URGENT PEDAGOGIES

TEMPORALITY
13 Nov 2024
18:00–20:00 CET

FILED AS
practice (Text Commission)

Six people sitting around a table outdoors discussing

IASPIS announces the VIIth session of wóyde Cineforum: "Why Matter Matters", sharing a selection of films to watch and follow up in an online event bringing together film makers Susan Schuppli and Pelin Tan with the cineforum founders Silvia Susanna, Alice Pontiggia, Steffie De Gaetano and public.

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wóyde Cineforum

st(r)ay

TEMPORALITY
2020 – ongoing

Group of people, sitting in an open field at night watching a film projected on a screen

Alice Pontiggia, Silvia Susanna and Steffie de Gaetano use the Cineforum to create a safe space where a pluriversality of reflections raised by viewing video material come together, and where decolonial and demodern futures can be envisioned from a collection of divided visions.

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Issue #10

PolyVocalCity

TEMPORALITY
May 2024

Issue #10: PolyVocalCity, presents Theatrum Mundi’s educational programme that adopts a non hierarchical model for knowledge exchange bringing together academic and lived experience nurturing relationships based on mutual respect gained by exposing each other's strength and vulnerabilities.

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PolyVocalCity: Ritual, routine and improvisation

Markas Fortunatas Klisius & Rebecca Sainsot-Reynolds

TEMPORALITY
2022 – ongoing

LOCATION
London/Croydon, UK

Group of people, sitting, standing and working together

Markas Fortunatas Klisius and Rebecca Sainsot-Reynolds invite us to, through a journey of rituals, routines and improvisations, dive into Croydon’s histories of care, solidarity and resistance.

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Field Notes: Findings from Crocus Valley

Betty Owoo

FILED AS
practice (Feild notes)

TEMPORALITY
2022 – ongoing

LOCATION
London/Croydon, UK

Group of young people, sitting on a terrace studying

Betty Owoo’s recollection retraces introspection about space, navigating places in Croydon through the lenses of her senses during the Theatrum Mundi 2023.

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Sounding Croydon

Markas Fortunatas Klisius, Betty Owoo, Robin Finch Pickering, Rebecca Sainsot-Reynolds

FILED AS
practice (Audio works)

TEMPORALITY
2022 – ongoing

LOCATION
London/Croydon, UK

A collage of orange monochrome images with text and drawings of leaves

Markas Fortunatas Klisius, Betty Owoo, Robin Finch Pickering Rebecca and Sainsot-Reynold's series of audio works as invitations to encounter Croydon from the perspective of those who inhabit it and animate it, offering a refuge, a place of care, a home to a diversity of voices and life experiences.

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Who has a seat at the table to speculate the alternative?

Space Black

FILED AS
practice (Text Commission)

TEMPORALITY
2021 – ongoing

LOCATION
London, United Kingdom

Group of young people, sitting and standing together in an art gallery

Rayan Elnayal and Heba Tabidi, founders of the London-based art, architecture and engineering collective Space Black introduce their practice and their interest in the under-represented and under-resourced ideas that have been neglected due to the profession's lack of diversity.

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10 May 2024, 10–11.30 AM + 4.30–6 PM

Urgent Pedagogies: Decolonial learning

TEMPORALITY
10 May 2024, 10–11.30 AM + 4.30–6 PM

LOCATION
Borgo Rizza, Carlentini, Sicily

Arial view on roof top with built structures

Welcome to a learning moment around issues of decolonial pedagogies, hosted by Urgent Pedagogies for Entity of Decolonization, the third annual gathering at Borgo Rizza, Carlentini, Sicily.

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Cogenerating spaces of learning

Johanna Gullberg

LOCATION
Trondheim, Norway

TEMPORALITY
2016 – 2021

Cityscape with industrial buildings and scafolding

Johanna Gullberg introduces her doctoral thesis "Cogenerating Spaces of Learning" from 2021, and shows how the encounter with a theatre company and the introduction of an action research model enabled architecture students to give words to strange experiences.

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Mutyrõ of Urgent Resistance

Giovanna Deltregia Martinelli

LOCATION
Santa Maria, Brazil

TEMPORALITY
2016–ongoing

Group of people sitting on the ground watching two women doing a circus act

Giovanna Deltregia Martinelli discusses how marginalized communities in Brazil resist in informal territories through collective work such as the "mutirão". The grassroots initiative of "Vila Resistência" demonstrates the opportune blend of formal and informal practices.

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16 March 2024, 3–5 PM

Urgent Pedagogies: Alternative spaces for learning

TEMPORALITY
16 March 2024, 3–5 PM

LOCATION
SALT Galata, Istanbul, Turkey

People sitting in a small library talking and on person showing slides from a computer

Welcome to a conversations focusing on alternative environments for learning and knowledge production, in relation to the exhibition "Architectural Education in Turkey: Thresholds of Institutionalization from the 18th Century to the Present" at SALT, Istanbul".

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Issue #9

The Right to design

TEMPORALITY
Feb 2024

Issue #9: The Right to design, presents the practice-based platform The Right to design that examines the historic and contemporary relationship between design and rights.

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A Purposeful Misreading

Onkar Kular and Henric Benesch

TEMPORALITY
2021 Ongoing

LOCATION
Sweden

Collage of images, text and diagrams representing the project The Right to design

A purposeful misreading of Arjun Appadurai’s 2006 paper, "The Right to Research, Globalisation, Societies and Education". The ambition of the misreading was to interrogate how the subject of design could be considered beyond current epistemic, institutional and disciplinary demarcations.

