Deep Time Walk
摘要
Deep Time Walk (DTW) is an educational activity based on embodied learning approaches combined with story-telling, enabling participants to experience a time dimension of Planet Earth’s evolution and thereby providing new entry points for reflection on our relationship to the Earth. DTW is a space–time metaphor for the 4.6 billion years of the Earth’s existence over a 4.6-km walk, with each meter of the walk equivalent to 1 million years. The most important evolutionary events are told as a story—later called Earth Stations—in which important scientific facts are presented and integrated into short reflective and/or playful activities. The objective is to offer a transformative walk that could provide students with an embodied experience and a new perspective on time, increasing the participants’ sense of belonging to the web of life, and a greater understanding of the systemic nature of the climate and biodiversity crises, as well as increasing hope and active participation in solutions to the current anthropogenic predicament.