Learning Environment / Spaces of Knowledge

The different situations and surroundings in which learning takes places, either physically, socially, or virtually. 

Some of the situations and surroundings can be formal or institutionalised, such as the University, the classroom, the lecture hall, but many are formal and situated, in line with Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s “The Undercommons” p.110 which states: 

“When I think about the way we use the term “study”, it’s talking and walking around with other people, working, dancing, suffering, being a kind of workshop, playing in a band, in a jam session, or old men sitting on a porch, or people working together in a factory. The point of calling it “study” is to mark that the incessant and irreversible intellectuality of these activities is already present.” 

Consensual Questioning and Collective Implementation

17.10.2023, 17.10.23, 18:00 – 20:00

School of Commons Teaching Session: Consensual Questioning and Collective Implementation

Consensual Questioning and Collective Implementation is a lecture and workshop event, during which Pendar Nabipour, a visual artist, independent curator and art educated based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands will introduce possible answers to these questions in relation to his research project Open Source Governance. Find out more

Politics of (dis)assembling

19.06.2023 — 29.06.2023, 19.06.23, 19:30 – 29.06.23, 22:00

Politics of (dis)assembling: Documenting in sketches: Lena Pozdnyakova and PATU

Politics of (dis)assembling on 19.06.2023 with T.J. Demos, Marwa Arsanios, ON/OFF Collective, Patu Politics of (dis)assembling on 29.06.2023 with Jennifer Ponce de Léon, STOP DEPORTATION CENTER BER!, ON/OFF Collective with Zoë Ritts, Patu Find out more

Assembling To Get There: foods, thoughts, and bodies staying together

15.12.2023, 18:30 – 22:00 (CET)

Assembling To Get There: foods, thoughts, and bodies staying together

Assembling to Get There is an event currently being organized at Neuenachbarschaft Moabit as part of the “Extended Kitchen” event series. Lena Pozdnyakova, from the There, there working group, is organizing the evening, featuring performing artists Maddi Fuente Ubani and Cristina Leoni Osion. Find out more

An Ode to “Behind The Scene(s)”

There, there - An Ode to “Behind The Scene(s)”

Towards unfinished projects Read more

FREE UPDATE

02.11.2023, 02.11.23, 18:00 – 20:00

School of Commons Teaching Session: FREE UPDATE

By means of fragmentation, destruction and the reconstitution of well-known figures, themes and strategies of mass media, Bjørn Melhus not only creates possibilities of other interpretations and critical commentaries but also tries to redefine the relationship between mass media and spectators. Find out more

Interdependent Systems, Community Economies in Culture and Education

14.11.2023, 14.11.23, 18:00 – 20:00

School of Commons Teaching Session: Interdependent Systems, Community Economies in Culture and Education

40+ Commoning as a daily practice, with Bianca Elzenbaumer What type of informal economies already exist within forms of learning? How do our interdependencies relate to accessible education? How do we make existing practices of care sustainable in (non-)institutional infrastructures? Find out more

SoC Cohort End of Year, 2023

03.02.2024 — 04.02.2024, 03.02.24, 10:00 – 04.02.24, 23:00

"What Could Possibly Go Right?" Exhibition, Performances, and Workshops by the School of Commons 2023 Cohort

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

Makhandzambili Session Zero: Cave of H(ear)ing

22.10.2023, 22.10.23, 14:30 – 16:30

School of Commons: Makhandzambili Session Zero: Cave of H(ear)ing

This is a hybrid peer-learning seed project that reimagines Southern African natural heritage sites as venues for the sharing of artistic research and practice in virtual and physical spaces. Find out more

A Spoonful of Rest

05.10.2023, 05.10.23, 18:00 – 20:00

School of Commons Teaching Session: A Spoonful of Rest

Experience a journey into relaxation and communal care in ‘A Spoonful of Rest.’ Through the harmonious fusion of poetry, culinary delights, and music, we explore the art of rest and its transformation into a shared practice of nurturing. Find out more

A session on Palestine

31.10.2024, 6pm cet

A session on Palestine - project in/visibility

A session on Palestine with project in/visibility Find out more