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The Right to design

Onkar Kular and Henric Benesch

TEMPORALITY
2021 Ongoing

LOCATION
Sweden

Image collage with old photo of men standing and on top diagrams

The Right do design is a practice-based research platform that aims at understanding the entangled historic and present relationship between design and rights and to claim ‘design’ itself as a special kind of right that is accessible beyond class background, gender, ethnicity age, and disability.

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Another Possible is Possible: The Right not to be designed

Arjun Appadurai and Arturo Escobar in conversation

TEMPORALITY
7 October 2021

LOCATION
Online and Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden

A drawing with the two main speakers on a big screen and the moderators infront

This recorded online video and transcription of the keynote conversation between the anthropologists Arjun Appadurai and Arturo Escobar was part of the one-day symposium titled "The Right to design: Another Possible is Possible" at Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Too many public futures are decided in private rooms

Caleb Femi in conversation with Onkar Kular

TEMPORALITY
25 August 2022

LOCATION
Göteborgs Litteraturhus, Sweden

Housing estate in the background, signpost with map in front

A conversation between Caleb Femi and Onkar Kular on how the combined practices of reading, documenting and writing can provide new ways, new forms and new visibilities for understanding how our designed urban environments profoundly shape individual and collective experiences at different scales.

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A Public Design Broadcast

Bass Cultures, How Low Can You!

TEMPORALITY
3—4 November, 2023

LOCATION
Falkenbergs teater, Smedjan, Sweden

DJ in front of his decks and an image of a house in the snow

A Public Design Broadcast outlines the programme and additional framing texts for a two-day sonic event with film screenings, workshops, talks, and DJ sets situating Bass Cultures and Sound Systems as sites for autonomous designing, learning, and pedagogy.

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A funambulist: Unearthing the narratives of Karachi’s colonial and national (postcolonial) formation

Behzad Khosravi Noori

TEMPORALITY
December 2023

LOCATION
London, United Kingdom

Hand holding black and white image with ladies working photographed from above

Embarking on a journey to explore and teach the decolonised history of Karachi, Behzad Khosravi Noori intertwines his personal historical explorations with pedagogical practice. How do we approach history in Karachi? How can we envision an alternative future for our collective past?

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Issue #8

Worldings

TEMPORALITY
Nov 2023

FILED AS
theory (Field Report)

Issue #8: Worldings presents research and engagement carried out in Gwadar, Pakistan, as part of the long-term, Topological Atlas. It considers the material effects of infrastructural development and its modes of worlding at different scales and through varied forms of pedagogical engagement.

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Conflicting Material Imaginaries

Nishat Awan and Zahra Hussain

TEMPORALITY
2022

FILED AS
practice (Visiting School)

A fishing beach showing an upturned small boat in the foreground, more boars in the background on the beach and in the sea with the cranes of a sea port in the distance on the opposite shore.

Nishat Awan and Zahra Hussain discuss the complex politics of infrastructural development in Gwadar, Pakistan and its effects on local communities.

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Relating through Cosmopolitical maps

Zahra Hussain, Laajverd

TEMPORALITY
2019

FILED AS
practice (reflections on fieldwork and pedagogy)

A drawing showing sea waves with different kinds of sea life surrounding a small hill with a camel, tree and ghostly human figures reaching out to a starry sky.

Architect and human geographer Zahra Hussain explores forms of engagement with landscapes. She discusses maps as a tool for engaging with communities and their lifeworlds in Gwadar.

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Other Pedagogies

Asim Rafiqui

TEMPORALITY
2020–2023

FILED AS
practice (reflections on fieldwork and pedagogy)

A group of men and boys are standing in what looks like a ruined house, under a blue sky, with a camera on a tripod in front of them.

Asim Rafiqui describes his experience teaching visual storytelling to students in Gwadar, and how the line between teacher and student blurred in projects that questioned the young men’s desires to project an imaginary of Gwadar.

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My Dhooria | میرا ڈوریا

Khair Jan Khairul

TEMPORALITY
2020–2023

FILED AS
theory (photo essay and an ethnographic account)

A photograph of a man sitting at a wooden table and with an attached bench on a beach. The waves are lapping around him and there are fishing boats moored in the sea behind him.

What counts as history? Khair Jan, a son of a mahigeer family, tells stories of the people he grew up with, stories and histories that matter to the people of the city of Gwadar.

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Kareemuk Hotel

Tariq Faiz and Asim Rafiqui

TEMPORALITY
2020–2023

FILED AS
practice (Design studio teaching)

A black and white photograph of an interior view of a building where a man is serving tea while another is leaning over a counter. In the background is a shelf with boxes and a large trophy, on the ground there are barrels and sacks.

Tariq Faiz and Asim Rafiqui relate the story of an historic café in Gwadar. A story that is more than just a portrait of a place and the people who frequent it, but instead gives a glimpse into a living social world.

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Plotting from afar

Nishat Awan with Casper Lie, Maciej Moszant, Deniz Tichelaar and Kalina Yanakieva

TEMPORALITY
2020–2021

LOCATION
Delft, Netherlands and Gwadar, Pakistan

An extract from a map showing the coastal area of the Gwadar region, including the border with Iran. Lines and shading show the exchange of goods, movement of people and the extraction resources, as well as land and marine ecologies.

