Within our education and pedagogy cluster we attempted to draw on a number of the diverse, repeating themes that appeared in discussion with the broader group, such as; what knowledge counts as authoritative and academic? Who is deemed capable of teaching others, and what is the role of the student? …
The Future of our University course began with no template. We had all the choices in the world, but also all the difficulty of choosing. After working as one group for the first few sessions, we found that we needed to split into smaller groups based on interest to really …
Hi everyone! Here are some blog posts by members of the casualization group that we drafted up as a summary of what we found during our interviews with tutors at the university. We carried out six semi-structured interviews across departments in the university. We hope these shed some light on …
We created the Casualization (formerly called ‘Bureaucratization’) group because we wanted to engage critically with the university administration in an academic and a creative way. The group started meeting early on in the development of the course to plan our project and research our topic together. At the beginning of …
On Thursday in week 4, Gray and Lærke visited the PCC and asked for advise to go ahead from the meeting earlier in the week. Here are general notes from that meeting. Feb 15, 2019
Attendees: Laerke and Lucie Conceptual objective: Designing the university from a permaculture perspective/utopian Guidelines in space and curriculum Take into account the more theoretical work of pedagogy and bureaucracy groups What does already exist? Link with some projects already existent (estate department, development project in KB) Spatial focus: KB …
Message from Neil Mulholland re: workshop on 23 Jan. Hi Sophia (L), The students don’t need to bring anything with them. I will trigger a paragogic workshop for them to follow. It will run over 1hr. I’m not going to let them know what it is in advance, I just …
Over these past months (and before), I have been thinking about several aspects of the way we organize learning in the university and more generally that I find inimical to real learning, as well as to collective action. These are: the way education divides up people by age, generation and …
I’ve been meaning to post a link on a previous project – both for the food group – though maybe aslo be of general interest as some of the ideas from there have also made it into this course! PARFS was a two year project working with students and staff …
