Imagining Commoniveristy workshop - Monday 28th - Wedneday 30th March 2011
Imagining Commoniversity, a workshop led by Hackitectura.net, will take place within the context of the ongoing project Visualizing Transnationalism.
The workshop takes as a starting point the assumption of the University as a Common, to engage with the recent student-led protests in the UK as well as the protests experienced in mainland Europe. As a temporary laboratory, the workshop will connect and collaborate with the existing European group "Commoniversity" who met at Universidad Libre de La Rimalla in Barcelona last November.
Hackitectura.net, will direct the research and together with the participants try to imagine what a common University in Europe could look like, how it could work and what its role in society could be. Through mapping strategies, open collective discussions and the implementation of new media technologies, Hackitectura.net will build on the experience and tradition of British groups such as Archigram, to sketch and design the ‘vision’ of a utopian Common University of the future.
The workshop will be open to a registered audience (max 20 people) with an interest in education/university, new media technologies, activism, mapping techniques, art and architecture.
WORKSHOP INFO
Hackitectura.net (represented by Pablo de Soto and Alejandro González) coordinated by Emanuele Guidi and Lorenzo Sandoval will follow different approaches during the workshop:
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·Presenting the philosophy and the research behind the practice of Hackitectura.net. Looking at the experiences of avant-garde free-universities and utopian architects as Archigram. Presenting the history and current state of the art citizen cartography and data visualization.
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·Mapping contemporary practices and initiatives emerging recently in Europe.
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·A more local focus on the London and UK situation, the actual crisis and the protest movements so as to start a critical reflection on themes, priorities and urgencies that should characterize the University.
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·The methodoloy of the workshop will include the use of n-1, an autonomus and distributed digital social network set up by the hacker and free software movement as a tool for activists to organize and improve knowledge production.
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·One or more images will be produced in forms of maps and/or plan to research a possible representation of a common university. Augmented reality, through Quick Recognition Codes (Qr codes) will be employed as tool to open a dialogue between a more classical form of map/plan/drawing with the resources available in the internet space.
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·One or more posters will be printed as in the following weeks as final result of the workshop and will be presented together with other posters produced within the context of Visualizing Transnationalism. The posters will be displayed in different cities taking part in the Transeuropa Festival both in form of ‘take-away’ installation and hung in various public spaces and festival venues.
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·A presentation of the workshops findings will take place during the Transeuropa festival in London and possibly a second city (to be confirmed).
HOW TO APPLY
There are 20 places available for this workshop, including 7 spaces for UAL students / staff.
To apply, please send a CV and short (no more than 200 words) statement (with 'Imagining Commoniversity' as the subject heading) on why you would like to take part to s.dyer@chelsea.arts.ac.uk by Sunday 20th March 2011. Successful applicants will be notified by Tuesday 22nd March 2011.
NOTES AND QUERIES
Please note: this is a 3-day workshop.
Queries can be addressed to s.dyer@chelsea.arts.ac.uk
Part of Transeuropa Festival 2011 http://www.euroalter.com/festival/
Student Protest - Hackitectura Lab - Mapping the Commons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQKejOQ0xkU