Nishat Awan discusses architectural studio teaching where sites are often chosen in distant places with very little situated knowledge of the context. She discusses mapping as a key method for apprehending places from afar.

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It all starts with a wall

Maciej Moszant

FILED AS
practice (Design studio teaching)

TEMPORALITY
2020–2021

LOCATION
Delft, Netherlands and Gwadar, Pakistan

Illustration showing men building a spatial structure

Maciej Moszant discusses his speculative project, It all starts with a wall, which aims to counteract the ongoing sealing and fortification of the once porous Iran-Pakistan border that enabled local people to trade and to get by.

CATEGORY

Pedagogies of Remembrance: Collectively resisting the violence of forgetting

Alessandra Fudoli

TEMPORALITY
2016–ongoing

LOCATION
Mariana, Brazil

The interior of a flooded house with broken furniture in sand

Alessandra Fudoli writes about the relation between architecture, politics of extraction and socio-environmental violence and how pedagogical initiatives by local communities has provided strength to mobilize resources and promote alternatives to value their their ways of life.

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Issue #7

Entangled Topographies

TEMPORALITY
Oct 2023

Issue #7: Entangled Topographies presents how the research collective Arazi Assembly is working in different spatial scales focusing on the Southeast region of Turkey. Arazi considers collective research as a form of knowledge production of decolonization, care and solidarity.

CATEGORY

Eco-Healers / The Women of Hevsel

Ruken Aydoğdu

LOCATION
Diyarbakır, Turkey

TEMPORALITY
2021

Ruken Aydoğdu is revealing how Kurdish female farmers and foragers are resisting the urban policy of the old town Diyarbakır’s hinterland destruction by creating entangled labour and production that sustain the biodiversity of Hevsel.

CATEGORY

A commune in time, The commune in geography

Merve Gül Özokcu

LOCATION
Dara, Mardin, Turkey

Merve Gül Özokcu’s research stresses the “spatiality” of commons and the memory of space created/traced by the Kurdish women according to their daily/annual food production.

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Re-imagining the Archival Commons

Özge Çelikaslan

TEMPORALITY
2013 – ongoing

Özge Çelikaslan describes what re-imagining the archival commons means to contemplate new archival methodologies collectively, considering the needs of the societies, commons, and the environment.

CATEGORY

Archiving Spaciocide: Video — Topographies

Pelin Tan and Özge Çelikaslan

TEMPORALITY
2013 – ongoing

Screenshot of website with video archive

Pelin Tan and Özge Çelikaslan introduces "Archiving Spaciocide with Video-Topographies", a video archive of residual spaces that connects many sites in Southeast Turkey that witness an assemblage of the spaciocide of the socio-spatial network.

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Narratives of Spaces: The gaze of the signifier, participation in an ongoing research

Merve Gül Özokcu

Merve Gül Özokcu introduces an open source database of visual and oral narratives of collective spaces related to cooking and commoning.

CATEGORY

Benusen Neighborhood

Yıldız Tahtacı

LOCATION
Diyarbakır/Amed, Turkey

TEMPORALITY
2013 – 2017

Yıldız Tahtacı is working on Benusen neighborhood which is a site beside the Diyarbakır fortification that was expanded with the migration of Kurdish communities whose villages were burnt during the 1990s.

CATEGORY

A Road to Home: Following the concrete

Yelta Köm

TEMPORALITY
2018 – ongoing

LOCATION
Southeast region of Turkey

In "A road to Home”, Yelta Köm is working on an ongoing visual investigation of the concrete blocks, where they were used, and how they are shaping the spatial surveillance in urban areas and border zones.

CATEGORY

Ecological Mourning: Extinction of fish in Tigris river

Leyla Keskin

TEMPORALITY
2019 – ongoing

LOCATION
Hasankeyf, Batman, Turkey

Leyla Keskin researches the effect of the state-led water-dam project on the Tigris River that forcibly led to the disappearance of the biodiversity and more-than human world ecology of its region.

CATEGORY

A Border City Without Borders

Yıldız Tahtacı, Mezra Öner

LOCATION
Nusaybin, Mardin, Turkey

TEMPORALITY
2015 – 2017

Yıldız Tahtacı and Mezra Öner exemplify Nusaybin (Nisibin), a Kurdish town bordering Al-Qamishli / Syria, that faced the process of spaciocide, state-led transformation, and expropriation in the urban areas.

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Inaccurate topographies of territorial states

Yelta Köm

TEMPORALITY
2018 – ongoing

Yelta Köm looks at how surveillance and control over territories re-forms the topography and how the history and formation of maps are interwoven with colonial practices.

CATEGORY

About cooking

Merve Gül Özokcu

Top view photo of a table with people preparing food

Merve Gül Özokcu shows in her research how ingredients, preservation, and cooking practices relate not only to daily needs, but also to storytelling and social coexistence for local daily resistance.

CATEGORY

When stone speaks

Pelin Tan

TEMPORALITY
2013 – ongoing

LOCATION
Çînerîya Village, Turkey

Pelin Tan's research looks at how non-human elements and the narrative of them within human relations create a specific entanglement, where the trauma of slow violence and lost speech reactivates itself.

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Issue #6

Earthed Imagination

TEMPORALITY
Jun 2023

Issue #6: Earthed Imagination looks back at Luleå Biennial 2022, Craft & Art to consider the different ways the biennial engaged and facilitated learning and collective imagination through its physical and digital Learning Room platform and programme.

