Glaciers & Tigers Podcast

How does our experience shape our reality? And how does that reality spiral outward to construct our society and our institutions?

The Glaciers and Tigers Podcast features educators, designers, community builders and artists who are shaping our world by creating and curating experiences.

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  • DNS Teacher Training: Learning by Living

    DNS Teacher Training: Learning by Living

    Jul 4, 2026 • 29:55

    A four-year teacher training programme that uses the world as a classroom — from a bus trip through West Africa to communal life in Graz to a hundred-person community in Denmark. The Core Principles DNS (Necessary Teacher Training College) combines experience-based learning, communal living, and student-driven education. The programme grants…

  • Start with humming | Jaka Škapin

    Start with humming | Jaka Škapin

    Jun 19, 2026 • 30:11

    Vocal Improvisation and Regenerative Music Jaka Škapin is a Slovenian vocalist, researcher, and facilitator currently based in London. A conversation about collective vocal improvisation, relationality, and the ancient technologies we keep forgetting. From Classical Choir to Vocal Improviser Jaka’s musical journey moved in 5–7 year cycles: classical choir singing in…

  • Jing-Hong Okorn-Kuo | Stop being nice

    Jing-Hong Okorn-Kuo | Stop being nice

    Jun 8, 2026 •

    A conversation with Jing-Hong Okorn-Kuo, a dance artist from Singapore who splits her time between Asia and Graz, exploring the philosophy of creative vulnerability, the social conditions we must shed to make authentic art, and how movement can excavate the layers within simple gestures. Topics Key Insights Performance Info Silver…

  • Asaf Bachrach | Living together in a broken world

    Asaf Bachrach | Living together in a broken world

    May 7, 2026 • 30:00

    We meet at training course in Slovenia’s flower-filled mountains. In this conversation we are exploring how palliative approaches to care offer alternatives to our curative, fix-it culture — and how this approach can help us navigate the polycrisis.

  • Jadi Carboni | Choreographer (EN)

    Jadi Carboni | Choreographer (EN)

    Apr 23, 2026 •

    Join for a conversation with the Graz-based choreographer Jadi Carboni.  We talk about her relationship to dance and the body. What is contemporary about contemporary dance? What is modern about post-modern dance? What is the role of experience in dance? How did the role of the dancer evolve from an instrument…

  • Wild Care - Verein für soziale Praxis (DE)

    Wild Care – Verein für soziale Praxis (DE)

    Apr 13, 2026 • 30:00

    Ein neues Projekt entsteht Fabio erzählt die Geschichte eines neuen Projekts, das aus einer zentralen Frage geboren wurde: Wie können wir uns als Menschen wirklich begegnen? Wild Care will Räume schaffen, wo Kunst zur Begegnung wird — jenseits von Perfektion und Selbstinszenierung. Philosophische Grundlagen Das Projekt wurzelt in Martin Bubers…

  • Warum, Radio? (DE)

    Warum, Radio? (DE)

    Mar 26, 2026 •

    Eine Sendung mit Gedichten über Selbstzweifel im Community Radio. Eine Sendung mit Fragen über das Sendungsmachen. Eine Sendung.

  • Towards - Centre for Embodied Arts and Transformative Learning (EN)

    Towards – Centre for Embodied Arts and Transformative Learning (EN)

    Mar 13, 2026 • 28:34 minutes

    How do we design a space that alters our reality? In this episode, we travel to Chiang Dao in Northern Thailand to discover Towards—an immersive, transformative, and embodied learning project created by Sasha Dodo, Dolores Dewhurst-Marks, and Fern Sripungwiwat in 2022. Towards is a residency that feels like an immersive…

  • The Outpost | Community Research Center (EN)

    The Outpost | Community Research Center (EN)

    Feb 26, 2026 •

    What can community living look like, and what are the tools that we need for it to function? Miel and Adrian ask this question in their project: The Outpost – a research hub for modern community models in rural Sweden. Everything started with a remarkable place in Sweden—a converted school…

  • Lindy Cats | Swing Dance in Graz (DE)

    Lindy Cats | Swing Dance in Graz (DE)

    Dec 2, 2025 •

    Die Lindy Cats teilen seit über zwölf Jahren Tanz und Kultur aus der Swing-Ära und sind von Wohnzimmer-Treffen zu einer blühenden Community von hunderten Menschen gewachsen. Von ihrer ehrenamtlichen Struktur bis zu ihren Partnerschaften mit lokalen Venues und Jazz-Musikern haben sie etwas Einzigartiges geschaffen: einen zugänglichen, einladenden Raum, wo sich…