Workshop

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

Lunchtable – Learning in Island Ecologies

17.04.2020, 17.04.20, 12:00 – 14:00

Playthrough Island Forge

We will first meet on zoom and then go on an exploration together on island forge. ~Please download the game and java player beforehand and create your avatar. Looking forward to island hopping with u! Find out more

In-progress co/living (hybrid event)

04.02.2024, 04.02.24, 14:00 – 15:00

School of Commons: In-progress co/living workshop

The “Co/living: Points of Entry” project will do a short interactive presentation on the knowledges, perspectives and practices for shared living environments, which they gathered from conversations, workshops, and other experiences throughout their research in the 2023 School of Commons cohort. Find out more

Cuando los subalternos entran en el museo: desobediencia epistémica y crítica institucional.a institucional

29.10.2023

This text by Paul Preciado was undertranslated by the second year students of deFine Art department from the Willem de Kooning Academy as part of a theory class.

This text by Paul Preciado was undertranslated by the second year students of deFine Art department from the Willem de Kooning Academy as part of a theory class. Find out more

👄 Somatic Writing Week

28.06.2021 — 04.07.2021

Somatic Writing Week - Workshop - Band of Burnouts

From 28th June – 4th July, we will be gathering with our scholarship receivers for a week of somatic writing workshops, beginning with the Home School’s REGENERATION: (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals for New Growth with CA Conrad. Find out more

How to do Nothing by Dharmendra Prasad

04.12.2020, 04.12.20, 15:00 – 16:30

How to do Nothing – A workshop by Dharmendra Prasad

Dharmendra and Tara have developed a workshop on how to do nothing in collaboration with Do Nothing Curating. The participants will experiment with doing nothing, toiling, and waiting – a continuation in practices of locality that lay ground to Dharmendra’s artistic work. Find out more

Badger and Snake!

30.08.2020, 30.08.20, 18:00

copyright: {F_x Office}: Elza Sile & Ilona Isabel Stutz

R/R invites the SOC community for a workshop/game that aims to investigate and discuss these polemical ideas in practice. Find out more

Writing letters to/from choreographical elements

04.02.2024, 04.02.24, 11:00 – 12:00

School of Commons: Writing letters to/from choreographical elements - workshop by Lina Zeller

My main interest in practical/theoretical research is related to the body, the movements and the studies that deal with Choreographic Composition. Find out more

Radical undertranslation

22.09.2023, 22.09.23, 11:00 – 12:00

Radical undertranslation workshop by decolonial (re)mediators

During the intensive weekend of School of Commons, decolonial (re)mediators will perform a collective “undertranslation” of Barranquilla 2132 by José Antonio Osorio Lizarazo, a colombian science fiction book first published in 1932. Find out more

Dancing with the Unknown

17.12.2021, 17.12.21, 19:30 -22:00

a collaboration between Poetic Pedagogies and House of Transformation

What is your relationship to the unknown? What can you learn from connecting to your unconscious? Find out more

Hybrid tools for transdisciplinarity, collective sharing

03.02.2024, 03.02.24, 15:00 – 03.02.24, 16:00

School of Commons event - Hybrid tools for transdisciplinarity – collective sharing workshop with Sarah Drapeau

By inviting you into the co-creation of a brave space and by activating tools to facilitate discussion, like mapping in space, and embodied tools – I propose a moment to make space for sharing our experiences, our questions, our strengths, our tools, our intuitions, our skills, our fears, our needs, our challenges. Find out more

Open Open Call

08.12.2021, 08.12.21, 18:00-19:00

Eligibility Criteria (and beyond) is running a collective writing workshop called Open Open Call.

Eligibility Criteria (and beyond) is running a collective writing workshop called Open Open Call. In this workshop, we will collectively write a call for participation with one criterion in mind: anyone can apply. Find out more

Beyond Prediction: Data reflections ​​from me to us

09.06.2022, 09.06.22, 15:30* duration 2H (including a short break)

Community Data Practices Workshop: This workshop is part of the Weizenbaum Conference) Kit Kuksenok, Christel De Maeyer, and Minha Lee. It incorporates the activities, prompts, and methods under  investigation in the Safety in Numbers project.

This workshop is part of the Weizenbaum Conference) Kit Kuksenok, Christel De Maeyer, and Minha Lee. It incorporates the activities, prompts, and methods under investigation in the Safety in Numbers project. Find out more

Conspiratorial Bleed: Worlding workshop for more than one voice*

17.09.2021 — 18.09.2021, 17.09.21, 17:00 – 18.09.21, 10:00

Conspiratorial Bleed: Worlding workshop for more than one voice*

"Everything not saved will be lost" — Nintendo / The End Games Find out more

Meme-tivism

30.03.2024, 14:00-16:00 (GMT)

Memetivism workshop

Explore memes as an engaging medium to communicate imbalances of power within data & AI practices. Find out more

Open Call: 'Walking an Ontological Turn'

07.02.2025, 10.00-16.00 CET

Open Call: 'Walking an Ontological Turn'

Open to: ZHdK and SOC only Workshop led by Koenraad Hinnekint, LUCA School of Arts Detailed information will be sent out after registration Find out more

Love & Solidarity Workshop

21.09.2023, 21.09.23, 12:00 – 15:30

Open Sourcing Love: Love & Solidarity Workshop

A healing letter-writing practice brought to Berlin by the Open Sourcing Love with the support of the There, there working group aims to express solidarity and ponder the notions of love and its manifestations around us. Find out more

[ arranging conversations ]

03.10.2021, 03.10.21, 15:00 - 18:00

a grainy purple background is overlaid with a thin grid. Soft yellow blobs float in and around it, together with some smaller orange curvy blobs and grey rounded lines. Some of them overlap each other creating a composition of shapes and colors.