CATEGORY

Gamla vävnader från Norrbotten (Old weaves from Norrbotten)

Doris Wiklund

TEMPORALITY
1980's and 1990's

LOCATION
Norrbotten, Sapmi/Sweden

Doris Wiklund is a weaver and has worked as a weaving teacher for many years and introduced many people in Norrbotten to the craft and joy of weaving through her important book Gamla vävnader från Norrbotten (Old Weaves from Norrbotten).

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Digital weaving circle – What a fantastic way to explore the possibilities of weaving together (but at a distance)!

Linnea Nilsson and Ida Isak Westerberg

TEMPORALITY
Oct 2023 - Jan 2024

LOCATION
Norrbotten, Sápmi/Sweden

During Luleå Biennial 2023, Linnea Nilsson and Ida Isak Westerberg developed a digital weaving circle format, creating a unique opportunity for people in different locations to learn weaving both remotely and together.

CATEGORY

Weaving Kiosk on the border at Rajalla Shopping Centre

Rosa Tolnov Clausen

LOCATION
Haparanda, Sweden, Tornio, Finland

TEMPORALITY
Dec 2023

Shop front window showing the weaving kiosk

Commissioned for Luleå Biennial 2022, textile designer Rosa Tolnov Clausen gives a personal account of her Weaving Kiosk project located between the border of Sweden and Finland.

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Gulahallan ja birgen

Berit Kristine Andersen Guvsám, Gunvor Guttorm, Laila Susanna Kuhmunen

TEMPORALITY
Sept 2022 – Nov 2022

LOCATION
Karasjok, Sapmi/Norway

One of the many outcomes of a two-year collaboration with AIDA (Arctic Indigenous Arts and Design Archives, 2016-2022), Gulahallan ja birgen was an exhibition at The Sami Center for Contemporary Art Kárášjohka/Karasjok featuring Berit Kristine Andersen Guvsám, Gunvor Guttorm, Laila Susanna Kuhmunen.

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A stick is never too long or too short

Silje Figenschou Thoresen

TEMPORALITY
Oct 2022 – Jan 2023

LOCATION
Norrbotten, Sápmi/Sweden and Kirkenes, Sápmi/Norway

In Silje Figenschou Thoresen’s practice, learning has a special and site specific meaning. With her installations becoming an archive of a knowledge production that reconsiders linear and traditional knowledge systems.

CATEGORY

A journey to learn about the land through food

Eva Gunnare

LOCATION
Norrbotten, Sapmi/Sweden

TEMPORALITY
Jan 2023

Through food craft, Eva Gunnare introduces us to ways of seeing to understand lands. She invites us to see beyond the trees, to get to know traditional food practices and to listen and learn with herbs and berries.

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Baajh vaeride årrodh! (Let the Mountains Live!)

Søstrene Suse

TEMPORALITY
Oct 2022 – Dec 2023

LOCATION
Norway

Exhibition installation Luleå Biennial 2023

The collective Søstrene Suse invites us to an audio cinema in which audiences come together to listen and learn with three generations of experiences for the fight for Sápmi.

CATEGORY

Organist performance at Jukkasjärvi Church

Robert Pauker

TEMPORALITY
Oct 2022 – Jan 2023

LOCATION
Jukkasjärvi, Norrbotten, Sápmi/Sweden

Organ Recital by Robert Pauker at Jukkasjärvi Church highlighting the work of Sami craftsman Lars Levi Sunna.

CATEGORY

18 – 20 May 2023

Urgent Pedagogies: Methodologies

TEMPORALITY
18 – 20 May 2023

LOCATION
Studio Giardini, 798 Rio Terà S. Isepo, Venice, Italy

People standing around small building in landscape

On the occasion of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023, IASPIS is welcoming you to a series of conversations sharing experience of methodologies in building environments for learning in relation to different urgencies, contexts and conditions.

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16 Mar 2023

Urgent Pedagogies Issue#5 launch

TEMPORALITY
16 Mar 2023
3:00–5:00 CET

gif animation with 4 images, people gathering in different situations

IASPIS announces Urgent Pedagogies Issue #5: Pluriversality, sharing pedagogical practices and engaging the trans-modern perspectives that emerge from the many (de)institutionalized, geo-politically sub-alternized, philosophically insurgent, and otherwise resistant worlds of its contributors.

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Issue #5

Pluriversality

TEMPORALITY
Mar 2023

TEMPORALITY
2020 – the future

Issue #5: Pluriversality shares pedagogical practices; convening images, words, and sounds; and engaging the trans-modern perspectives that emerge from the (de)institutionalized, geo-politically sub-alternized, philosophically insurgent, and otherwise resistant worlds of its contributors.

CATEGORY

Remarks for an opening: January 18, 2020

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

FILED AS
theory

FILED AS
theory (Comissioned text)

Woman-writer in dress speaks to two other women, both visual artists

Remarks for an Opening was written for De/Archive East Africa, Kenya, 2020. The burning of the archives and the murder of its keepers was a familiar practice of empire. But as Owuor recalls, other archives survived in the very sea and land...

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Weeds of enlightenment

Margarita Kuleva

TEMPORALITY
2020 – the future

FILED AS
theory (Instagram Live conversation)

Woman giving lecture to people in a swimming pool

Margarita Kuleva asks through her project, “Weeds of Enlightenment,” what possibilities emerge when education is detached from its institutionalized forms, from the state and schooling, its spaces and procedures?

