Antje Disterheft
Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa
Av. Prof. Aníbal Bettencourt 9
1600-189 Lisbon
Portugal
email: antje.disterheft@ics.ulisboa.pt