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The Public School
(initiated 2007 by Sean Dockray, in Los Angeles, USA)
The Public School best explains itself; as stated on its website, it is ‘a school with no curriculum. At the moment, it operates as follows: first, classes are proposed by the public (I want to learn this or I want to teach this); then, people have the opportunity to sign up for the classes; finally, when enough people have expressed interest, the school finds a teacher and offers the class to those who signed up.’ After operating for a year in Los Angeles, new schools, following the same model, were started elsewhere in America, and then further chapters opened in other parts of the world, including Brussels, Berlin, Helsinki and Durham. As the website explains: ‘Each chapter functions independently yet stays in keeping with the original mission ... Most importantly, The Public School provides any curious person with access to an underrepresented educational model.’
The Public School best explains itself; as stated on its website, it is ‘a school with no curriculum. At the moment, it operates as follows: first, classes are proposed by the public (I want to learn this or I want to teach this); then, people have the opportunity to sign up for the classes; finally, when enough people have expressed interest, the school finds a teacher and offers the class to those who signed up.’ After operating for a year in Los Angeles, new schools, following the same model, were started elsewhere in America, and then further chapters opened in other parts of the world, including Brussels, Berlin, Helsinki and Durham. As the website explains: ‘Each chapter functions independently yet stays in keeping with the original mission ... Most importantly, The Public School provides any curious person with access to an underrepresented educational model.’
External Program: Depression
External Program is a new online education platform organised by The Public School and AAAARG.ORG.
Motivated by Gilles Deleuze’s 1989 entreaty to ‘look for new weapons’, it is orientated away from certification and employability and towards learning for its own sake. People have been invited to participate in the collective creation of its curriculum by offering to teach something or requesting a lecture on a particular topic.
The first three classes have now been selected and will take place at Wide Open School. The classes will be filmed and made freely accessible online shortly thereafter on the External Program website.
The first sequence of lectures for Wide Open School set up a psychosocial constellation of concepts for analyzing the present state of crisis and imagining exit strategies.
Each of the three classes begins with a 30-60 minute lecture and is followed by an intimate discussion, lasting between 1-2 hours, providing time for questions, elaboration, and debate.
CLASS 3: DEPRESSION
Mark Fisher proposes that there is a social and political cause for much of our depression today. Rather than continue to treat depression privately, how might we convert it into a collective political anger?
CLASS 1 discusses the topic of Sharing and takes place at 10am on Friday 6 July
CLASS 2 discusses the topic of Egoism and takes place at 11am on Saturday 7 July
The first three classes have now been selected and will take place at Wide Open School. The classes will be filmed and made freely accessible online shortly thereafter on the External Program website.
The first sequence of lectures for Wide Open School set up a psychosocial constellation of concepts for analyzing the present state of crisis and imagining exit strategies.
Each of the three classes begins with a 30-60 minute lecture and is followed by an intimate discussion, lasting between 1-2 hours, providing time for questions, elaboration, and debate.
CLASS 3: DEPRESSION
Mark Fisher proposes that there is a social and political cause for much of our depression today. Rather than continue to treat depression privately, how might we convert it into a collective political anger?
CLASS 1 discusses the topic of Sharing and takes place at 10am on Friday 6 July
CLASS 2 discusses the topic of Egoism and takes place at 11am on Saturday 7 July
DETAILS :
Price: £10
Concessions: 50% off (limited availability)
Venue: Hayward Gallery Room 1
Approximate duration: 2 hours
Concessions: 50% off (limited availability)
Venue: Hayward Gallery Room 1
Approximate duration: 2 hours
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