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The Plum Academy: Resources
An Institute for Situated Practices
September 11 – October 23, 2009
Opening Reception: September 11, 6–9 p.m., free
Resources
We've assembled a list of links to radical and critical education resources, as well as other experimental school models. This is by no means exhaustive, just useful.
- Bauhaus on Wikipedia
- Black Mountain College
- The Bruce High Quality Foundation University, see also: NY Times article on the BHQFU
- The Center for Urban Pedagogy
- College of Tactical Culture at Eyebeam, NYC
- Descent to Revolution at the Bureau for Open Culture
- The Flying University
- Hidden Curriculum: a Casco Project
- The Learning Site
- The Mountain School of Arts
- New Museum: Night School
- The Non-Stop Institute of Yellow Springs
- The Public School
- The Radical Education Collective
- Summerhill school (beware cheesy MP3 on load)
- Sundown Schoolhouse
- The Think Tank That Has Yet to Be Named: A Conversation on Art Activism and Education
- Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School
Texts
Some of these texts are found in the Plum Library at SPACES
- AREA Chicago: Issue #5: How We Learn
- AULABIERTA: a Collective Model of Rhizomatic Pedagogy by Javier Rodrigo Montero
- Critical Pedagogy on Wikipedia
- Free School on Wikipedia
- Manifesta 6
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed (first 3 chapters) by Paulo Freire
- Radical Teacher
- Sociograms of the Pedagogical Processes of 11 Art(s) Groups by Javier Rodrigo Montero
Audio
This audio can be heard in the Plum Listening Library at SPACES
- Bad At Sports: Episode 85: Art Schoolin’ Extravaganza!! + BONUS: Art School Confidential
- Bad At Sports: Episode 101: Jim Duignan / The Stockyard Institute / The Pedagogical Factory
- Bad At Sports: Episode 191: James Elkins
- Chicago Amplified: How We Learn (with The Pedagogical Factoy and AREA Chicago)
- DIY University
- Frieze Talks: Art & Theory: Art Education Today
The Plum Academy
Rather than house a traditional exhibition of objects, SPACES organized a school-as-exhibition. Concepts and ideas take the forefront, rather than materials, styles and conventional aesthetics. Specially selected facilitators from the regional community and beyond lead forums that approach topics obliquely, find unique entry points to ideas and challenge the established structures of education.
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