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Events

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10 May 2025, Studio Giardini, 798 Rio Terà S. Isepo, Venice, Italy

Urgent Pedagogies: Practicing Care

On the occasion of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, IASPIS welcomes you to a series of presentations and a conversation exploring different approaches and environments for practicing care pedagogies concerning overlapping crises.
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13 Nov 2024, Online

Urgent Pedagogies: wóyde Cineforum

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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10 May 2024, 10–11.30 AM + 4.30–6 PM, Borgo Rizza, Carlentini, Sicily

Urgent Pedagogies: Decolonial learning

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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16 March 2024, 3–5 PM, SALT Galata, Istanbul, Turkey

Urgent Pedagogies: Alternative spaces for learning

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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18 – 20 May 2023, Studio Giardini, 798 Rio Terà S. Isepo, Venice, Italy

Urgent Pedagogies: Methodologies

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, Online

Urgent Pedagogies Issue#5 launch

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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25 Nov 2022, Online

Urgent Pedagogies Issue#4 launch

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.
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3 Dec 2021, Online

Urgent Pedagogies Issue#3 launch

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.
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19 Nov 2021, S.a.L.E. Docks, Venice, Italy

Urgent Pedagogies: Infrastructures

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.
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30 Sep 2021, Online

Urgent Pedagogies Issue#2 launch

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.
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17 Jun 2021, Online

Urgent Pedagogies online platform launch

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.
The Right to Design: A collective and purposeful misreading, with Onkar Kular. Photo: courtesy of IASPIS
3 Dec 2019, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden

Formal and informal learning environments

In this second Urgent Pedagogies public seminar and gathering at IASPIS, perspectives on formal and informal learning environments, between academia and activism, were presented and discussed with practitioners and thinkers from art, architecture and design.
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11 Dec 2018, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden

Pedagogical turns in practice

This Urgent Pedagogies seminar at IASPIS focused on the formation of democratic and pluralistic environments where participants can learn freely, honestly and enthusiastically, not confined within the traditional walls of academia.
The Right to Design: A collective and purposeful misreading, with Onkar Kular. Photo: courtesy of IASPIS
22 Sep 2018, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey

Learning and unlearning through spaces of exception

This first Urgent Pedagogies public event was presented as a part of the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial and gathered international educators and pedagogical practitioners from the fields of design and architecture.

Urgent Pedagogies is an IASPIS project.

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