Living in Rotterdam
Since 2023, Amy has been part of the leadership team at the School of Commons, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), overseeing the Publishing and Public Program. In 2024, she was appointed Deputy Director.
Amy Gowen is a writer, editor, and researcher, originally from Hereford, UK, now based in Rotterdam, NL.
Her work, which takes shape and form through various forms of publishing, including: writing, radio, editing, and curating, uses the frameworks of commoning, self-organised practices, and alternative ways of working at its core.
As part of her role at SoC she tends to the ‘Making Public’ programme trajectory, translating the processes and practices of the SoC programme into public outputs and publishing instances. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the annual publication ISSUES, and is the programme lead for the annual SoC Assembly which places the practices and processes of SoC into a wider context in collaboration with leading practitioners and thinkers across the fields of alternative education, self-organised practices, commoning, and beyond.
Outside of SoC, Amy is co-founder of the commons-based publishing project HumDrumPress (Rotterdam). She hosts the monthly radio show, Off Margin, on Worm Radio about text that moves off the page, and is part of the core programming team for the International Community Arts Festival (ICAF), Rotterdam.
Open Call: IdeaSquare & School of Commons
05.12.2024 — 12.12.2024
The deadline to reserve a place is e.o.d, 01 November 2024. Find out more
The Digital Search Engine for Art Education
13.11.2023
The Digital Search Engine for Art Education brought together institutions and participants from the independent scene involved in art education and archiving. Find out more
Launch: PODPAST Futures of Arts Education
26.10.2023
Tune in to access time-space zones from both near and far and hear the hottest takes on the presents, pasts, and futures of arts education… Find out more
SoC Gathering, 2024
27.06.2024 — 30.06.2024
Reflecting on the SoC Gathering this past week at Zurich University of the Arts. Find out more
FOOTNOTES 2045
Annotating the Futures of Arts Education: A summer school that imagines, rethinks and shapes the futures of arts education. Find out more
IF IT IS A GARDEN THAT HAS BECOME A WILDERNESS
26.12.2022 — 06.12.2022, 26.11.22, 19:00 – 06.12.22, 18:00
On alternative environments for learning Exhibition, Workshops, Performances and Podium Unveiling the works in progress of the hybrid, multidisciplinary research of SoC’s 2022 fellows and beyond Find out more
Books are Bridges: a workshop with backbonebooks
During the month of April, HumDrum Press had the pleasure of being invited to join a workshop led by backbonebooks as part of PrintRoom Rotterdam's Growing the Archive series. Read more
Fostering Learning Environments for the Future
Composing infrastructures for peer learning and commoning practices within School of Commons Read more
Book: Researching the Researcher, Noticing why it wanders
A collective publication by the 5 READ labs that were part of the School of Commons in 2021. Read more
SoC Cohort End of Year, 2023
03.02.2024 — 04.02.2024, 03.02.24, 10:00 – 04.02.24, 23:00
Exhibition, Performances, and Workshops by the School of Commons 2023 Cohort *All workshops and events are free of charge and open to everyone Find out more
"On Mutual Support" ISSUES Launch, 2023
02.02.2024, 04.02.24, 20:30 – 04.02.24, 23:00
Contributions to the publication encapsulate, through text, audio, film, meme, or other alternative publishing means, the processes, outcomes, questions, and challenges each project has encountered during their time within the SoC programme. Find out more
💙 A Manifesto for Publishing the HumDrum Way 💙
We understand the manifesto as active, growing, lived in and through, alive. Read more
IdeaSquare x SoC
IdeaSquare and School of Commons are collaborating on a series of workshops exploring 'The Future of Collaboration'. Find out more
NEB Talks: On the future(s) of design and maker education
13.07.2023, 13.07.23, 15:00 – 17:00
This event, organized by the Distributed Design Platform, aims to foster the development of the emerging sector of Distributed Design in the European and International discourse while supporting the environment in which emerging talent thrives. Find out more