CATEGORY

Naked Protest

Stella Nyanzi in conversation with EM Mirembe

TEMPORALITY
2010 – the future

FILED AS
theory (Round table conversation)

In this Instagram Live conversation between EM Mirembe and Stella Nyanzi, which we entitle “Naked Protest,” they delve deeply into the embodied, dissident creativities proposed and enacted by anti-capitalist, queer, feminist, and anti-governmental futures.

CATEGORY

Inside/outside/across/between: Crossing thresholds, academically and otherwise

Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld and Isabelle Massu, convened by Dalida María Benfield

TEMPORALITY
2021 – the future

TEMPORALITY
1900 – the future

A group of students sitting outside of a building in a circle

With Isabelle Massu and Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Dalida María Benfield engages in a roundtable, ”Inside/Outside/Across/Between: Crossing Thresholds, Academically and Otherwise,” regarding the perils of the practices of liberatory pedagogies in two art academies in Europe.

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Temporary Stored

Joseph Kamaru aka KMRU

FILED AS
theory

FILED AS
practice (Educational programme)

Three people in dark room looking at objects and papers

Joseph Kamaru aka KMRU questions the colonial archive upon which European/Occidental thinking, schooling, and listening rely. Kamaru’s project, Temporary Stored, liberates the sonic beings of ancestors.

CATEGORY

Potentially liberatory glimpses of the 33rd São Paulo Biennial system

Dalida María Benfield, Christopher Bratton, Evelyn Eastmond, Bruno Moreschi, Gabriel Pereira

TEMPORALITY
2010 – the future

FILED AS
theory (commissioned text)

Two people stand blindfolded in front of art exhibition

Bruno Moreschi conducted a series of collaborative investigations, Another 33rd Biennial, for his contribution to the 33rd São Paulo Biennial. Dalida María Benfield, Christopher Bratton, Evelyn Eastmond, and Gabriel Pereira, with Moreschi – reflect on the trans-local design and learning process.

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Ushuni wethu lo!

Sibonelo Gumede

TEMPORALITY
2021 – the future

FILED AS
practice (Educational programme)

A group of people stand in an illuminated circle

Sibonelo Gumede’s contribution follows multiple and intertwined spatial, affective, and interdependent threads through Johannesburg, in a collective endeavor to forge and theorize a musical curriculum as a way of knowing.

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Black Joy

Joanna Haigood

TEMPORALITY
2010 – the future

TEMPORALITY
2019 – the future

Man dancing on a stage with his back to the viewer

The video, Black Joy, like Joanna Haigood’s own aerial choreography, zooms out for a meta-versal perspective on global Black cultures and the planetary joy they bestow.

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‘Night Gives Birth to Day’ as the ‘Conquest of Imperfection’

Bernard Stiegler

FILED AS
theory

Three people sit at a table in front of a crowd in a large salon

Bernard Stiegler theorizes the end of Anthropocene and how new forms are emerging. Key is the role of artist and philosopher, who are tasked as the gardeners of new “biospheric localities,” grown from the humus of ideas and creolized from, after Glissant, “the excited commotion of diversity.

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25 Nov 2022

Urgent Pedagogies Issue#4 launch

TEMPORALITY
25 Nov 2022

gif animation with 4 images, buildings and people gathering in different situations

IASPIS is announcing the Urgent Pedagogies Issue#4: Transversality, focusing on various institutional practices in different spatial scales – from urban and regional to continental – that are shaped by social-political struggles and colonial histories.

CATEGORY

Issue #4

Transversality

TEMPORALITY
Jun 2022

FILED AS
theory (Urgent Pedagogies text commission)

The fourth issue of Urgent Pedagogies features texts and conversations related to different forms of institutional practice, with Elof Hellström, Anna Colin, Christine Tohmé, Marie Hélène Pereira, Amalia Katopodis, Alessandro Petti, Marie-Louise Richards and Ola Hassanain.

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Something in the site itself provides a motivation for study

Elof Hellström

TEMPORALITY
November 2020

Elof Hellstöm writes about how the cultural house Cyklopen has been developed into an urban common and site for learning, drawing a parallel to the development of the Swedish People’s House movement with an origin in the late 19th century.

CATEGORY

Situated and self-directed learning as practice development

Presentation by Anna Colin and conversation with Magnus Ericson and Pelin Tan

LOCATION
Margate, United Kingdom

TEMPORALITY
May 2020

Anna Colin giving an online presentation

Anna Colin, co-founder of the alternative art school and community space Open School East, discusses how their educational programme has developed from the idea of being free, non-exclusive, collaborative, agentive, permeable, and outwards facing, to become a situated learning environment.

CATEGORY

Home Workspace Program

Interview with Christine Tohmé by Pelin Tan and Magnus Ericson

FILED AS
theory (Interview)

TEMPORALITY
November 2020

LOCATION
Beirut, Lebanon

People standing and sitting by the sea talking

Christine Tohmé describes how the Home Workspace Programme was initiated and organised as an academic programme within Ashkal Alwan, and how its role has changed in relation to the current situation in Beirut.

