The course focuses on listening as a transformative capacity and experience. As adrienne maree brown comments, “In my experience, healing happens when a place of trauma or pain is given full attention, really listened to.” Underpinning the course is a concern to elaborate listening methodologies and knowledges, understanding how it lends to a range of creative and critical work. This includes considering key questions, such as: In what ways does listening influence understandings of self and other, bodies and things? If listening acts as a work of attention, how might it contribute to (re)shaping attention economies as well as attending to social repair? Is there a connection between listening and planetarity, and how might we elaborate this connection in terms of nurturing kinships across species? Following these lines of inquiry, listening is emphasized as a means of shifting from production to maintenance, from action to reception, enabling ways of connecting …