We invite you to a workshop that will explore conversation scores and silences as tools for shaping group interactions. Find out more

Improvising Access, for now

04.02.2024, 04.02.24, 11:00 – 12:00

School of Commons - Improvising Access, for now - participatory workshop by Freedom Studies

Freedom Studies (Letitia, Rose and Ella) will be hosting a participatory workshop which aims to learn with Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed techniques to explore questions around access, disability justice, and interdependent ways of living and being together. Find out more

Un mundo ch'ixi es posible. Capítulo: Micropolítica andina. Formas elementales de insurgencia cotidiana

27.10.2023

Un mundo ch'ixi es posible. Capítulo: Micropolítica andina. Formas elementales de insurgencia cotidiana:This text by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui was undertranslated by the third year students of the Critical Studies minor from the Willem de Kooning Academy.

This text by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui was undertranslated by the third year students of the Critical Studies minor from the Willem de Kooning Academy. Find out more

Garage Ultratranslation Marathon: Cocina situada / Situated Kitchen

13.05.2023 — 14.05.2023, 13.05.23, 12:00 – 14.05.23, 19:00

Flyer - Garage Ultratranslation Marathon: Cocina situada / Situated Kitchen

During the Ultrahospitality weekend we will perform a collective “ultratranslation” of “La cocina situada” (The situated kitchen), a book by our dear friend Marina Monsonís. Her book is a small “illustrated dictionary for food sovereignty”. Find out more

Alt Shift Festival: Each One Teach One

31.07.2024, Kunst in der Natur, Austria

Each One Teach One: Reiki and Collective Writing Workshop facilitated by Chantelle Lue ((Image ‘thought amplifier’ sourced via https://stoppingoffplace.blogspot.com/2010/10/thought-amplifier.html)

Reiki and Collective Writing Workshop facilitated by Chantelle Lue Find out more

Sonic Scavenging: Hidden Music In The Wild

29.07.2023, 29.07.23, 13:00 – 17:00

Sonic Scavenging: Hidden Music In The Wild organized by Lena Pozdnyakova and Eldar Tagi

“Sonic Scavenging: Hidden Music In The Wild” is a workshop organized by Lena Pozdnyakova and Eldar Tagi (of There, there working group). It is designed to open up the world of sound to children, offering them a unique opportunity to engage with their environment through auditory exploration. Find out more

The story of touch

04.02.2024, 04.02.24, 17:00 – 18:00

School of Commons event - The story of touch – workshop with There, there working group

What’s the language of bodies? How do they listen, how do they speak? 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

School of Commons - On alternative environments for learning

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

Institutional Possibility: Protocols for Caring Institutions

28.04.2023, 28.04.23, 13:00 – 15:00

Workshop - Institutional Possibility: Protocols for Caring Institutions

The workshop “Institutional Possibility: Protocols for Caring Institutions” invites Caroline Woolard, an artist, educator, and the Chief Culture Officer at Open Collective, to facilitate a series of exercises that develop awareness about the potential of communication, cooperation, and reflection within institutional frameworks. Find out more

In-Progress Session: Fire is Scary

20.07.2021, July 20th 18.00-20.00

School of Commons - In-Progress Session: Fire is Scary with guest speaker Rory Pilgrim

Fire is Scary will present an in-progress session from their research project Fire is Scary: Translations of Sound and Image on July 20th from 18.00-20.00, with guest speaker Rory Pilgrim. Find out more

"Weighing Together"

03.02.2024, 03.02.24, 12:00 – 13:00

School of Commons - Weighing Together – workshop by The Short Big

The Short Big is a workshop and podcast series that aims to bridge the gap between urgent academic research through the collective exploration of language and terminology. 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

Ch’ixi undertranslation

16.10.2023, 16.10.23, 11:00

Ch’ixi undertranslation, London Interdisciplinary School

We followed an intuition. Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui uses this word called abigarramiento. It is untranslatable to english. The word indicates shelter, rooting, but also swallowing, seizing… we looked for where that word appears, in which text. We found nothing, but we found something else. Find out more

Footnotes: Annotating the Future of Arts Education

29.08.2022 — 01.09.2022, 29.08.22, 09:00 – 01.09.22, 22:00

School of Commons Summer School -Footnotes: Annotating the Future of Arts Education

Footnotes is a Summer School for academics, professionals, students and curious people organised by School of Commons. It will take place from 29 August to 1 September 2022, on the campus of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Find out more

Creative Ways to Use Seasonal Gluts

25.06.2024, 25.06.2024, 16:00 – 19:00

Workshop: Creative Ways to Use Seasonal Gluts

The workshop will be taught by Annie Levy, an American living in Wales UK, who is a curious and inventive cook, activist and a teacher of foodways. Through experimentation and knowledge of many years, she explores tasty and nourishing ways with seasonal gluts and foraged finds. Find out more

Bakterien* Erfahren

09.06.2019, 09.06.19 14:00 - 18:00

School of Commons Workshop Bakterien* Erfahren at Kein Museum

Collectively imagining co/living situations

12.12.2023, 12.12.23, 17:00 - 19:00

Framer Framed: Collectively imagining co/living situations workshop

During the workshop, participants will collectively engage with shared living situations and their interrelation with spectrums of migration, gender, ability, health, cultural background, and others, addressing the current housing crisis and its implications. Find out more

✨ Scholarship Opportunity: Workshop with CA Conrad

21.06.2021, The overall duration of the course and time together is 28th June – 4th July.

CA Conrad

Band of Burnouts is thrilled to announce that we are offering two scholarships for writers who have experience with burnout and would like to work with the topic in their practice. Find out more