Conference & Workshops: Architectures of Education
Architectures of Education is a two-day programme with presentations, screenings, keynotes and workshops seeking to reflect on cultures and architectures of education today, and speculate about what futures may lay on the horizons of knowledge production.
Throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century, as pedagogical ideals change, so have their architectural form. The spatial organisation of learning is a field of design that includes the positioning of bodies, the texture and colour of surfaces, the proportionality of objects, programmatic offerings, time scheduling, and beyond. Similarly, learning can be seen as a subject of design, as the process of crafting of minds and characters. With the advancement not just of new learning models but new learning technologies, the classroom and education of tomorrow may not look like how it did today.
The event brings together some of the brightest thinkers and practitioners investigating the relationship between architecture and cultures of education today. The conference is complemented by an online issue with contributions from the speakers, crossposted on e-flux Architecture and The Contemporary Journal, the digital strand of the Public Programmes and Research at Nottingham Contemporary.
Participants include: Ramon Amaro, Sarah Amsler, Kehinde Andrews, Aoife Donnelly and Kristin Trommler, Tom Holert, Anna-Maria Meister, Irit Rogoff, ruangrupa (farid rakun), Ho Rui An, Ola Uduku and Mary Vaughan Johnson
In collaboration with Nottingham Trent University, University of Nottingham, Kingston University and e-flux Architecture.
We have a fully accessible building with lift access on all floors and Changing Places toilets. Click here for more detailed access information, or please contact us in advance of your visit on 0115 948 9750 if you would like to talk through your requirements.
Friday, November 8
Learning Structures
2–3:30pm Tom Holert and Anna-Maria Meister
3:30–5pm Aoife Donnelly and Kristin Trommler
6:30–8.30pm Keynote: Irit Rogoff
Saturday, November
Education Otherwise
12–1:30pm Kehinde Andrews and Ola Uduku
2:30–3:45pm Ramon Amaro
3:45–4:45pm Ho Rui An
5–7pm Keynote: Mary Vaughan Johnson
Workshops
Please note these workshops are two or three days long, please make sure you are available on all of the dates for the workshop you wish to attend. As the dates and timings of the workshops overlap, it is not possible to attend both workshops.
Workshop: Collectivism in space - Gudskul Ekosistem
ruangrupa
Sat 9 Nov, 10–11am
This workshop explores and expands on the Gudskul method, an informal school on collectivism and ecosystem building launched by ruangrupa, together with Serrum and Grafis Huru Hara, in Jakarta (2018). Collectivity becomes the site from where to reinvent situated practices, networks of solidarities, and sustainability, both conceptual and financial. ruangrupa is a contemporary art organization founded in 2000 by a group of artists in Jakarta. In Indonesian, ruang means “space”, and rupa stands for “visual” or “form”.
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ruangrupa is a contemporary art organization founded in 2000 by a group of artists in Jakarta. As a nonprofit organization, it works to advance art ideas in urban context and the broad scope of culture through exhibitions, festivals, art laboratory, workshops, researches and book, magazine, and online journal publications. ruangrupa is the artistic director of document 15 (Kassel, 2022). Member of ruangrupa, farid rakun is trained as an architect (B.Arch from Universitas Indonesia and M.Arch from Canbrook Academy of Art). A visiting lecturer in the Architecture Department of Universitas Indonesia, he is also a part of the artists’ collective ruangrupa, with whom he co-curated TRANSaction: Sonsbeek 2016 in Arnhem, NL. As a practitioner, he has collaborated with various international institutions such as Centre Pompidou, La Biennale di Venezia, MMCA Seoul, Sharjah Biennial, Bienal de Sao Paulo, Harun Farocki Institut, Dutch Art Institute (DAI), Creative Time, Haute école d'art et de design (HEAD) Genève, and basis voor actuele kunst (BAK). He has worked for Jakarta Biennale in different capacities since 2013 and currently serves as its interim director.
Workshop: Educating hope otherwise
Sarah Amsler
Thu 7 Nov, 3–6pm: Fri 8 Nov, 10am–1pm; Sat 9 Nov, 10–11am
This workshop explores the desire for educational futures beyond the norms of contemporary society. What kinds of learning can animate collective capacities to move beyond what is given as possible in contemporary society? How can we devise ways of knowing and being that gesture towards different futures together? In what ways might prevailing modes of hope and utopian practice reproduce unsustainable, unjust and violent relations of power between ourselves, other beings and the earth? Educating Hopes Otherwise creates a space which critically nurture the education of this desire.
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Sarah Amsler is an educator who researches and teaches about the politics of knowledge, education and hope as dimensions of movements for social and global justice. This work includes theoretical and experimental inquiries into affective and relational pedagogies of being and becoming otherwise; methods for working with expanded forms of reality that include absent and emergent possibilities; and radical educational responses to social and civilizational crisis. She is an Associate Professor in Education at the University of Nottingham and a member of the Women on the Verge and Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collectives.
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Conference & Workshops: Architectures of EducationDates:
8 Nov 2019 – 9 Nov 2019Supported by:
