Urgent Pedagogies: Alternative spaces for learning

16 March 2024, 3—5 pm, SALT, Istanbul

Moving through the archive: Johnny Chang and MayDay Rooms, Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus, June 2023. Photo courtesy of IASPIS.

Welcome to a series of presentations and conversations with a focus on alternative environments for learning and knowledge production in relation to how socially engaged spatial practice may act in response to the urgencies of social justice and equality, contested territories, and conditions of conflict.

In this event, organised in relation to the exhibition Architectural Education in Turkey: Thresholds of Institutionalization from the 18th Century to the Present at SALT, the Urgent Pedagogies project and platform will be presented alongside examples of historical and curren practice. This includes the Swedish People’s House movement and other historical urban commons from the 20th century, the research collective Arazi Assembly and their practice at different spatial scales, focusing on the southeast region of Turkey.

With: Magnus Ericson, Merve Gül Özokcu and Elof Hellström, introduction and moderation by Eylül Şenses.