To borrow from the Project title: “what does learning look like in this context? " [School of Commons 2022], a project which focuses on a context in which each participant is as much a learner as much as they are an artist, a musician, a researcher, a writer, a fellow, a founder, a friend - we ask what does learning look like when our focus is on process rather than results, on emotional qualities, on relating to one another, rather than getting a Set. Job. Done, on collective experience over individual gain?
The (un)learner, and what learning looks like in this particular context within SoC, is the collective framing for the School of Commons ISSUES 2022 publication. A theme that wonderfully relates to some of the other key themes and focuses we have been impulsed by, collectively, this year as a cohort: friendship as methodology, “so far”, constant-works-in-process, to just name a few.
The following contributions work separately, yet at the same time weave a collective patch-work, that adds nuance and new perspectives to this collective framing of 'The (Un)Learner'. The following, are a series of fragmented quotes taken from the 'Learning Commons' event in 2022 that further connect to this collective framing and theme. A full, edited transcript of the 'Learning Commons' is included in this publication.
The most heavy part of an artist's practice is the processing - the ways we make sense of researching.
Constant-work-in-process
A public object is still just an approximation of a research practice, sprawling and not to be contained in the artistic object.
Kameelah identifies not as an artist, but as a learner.
An intention to make space to share and continue that learning with others
What have you learned? What have you unlearned?
Being in the company of ideas. Dancing with ideas.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO TOUCH THE EDGE OF AN IDEA AND ALLOW YOU TO FOLLOW MANY PATHS SIMULTANEOUSLY
What does it mean to be a learner in a relationship? What does it mean to be learning?
How I establish relationships in our learning and living practices
Public learning
I never saw myself as an individual, I always saw myself in relation. Friendship as methodology, as learning
School of Commons has a lot of emotional qualities, and that is important to be the learning space that it is.