I recently spoke with Leyla Acaroglu on her Why Is It Like That? podcast. Leyla and I knew each other from our days as judges on The New Inventors. She is a leading sustainability and circular economy expert, social scientist, designer and educator driving transformative change toward a regenerative and nature-positive future.
Leyla’s podcast, Why is it Like That?, is a curiosity-based show featuring interviews with expert authors, thought leaders and creative rebels, exploring the counterintuitive aspects of everyday life.
We spent our hour together talking about how narratives of the past affect our understanding of the present. Using the first encounter between Captain Cook and the Dharawal people at Kamay as a way to reframe this moment through an Aboriginal lens, we discussed how story, ceremony and connection to Country carry deep environmental and systems knowledge. The episode explores how two worldviews collided, then and now, what was and is still misunderstood, and why Indigenous knowledge has always been a science of its own, and one we should all embrace.
Listen to the podcast here:
https://leylaacaroglu.com/ep-10-what-makes-indigenous-knowledge-systems-so-timeless-alison-page/