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RAW Académie

Presentation by Marie Hélène Pereira

TEMPORALITY
Feb 2021

LOCATION
Dakar, Senegal

Marie Hélène Pereira giving an online presentation

Marie Hélène Pereira presents RAW Material Company and its pedagogical programme RAW Académie. It has been developed as a response to the growing need for spaces that nurture learning and unlearning in a context where the artistic education in Africa in many ways was modelled by a colonial context.

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Restructuring architectural education

Presentation by Amalia Katopodis and conversation with Magnus Ericson and Pelin Tan

TEMPORALITY
May 2021

LOCATION
Umeå, Sweden

Amalia Katopodis giving an online presentation

Amalia Katopodis presents the Master Programmes at Umeå School of Architecture and discusses how education has fundamentally been restructured to respond to a reality of global challenges, and the growing need for a socially engaged architecture practice.

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What does it mean to decolonize?

Alessandro Petti and Marie-Louise Richards

FILED AS
theory (Interview)

Alessandro Petti and Mari-Louise Richards describe the Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Course at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, as an engagement in a collective endeavour in experimenting with decolonial approaches.

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Space as political discourse

Ola Hassanain

TEMPORALITY
April 2022

LOCATION
Khartoum, Sudan; Amstardam, The Netherlands

Line drawing on top of image of veiled women in Sudan

Ola Hassanain discusses her practice as an architect, artist, researcher, and educator. In urban research in Sudan she focus on issues of women, public space and policies. In her art and pedagogical practice she engages with politics of space and issues of cultural identity and gender.

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Askal Alwan

FILED AS
practice (Platform)

TEMPORALITY
1993 - present

LOCATION
Beirut, Lebanon

Young people standing outside an industrial building

Ashkal Alwan is a non-profit organization based in Beirut. The Home Workspace Program has been has since 2011 explored interdisciplinary, critical models of art education in Lebanon and beyond where education is mostly privatized.

CATEGORY

Open School East

FILED AS
practice (Independent Art school)

TEMPORALITY
2013 on-going

LOCATION
Margate, United Kingdom

Undervalued energetic economy workshop with Raju Rage, Open School East, Margate, February 2020. Photo courtesy of Open School East

Open School East is a free, independent art school and community space that focuses on collective learning through the arts. It supports artists at an early stage of their career to develop their practice and become self-sufficient.

CATEGORY

RAW Material Company – Centre for Art, Knowledge and Society

FILED AS
practice (Platform)

TEMPORALITY
2008 - present

LOCATION
Dakar, Senegal

People standing in a library with sound equipment

RAW Material Company is a centre for art, knowledge and society in Dakar. It is an initiative involved with curatorial practice, artistic education, residencies, knowledge production, and archiving of theory and criticism on art which includes the educational programme RAW Académie.

CATEGORY

3 Dec 2021

Urgent Pedagogies Issue#3 launch

TEMPORALITY
3 Dec 2021

gif animation with 3 images, shoes in a doorway, a child in a swing, exhibition on bicycles outdoors

IASPIS is announcing the Urgent Pedagogies Issue#3: Modalities, sharing various experiences from practices within the context of territorialities; spatial, institutional and political constraints; and colonial histories.

CATEGORY

Issue #3

Modalities

TEMPORALITY
Dec 2021

FILED AS
theory (Online Conversation)

The third issue of Urgent Pedagogies features texts and conversations on various perspectives on modalities, with Silvia Franceschini, Michael Leung, Cibele Lucena, Joana Zatz Mussi, Socrates Stratis, Marc Neelen, Ana Džokić, Miguel Robles-Durán and David Harvey.

CATEGORY

The right to the territory

Miguel Robles-Durán and David Harvey

TEMPORALITY
February 2021

LOCATION
New York, USA

Miguel Robles Durán and David Harvey talks

Miguel Robles Durán and David Harvey reveal a pedagogical experience in Quito, explaining the experience of local dynamics, outcomes (and failures) of public unlearning, decolonial practices of the indigenous communities and the influence of local politics.

CATEGORY

A pedagogy for decolonizing life

Cibele Lucena and Joana Zatz Mussi

LOCATION
São Paulo, Brazil

Cibele Lucena and Joana Zatz Mussi share the start and experiences of Grupo Contrafilé. Collaborating with different institutions, but maneuvering autonomously they generate pedagogical devices within institutional spaces and contexts, actively engaging in decolonial pedagogical methodologies.

CATEGORY

Diffractive spatial practices for urgent pedagogies

Socrates Stratis

LOCATION
Nicosia, Cyprus

Socrates Stratis writes about collectively initiated action projects in a divided Cyprus, creating a liminal space between formal institutional education and activism; maneuvering through and beyond borders on alternative territories and policies by empowering resistance and co-operation.

CATEGORY

Future fiction: an explorative method for self-learning

Marc Neelen and Ana Džokić, STEALTH.unlimited

LOCATION
Belgrade, Serbia and Rotterdam, The Netherlands

TEMPORALITY
June 2021

Marc Neelen and Ana Džokić are using the curatorial as a method for speculating futures within institutional contexts, employing a fictive approach that engages critically with the neoliberal urbanization of Eastern and Western Europe´s geographies.

CATEGORY

Villager pedagogies and backpack organisers in Hong Kong

Michael Leung

FILED AS
theory (Text comission)

TEMPORALITY
January 2021

LOCATION
Hong Kong

Michael Leung shares research and self-initiated actions that react on the struggle of rural villages under the dominance of urbanization in Hong Kong. The methodology reveals the heritage of the rural everydaylife, and sustains the care practices inherent among elderly people and children.

