The Living School
Pedagogical practices and educational collaborations, The Living School acts as a general framework for activities in teaching, learning and doing-it-together. The School was originally developed as part of a residency at the South London Gallery in 2014 and summer 2016 with artist Brandon LaBelle in collaboration with friends and colleagues. The project was part of the ongoing outreach activities organized by the Gallery, specifically addressing local residents living in nearby housing estates. Resulting in four one-day sessions between February – June 2016, the Living School brought together artists and academics, researchers and activists, to share and work through a number of questions focused on the living conditions and future visions of the contemporary neoliberal city. The aim was to create an experimental framework for nurturing shared discussions and embodied knowledge that could support critical housing work. This included a situated approach, in which each session was held in particular institutional and community settings across the city.
Following the residency, the Living School continues as a base for initiating workshops, seminars, co-learning and research activities focusing on ideas and expressions of self-building, poor pedagogy, listening and dialogical practices, and poetic-theorizing.