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🗣🗣🗣 Open Call: SoC 2025 closing soon!
Open to: All
School of Commons (SoC), a global learning community, is looking for individual and collective projects to form the SoC learning environment from April 2025 - February 2026.
Get funded, earn ECTS, and explore innovative ways of learning in a collaborative space! Application deadline is Sunday, 01 December 2024 at 23.59pm CET
Click to apply.
For 2025 we will be selecting 16 Funded Projects: 8 ZHdK projects from currently enrolled or employed students and staff of ZHdK [Zürich University of the Arts], and 8 independent projects from proposals outside of ZHdK, including ZHdK alumni. The 8 independent projects can be from anywhere in the world, and do not have to be associated with an educational institution of any kind or have any specific level of education. For all the 16 projects we strongly encourage duos and collectives to apply, although we will be accepting projects submitted from individuals, duos, and collectives.
Each of the 16 projects will receive a total budget of 1,500CHF towards production and travel expenses, alongside access to publishing opportunities, accommodation in Zürich during the mid-year gathering, mentors/speakers, workshops on alternative ways and workings, peer learning, collaborations, and more.
Click here for the full information pack.
🗣🗣🗣 Open Call: IdeaSquare (CERN) & School of Commons (ZHdK)
Open to: SoC X IdeaSquare Workshop, open to ZHdK and SoC only
Online Workshop & Guest Lecture
Thursday, 05 December & Thursday, 12 December 2024
18.00-20.00 CET, with a series of small-scale, online tasks during the interim days.
All online.
Deadline extended: Thursday, 21 November 2024
How do we prepare for a future we don’t yet know? A future in which collaboration of different forms will be inevitable... What will these collaborations look like in our near and distant futures?
The tools and approaches we use today may become obsolete for the futures that lie ahead of us, so how can we prepare for these unknowns? Assuming that collaboration in different forms—such as blended intelligence, like human-AI collaboration, and multi-species exchange, like with mushrooms or ants—will become more and more relevant to our functioning and survival, this workshop will explore ‘the future of collaboration’ through a multitude of forms and perspectives. What will it feel like collaborating with the more-or-other-than human; with plants, food, objects, technologies, animals? What are the necessary tools, approaches and incentives required in order to create a desirable future collaboration?
CERN, where the Large Hadron Collider and World Wide Web was born, has a long and established history of anticipating and creating non-incremental ideas and technologies. In this workshop you will explore a collaborative framework for innovation that addresses and centers the unknown.
Register and reserve your place for ‘The Future of Collaboration’ workshop, developed together by CERNs Ideas Square and ZHdKs SoC by completing the following form.
If you have any questions, please contact hello@schoolofcommons.org
🗣🗣🗣 SoC Alumn* Monthly-Meets
Open to: Past and present SoC participants
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
17.00-18.00 CET
Join via this zoom link!
The upcoming online Alumn* meeting will focus on bringing together members of the SoC Alumn network to connect with new faces, ideate together and discuss plans for 2025.
This year, the alumn* network is coordinated by Lena and Letitia, you can find out a little more about what happened during the SoC Alumn* Spring Harvest OR how to connect in Guide for SoC Alumni and New Cohorts (we are excited to see how these tools will foster deeper connections and richer collaborations across our community)
🗣🗣🗣 Open Call: 'Walking an Ontological Turn'
Open to: ZHdK and SoC only
Workshop led by Koenraad Hinnekint, LUCA School of Arts
Friday, 7 February 2025
09.30-16.30 CET
Zurich University of the Arts, Pfingstweidstrasse 96
Join us for the 'Walking an Ontological Turn' workshop, where we will explore new and speculative ideas to rethink art education from a non-human perspective. In this workshop, we will delve into forms of intelligence that exist outside of human-created environments and thought systems.
We will break away from the traditional separation between humans and nature. Instead, we will investigate the intricate relationships between living and non-living elements and human and non-human aspects.
Our aim is to examine how we can approach learning environments and curricula from an ecosystem (nature) perspective rather than solely from human (culture) approaches. Whether you are a student, teacher, or researcher, we will consider how these ideas can inspire and impact your work, opening new possibilities and perspectives.
We aim to create an Ecology of Justice Archive with ideas for a more sustainable and equitable approach to art education. It starts with the belief that in our increasingly complex educational world, new forms of injustice are emerging, and we can only address these if we are willing to set aside our human perspectives and embrace new ways of thinking.
Program:
- 09:30 Introduction to the workshop's concepts and methodology
- 09:45 Group work to explore the Human-centered Perspective (Ego Zone)
- 10:45 Coffee Break
- 11:15 Group work to explore the Nature-oriented Perspective (Eco Zone)
- 12:15 Mapping an Ecology of Justice Archive
- 12:30 Lunch Break
- 13:30 A role-playing game to negotiate new standards
- 14:30 Coffee break
- 15:00 Writing a Manifesto for an eco-inspired educational design
- 16:15 Manifest Change – Presenting the Manifesto
- 16:30 End of the workshop
Confirm or cancel by January 7th
To reserve your place, please email hello@schoolofcommons.org
Detailed information will be sent out after registration.
Language: English
Groups can work in German and write their outcomes in German
🗣🗣🗣 Save the Date: ‘How to Assemble’
Open to: ALL
School of Commons Assembly, 2025
Saturday, 8 - Sunday, 9 February 2025, all day
Zurich University of the Arts, Pfingstweidstrasse 96
Online or hybrid participation available
The School of Commons (SoC) Assembly 2025 is a two-day facilitated space for gathering, exchange, and the reproduction and circulation of knowledge, experience, and insight. It seeks to question, complicate, and contend with the inquiry: “How to assemble in our current social, political, economic, and ecological times?”
Over the two-days, the SoC Assembly will be organised with dedicated working groups learning and exchanging, as well as a program of exhibitions, lectures, and workshops organised by the SoC Cohort 2025 as part of their end of year showcase as part of a networked structure. The event will culminate in a podium that brings the guest facilitators, SoC participants, and audience together to reflect upon and gather new means, modes, and forms of and for assembling.
Guest Facilitators will be announced in December.
Email hello@schoolofcommons.org to register your place.
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