Gathering knowledge in the gaps between our teeth
After organizing a week-long workshop in August of 2023 titled A New School, A Summer School – (Re)imagining Learning Environments, bringing together (former) students from 12 different art academies with whom we tested a learning utopia; and questioned how art academies can become a more open, diverse and solidary place; but also examined what role us students can and want to play within this transformational process, we had to realize that – among many other things – with the implementation of the summer school we reproduced a capitalist idea of productivity. This mainly manifested in a full programme with lots of input and few spaces for anything unplanned, conflicts or breaks. During the summer school, particularly meals represented gaps in the programme. Therefore, we invited the workshop participants to a shared meal and digestion that served as a basis to reflect their relationship to productivity within self organized learning environments or educational spaces in general. What spatial and social conditions do we need to digest the contents served? How long does a break need to be before our appetite for something new rises again? How can we trust in the gaps, cracks, breaks and moments of uncertainty? In this multi-sensory exchange format we used airy textures, cracked surfaces, ambivalent flavors and cracking noises as an invitation to think about spaces of possibility created by gaps in our practices.
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organised by: Lu Herbst, Lucie Jo Knilli, Charlotte Perka, Lioba Wachtel
in person Workshop during the Conference Learnings/Unlearnings: Environmental Pedagogies, Play, Policies, and Spatial Design (September 5th – 7th, 2024) organized by KTH School of Architecture and Konstfack – University of Arts, Crafts and Design, with Färgfabriken
location: Färgfabriken (Stockholm, SE)
language: English
Gathering knowledge in the gaps between our teeth
After organizing a week-long workshop in August of 2023 titled A New School, A Summer School – (Re)imagining Learning Environments, bringing together (former) students from 12 different art academies with whom we tested a learning utopia; and questioned how art academies can become a more open, diverse and solidary place; but also examined what role us students can and want to play within this transformational process, we had to realize that – among many other things – with the implementation of the summer school we reproduced a capitalist idea of productivity. This mainly manifested in a full programme with lots of input and few spaces for anything unplanned, conflicts or breaks. During the summer school, particularly meals represented gaps in the programme. Therefore, we invited the workshop participants to a shared meal and digestion that served as a basis to reflect their relationship to productivity within self organized learning environments or educational spaces in general. What spatial and social conditions do we need to digest the contents served? How long does a break need to be before our appetite for something new rises again? How can we trust in the gaps, cracks, breaks and moments of uncertainty? In this multi-sensory exchange format we used airy textures, cracked surfaces, ambivalent flavors and cracking noises as an invitation to think about spaces of possibility created by gaps in our practices.
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organised by: Lu Herbst, Lucie Jo Knilli, Charlotte Perka, Lioba Wachtel
in person Workshop during the Conference Learnings/Unlearnings: Environmental Pedagogies, Play, Policies, and Spatial Design (September 5th – 7th, 2024) organized by KTH School of Architecture and Konstfack – University of Arts, Crafts and Design, with Färgfabriken
location: Färgfabriken (Stockholm, SE)
language: English
