Urgent Pedagogies Issue #10:
PolyVocalCity

PolyVocalCity: Restaging Croydon, Saturday school, Croydon,2023. Photo: Lou-Atessa Marcellin. Image: courtesy of Theatrum Mundi

 

IASPIS is announcing the Urgent Pedagogies Issue #10: PolyVocalCity, collectively guest edited by Markas Fortunatas Klisius, Lou-Atessa Marcellin, Betty Owoo, Robin Finch Pickering and Rebecca Sainsot-Reynolds. This issue is introducing 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.

Theatrum Mundi is a centre for research and experimental learning that seeks to reimagine our cities and who has agency in making them. We do this by facilitating inter-disciplinary and inter-generational conversations that bring diverse practitioners together. Through co-creation and knowledge sharing, we develop methods for world-building and storytelling to imagine alternative narratives for our cities.

In 2022 we initiated the educational programme PolyVocalCity with the will to generate knowledge through making and hence generating new strands of research informed by lived experiences. After its first edition we felt the need to anchor the programme in a specific place and since 2023, we have been running PolyVocalCity from Croydon Town, part of the London Borough of Croydon, a local government district of Greater London.

Contributors include Markas Fortunatas Klisius, Lou-Atessa Marcellin, Betty Owoo, Robin Finch Pickering and Rebecca Sainsot-Reynolds.