CATEGORY

Translating lifeworlds: curatorial practice and epistemic justice

Silvia Franceschini

TEMPORALITY
November 2021

LOCATION
Milan, Italy

Tent constructed of sticks and fabric with high rise in background

Silvia Franceschini discusses epistemic disobedience, through a review of decolonial thinkers, and connects with her curatorial research and experience. She focuses on the role of curatorial practices, ecologies of knowledge function, and what the practice of epistemic disobedience can irrupt.

CATEGORY

Herkes için Mimarlık

FILED AS
practice (NGO)

TEMPORALITY
2011 – present

LOCATION
Istanbul, Turkey

People making a concrete casting in a street

Herkes için Mimarlık is a platform where student volunteers and professionals can come together and bring social problems encountered in a creative way to the agenda, raise awareness about these problems and act to produce solutions from the fields of architecture and design.

CATEGORY

Cohabitation Strategies

FILED AS
practice (Platform)

TEMPORALITY
2008 - present

LOCATION
New York City, USA; Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Ibiza, Spain

Cohabitation Strategies (CohStra) is a non-profit cooperative for socio-spatial research, design and development that facilitates urban intervention projects in cities across Europe, South and North America.

CATEGORY

19 Nov 2021

Urgent Pedagogies: Infrastructures

TEMPORALITY
19 Nov 2021
17:00–19:30 CET

LOCATION
S.a.L.E. Docks, Venice, Italy

gif animation with 3 images, children playing in playground, people gathering at night with placards , people drawing on paper

IASPIS is welcoming you to a public seminar on building and sustaining infrastructures of unlearning and decolonial knowledge. The seminar presents and discusses diverse practices of architecture and urbanism that all engage and act from a bottom up perspective.

CATEGORY

30 Sep 2021

Urgent Pedagogies Issue#2 launch

TEMPORALITY
30 Sep 2021

gif animation with 3 images, one building in China, two people in a garden, one interior of textile workshop

IASPIS is announcing the Urgent Pedagogies Issue#2: Urgencies, and invites you to the launch. Together with invited guests we will share experiences from diverse continents and argumentation on multiple scales of institutional urgencies with decolonial practice and discourses.

CATEGORY

Issue #2

Urgencies

TEMPORALITY
Sep 2021

The second issue of Urgent Pedagogies features texts on multiple scales of urgencies, with Malkit Shoshan, Maria do Mar Castro Varela, Saphira Shure, Ana María León, Andrew Herscher, Tom Holert, Mauricio Corbalan, Pio Torroja, Ou Ning and Gustavo Esteva.

CATEGORY

The laboratory of the continuous crisis

Mauricio Corbalán and Pio Torroja, m7red

TEMPORALITY
November 2020

LOCATION
Buenos Aires

Mauricio Corbalán and Pio Torroja are concerned with neighborhoods in the bottom-up level of social engagement under urbanization in Buenos Aires. Laboratorio de Tecnología y Territorio is an open space for creating spatial knowledge and practice in communal experience.

CATEGORY

Endangered learning environments and the problem of “Safe Space”

Tom Holert

TEMPORALITY
May 2021

Booklets from Education International, Amnesty International, Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, Save The Children,International Rescue Committee, The World Bank and Unisef.

Tom Holert discusses counter-constructions of space as communal co-existences and examines non-governmental agencies' discourse on learning and education and criticizes the conditions of vulnerable communities in the Global Souths.

CATEGORY

bildungsLab*: Redefining Art and Pedagogy from the Margins

María do Mar Castro Varela and Saphira Shure

TEMPORALITY
September 2021

detail of manifesto publication saying (in German) bildungsLab* (Hg.) BILDUNG Ein Postkoloniales Manifest

María do Mar Castro Varela and Saphira Shure address the necessity of an education which enables especially marginalized students to deploy their imagination to resist growing autocratic ideologies.

CATEGORY

Learning decolonization, unlearning architecture

Andrew Herscher and Ana María León

LOCATION
Salina, Sumpa, ancestral homeland of the Huancavilca, in present-day Ecuador, and Olemaloke, ancestral homeland of the Coast Miwok, in present-day California, USA

Ana María León and Andrew Herscher argue for the tight connection between modern architecture and colonization. They claim in theory and practice that “unlearning architecture and learning decolonization requires the transformation of architectural pedagogy.”

CATEGORY

Alternative pedagogies and social engagement

Ou Ning

FILED AS
theory (Text commission)

FILED AS
theory (interview)

LOCATION
Jingzhou, China

The Bishan villagers came to the School of Tiller for artist Liu Chuanhong’s film screening.

Ou Ning discusses around the term “urgency” and how pedagogical platforms played a role during Chinese cases of urbanization and gentrification. He focuses on the conflict of Urban and Rural learning and explains the experience of the Bishan Project.

CATEGORY

Building spaces for learning together in freedom

Interview with Gustavo Esteva by Magnus Ericson and Pelin Tan

TEMPORALITY
June 2020

LOCATION
Oaxaca, Mexico

Gustavo Esteva discusses the urgency and needs of Universidad de la Tierra - which is an autonomous university and an alliance of collectivities engaged in learning through action, based in Oaxaca.

CATEGORY

Universidad de la Tierra

FILED AS
practice (Autonomous university)

TEMPORALITY
2001 - present

LOCATION
Oaxaca, Mexico

Urban agriculture workshop with women on courtyard at Unitierra.

