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School of Commons
School of Commons Initiative located at the Zurich University of the Arts, List of Community Members
2019
Keywords: peer learning, collaborative and non-hierarchical knowledge production
Threads: Learning, Cooperating with(in) arts and culture
Short description
Research is conducted in three labs (LEARN, MAPP, and READ), all of which are run as peer-based collaborative endeavours with annually changing members.
Personal appreciation
Nevertheless it must be noted that even if this „free and alternative“ selection process exists, most of the contributors are people with a strong academic background.
Contribution to the "Who knows?" handbook
Moreover, the content of the published pieces also resonates with the issues we are sensitive to in SHAKIN as they address topics like archives, ecology, transcultural collaboration etc.
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Additional Information
Location | Online Switzerland |
Original language(s) | English |
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Project runtime | - |
Institution of affiliation | Zurich University of the Arts |
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Creative Commons
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The project recognises that art practices can dislocate the usual hierarchies of what should or should not be learned and that knowledge does not have to be based on accumulation, but rather on sharing and mutual learning.
DETER
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