Workshop
Open Circuits - a play and read session on explorative ways of knowing
08.10.2023, 08.10.23, 15:00 – 18:00
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
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
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. Find out more
👄 Somatic Writing Week
28.06.2021 — 04.07.2021
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. 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)
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
"Everything not saved will be lost" — Nintendo / The End Games Find out more
Meme-tivism
30.03.2024, 14:00-16:00 (GMT)
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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” 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Collectively imagining co/living situations
12.12.2023, 12.12.23, 17:00 - 19:00
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.
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