Universidad de la Tierra is an autonomous university and an alliance of collectivities engaged in learning through action. It was developed amongst the context of radical reactions against schooling observed in many Indigenous communities.

CATEGORY

17 Jun 2021

Urgent Pedagogies online platform launch

TEMPORALITY
17 Jun 2021
15:00–17:00 CET

IASPIS is announcing the Urgent Pedagogies online platform and invites you to the launch. Together with a number of invited architects, artists, curators, activists and thinkers we introduce the platform and reflect on views on pedagogy, urgencies, settings, methodologies and alliances.

CATEGORY

Issue #1

Alliances: Introducing Urgent Pedagogies

TEMPORALITY
Jun 2021

This first issue of Urgent Pedagogies is introducing the project and featuring texts and talks by Katya Sander, Silvia Franceschini, Munir Fasheh, Pelin Tan and Magnus Ericson

CATEGORY

Reclaiming learning as a biological ability

Munir Fasheh

LOCATION
al-Fuheis, Jordan

Silvia Franceschini giving an online presentation

Munir Fasheh talks about his long experience in emancipating learning from being subordinate to formal education. As a subject of the overlayered settler-colonial eras, he has had an important role in empowering solidarity with pedagogical strategies in Palestine from the 1970’s and onwards.

CATEGORY

Alternative Alliances

Pelin Tan

TEMPORALITY
June 2021

LOCATION
Mardin, Turkey

students gathering sitting on rocks in the nature

Pelin Tan discusses the need of alliances through pedagogical platforms and methodologies that fosters the unlearning or learning in a transversal way within collective thinking and acting.

CATEGORY

Towards the Third Space – influences of radical pedagogies

Silvia Franceschini

LOCATION
Milan, Italy

Silvia Franceschini discusses how pedagogy, through radical thinkers and educators such as Paulo Freire and Ivan Illich, has been translated at different times in history and how this has become relevant again in today´s environmental and decolonial challenges.

CATEGORY

To my students: On open processes, social imaginary and praxis

Katya Sander

LOCATION
Kabelvag; Norway and Berlin, Germany

motorboat with people at sea with mountains in background

Where quantification and measurability threatens the role of art and its institutions, Katya Sander discusses ideas of social imaginary, autonomy in relation to collective imaginaries and praxis, and the importance of radically open processes.

CATEGORY

The Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research

FILED AS
practice (Private nonprofit educational institution)

TEMPORALITY
2017 - present

LOCATION
Boston, USA; Helsinki, Finland and worldwide

CAD+SR Residency, ”Commonplaces & Entanglements.” Associazione Culturale Matilde Pianciani, Spoleto, Italy, 2019. Photo: Chien Ying Wu

The Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research is a trans-local meeting place of people, ideas, and projects that share a commitment to “difference-in-equality” (Arturo Escobar) as the foundation of new forms of commons and politics.

CATEGORY

Independent School for the City

FILED AS
practice (postgraduate educational platform)

TEMPORALITY
2018 – present

LOCATION
Rotterdam, Netherlands

Independent School for the City workshop. Photo by Maarten Laupman

Independent School for the City is a Rotterdam-based postgraduate educational platform and a public centre focused on topics around the development of the city.

CATEGORY

Campus in Camps

FILED AS
practice (educational program)

TEMPORALITY
2012 – 2015

LOCATION
The West Bank, Palestine

Caption: Campus in Camps Concrete Tent, Dheisheh Camp. Photo: Anna Sara

Campus in Camps was founded as an experimental educational program and pedagogical platform bringing together theory, action and critical learning in the context of Palestinian refugee camps.

CATEGORY

School SOS

FILED AS
practice (nomadic school)

TEMPORALITY
2019 to present

LOCATION
London, UK

Give it Arrest (2020) by Peter Brooks at SOS_20. Image courtesy of School SOS

School SOS is a nomadic critical design school that aims to challenge current models of delivering higher education in the UK. The School operates as something between a design residency and fully fledged design school.

CATEGORY

STATISTA

FILED AS
practice (Artistic project, public event)

TEMPORALITY
20 May - 31 Dec 2019

FILED AS
practice (educational program)

Haus der Statistik (with Allesandersplatz and Unser Leben 2020). Photo: Victoria Tomaschko

STATISTA was a participatory artistic project that explored and collaborated with the abandoned Haus der Statistik from May to December 2019. It aimed at testing whether working in the spirit of the Commons is an option today, even within the context of city development.

CATEGORY

Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies

FILED AS
practice (Research project)

Towards an entity of decolonization, Sicily by Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti (DAAR), 2020. Photo: Luca Capuano

Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies is a series of postmaster courses, public seminars, field studies, publications, and discursive exhibitions that together form a platform for education and research at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.

CATEGORY

Radical Pedagogies

TEMPORALITY
2010 – 2020

LOCATION
Princeton, USA (Lisbon, Venice, Warsaw)

Radical Pedagogies: Action, Reaction, Interaction, 14th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale: Fundamentals, Venice, 2014. Photo by Bartosz Stawiarski

Radical Pedagogies is an ongoing multiyear collaborative research project that started in 2010 by Beatriz Colomina, at Princeton University.

CATEGORY

Nachbarschaftsakademie

FILED AS
practice (Communal Learning Platform)

TEMPORALITY
2015 – onward