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Minutes for 03/04/19
Week 22, 3 April 2019

Minutes for 03/04/19

Here are the minutes for last week’s session, sorry I didn’t post sooner!

Futures course agenda 03/04/2019

Apologies Laerke, Chawon, Lucie (Cara and Rufus will be a bit late)

30 minutes on admins, assigning reviewers for final work, make website public, course review, final session?

  • Minutes made public as be interesting to look into; more good content on discussion regarding the course, points we’ve made and discussions that we’ve had => minute takers look back at previous minutes, recreate agenda for that meeting and the structure of the session => write a short summary of the minutes if you want, this could be the public version. Bullet point list also work.
    • Perhaps change slightly for staff members, and we need to think about what has been said made public => some are fine, some needed to be checked.
    • Make a post regarding the making public the website and explain how we have changed minutes and notes etc. No need for huge amount of work.
    • If one person has done too many minutes then can pass over to Niamh/Sophia who can do it.
  • Deadline of 10th may for reviewing their WordPress posts (same as review)
  • Create a working group to work on the website => 17th may at 2pm ? 14th May at 2pm => likely 18 Buccleuch Place.
  • Publicised through blogs and SPS emailing list and weekly update => think of more places and ways of publicising. Big websites/forums etc on radical pedagogy that we could get in contact with?
    • Will the next year’s course use the website? Will this be a time capsule? Re-structure the website so it can contain all of our posts from every year? Sophia will ask the webpeople.
  • Should we fill in the course evaluation? Seems a bit pointless and counter to our approach in the course => but would look bad if no-one filled it in. So would be good if we fill it in but comment that this is the case
  • How will we be involved next year? Should we ask them? Run a pass-over session to let them know?
    • Quite a few of us want to be involved in the course; maybe take the course for additional credits, or just get involved in a slightly more distant way.
  • Last session? How are we going to be working on the projects =>
    • Update from projects
      • May 2nd for Education group => will meet beforehand to finalise our workshop.
      • Project groups to post on the website about their work and the process. => May the 14th for groups to post
      • Permaculture group => Zine will be ready soon and can go on the website, and then will meet to have a workshop (might not be done by the 14th as Zine will definitely be done)
      • Bureaucracy group => portfolio of resources and work, writing a piece for the Student, reach out to UCU and build campaign on casualisation => will meet again to plan things further
        • Student newspaper to do a whole piece on tutors and their work will be shared with the project group.
      • Rory discussed Anarchist pedagogy and education schools within Spain and its long-historical process and remanants today
        • Anarchism often unfolds and occurs but not occurred as such
        • Criticality; people call themselves critical and engaged in radical and critical theory and assessment but not actually engaged at all in critical work and distance themselves from real critical and revolutionary practice => thinking alienated from actual practice and exploration => appropriation of critical frameworks, education and structures without it being really engaged and praxis is abandoned => need to actually announce the agenda we have when we are working and the underlying values we have and really engage them. Don’t hold the façade that everything can be incorporated and just be open with political commitments.
          • Provicialise criticality and allow it to actually have an agenda!
        • Section from interview with Jacobin mag with Kristin Ross from Sophia (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/05/kristin-ross-communal-luxury-paris-commune/)
          • Destroying and overcoming the division of labour between making and thinking; university was a highly exclusionary space but also autonomous space; create settings for sharing and drawing on resources and overcoming the normal boundaries which assume suffering, boredom and alienation of staff and students who have to be disciplined into doing work => exhausts us to try and do things differently and deadlines and bureaucracy thus drain us all the more; a double oppression. We need time to learn how to use our time in radical ways and not be burnt out and carry the baggage of oppression into these spaces with us.
          • (Gray) This course fits within the wider structures of the university and thus although we really want to be radical, energetic and challenging we are drained and fighting against the rest of our environment; perhaps have meditation on expectations and reflections on the course itself; having time to reflect at the beginning of the session. Should celebrate our opportunities to do something amazing and creative; constantly keep questioning our process, assumptions and expectations.
          • Radical joy, collective festivals and celebration as central to radical movements and sharing knowledge.
        • Radical word association!
        • Rufus Appears!
        • Names picked to respond to reviews

 

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One comment

  1. Lucie

    Thanks for the minutes and for the reflections. It seemed to be very thought-provoking, would have loved to hear all of your thoughts. Thank you for this year !

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