Ways and Workings

W&W's is a methodology developed by School of Commons which assembles the various themes, methods, and environments that are essential to spaces of learning and knowledge, but which are often overlooked, unacknowledged or sit outside of typical “ways of working”.

W&W serves as a navigational tool that connects various sites of work, practice, and research, forming a broad, alternative, and multidimensional directory of collaborative efforts, and how we work within and around systems. This approach is typically more informal, against-the-grain or alternative in their approach.

Examples range from “procrastination” to “doodling”, to “organised time management”, to “publishing” to “deep hanging out”. No Way & Working is too formal or informal, intellectual or based from lived, daily experience.

W&W function as navigational tools that connect various sites of work, practice and research, to create a broad and alternative, multidimensional directory of how we work together, and how we work within and around systems. They are typically more informal, against-the-grain or alternative in their approach.

Open Circuits - a play and read session on explorative ways of knowing

08.10.2023, 08.10.23, 15:00 – 18:00

Open Circuits - a play and read session on explorative ways of knowing Hosted by Eleonora and Muj

Hosted by Eleonora and Muj Please register via their DM @imujabd and @eleonoratoniolo. Find out more

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 Line is Not Dead—It is Simply Floating

There, there The Line is Not Dead—It is Simply Floating

'My greatest fear is to die by drowning.' Read more

SoC x SACO: Ways and Workings

22.09.2023, 22.09.23, 15:00 – 16:30

SoC x SACO: Ways and Workings

An introduction, by Dagmara Wyskiel, to the International Biennial of Contemporary Art, SACO, followed by an in-conversation with Marea Hildebrand, Founder of SoC. Find out more

Practical Archives: Navigating Artistic Documentation in a Mundane World

Practical Archives: Navigating Artistic Documentation in a Mundane World

Since the middle of the last century, many efforts have been put into dissolving the distinction between artworks and documents. The liminal space that these practices unravel opens up a debate on productions, materials, and context surrounding such artistic inquiries. Read more

Alt Shift Festival: Zula

01.08.2024, Kunst in der Natur, Austria

Zula: A Ways and Working Experiment Facilitated by Chantelle Lue  (Image ‘thought amplifier’ sourced via https://stoppingoffplace.blogspot.com/2010/10/thought-amplifier.html)

A Ways and Working Experiment facilitated by Chantelle Lue Find out more

FOOTNOTES 2045

FOOTNOTES 2045: Annotating the Futures of Arts Education

Annotating the Futures of Arts Education: A summer school that imagines, rethinks and shapes the futures of arts education. Find out more

An Ode to “Behind The Scene(s)”

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

Towards unfinished projects Read more

Hybrid Tools for Transdisciplinarity

On Mutual Support

IdeaSquare x SoC

IdeaSquare and School of Commons are collaborating on a series of workshops exploring 'The Future of Collaboration'. Find out more