The School of Everything, was a symposion presented in context of Documenta 14 in Kassel (11.-13.6.2017) and Athens (6.-7.7.2017) and bringing together participants from scholarly, artistic and activist backgrounds. The participants act within education and invent new educational formats understood as research-based activist works of art. They develop anti-border, open source and horizontal knowledge-sharing platforms. They engage either as practitioners and reformers or theoreticians with radical pedagogy from a historical and philosophical point of view. Participants from various initiatives and institutions are invited to fantasize and share their ground-breaking visions on a future planetary education while working together for the formation of a new collective curriculum. The School of Everything is a model for the university of the Twenty-first Century, for which universal learning is a mode of existence and the core of emancipation. The Kantian „dare to know“ can only mean a „know to dare.“ The School of Everything becomes the School of Everyone.
The symposion focuses on contemplative and generalized explanations on art-as-education, which enables an enfolding of systemically hidden complexities. It relates to concrete examples of alternative educational formats or sudden dynamics and unexpected proposals while discussing and creating a common curriculum to be proposed to educational institutions in our reach. Participants of the symposion will debate on newly developed formats of art-as-education aiming at the distribution of new fields of discourse, which replace the Empire's patterns of thought and its established academic disciplines. The symposion adheres to compassion, ethical responsibility, transdisciplinarity, gender neutrality, subaltern discourses and creative figuration, as well as a double conjoining: on the one hand, the merging of scientific knowledge with the humanities, on the other, the merging of theory with practice. The symposion focuses on creating future art schools, which may function as the grounding force and a new educational paradigm.
The School of Everything was organised by Autonomi Akadimia and AthenSYN.
The symposion focuses on contemplative and generalized explanations on art-as-education, which enables an enfolding of systemically hidden complexities. It relates to concrete examples of alternative educational formats or sudden dynamics and unexpected proposals while discussing and creating a common curriculum to be proposed to educational institutions in our reach. Participants of the symposion will debate on newly developed formats of art-as-education aiming at the distribution of new fields of discourse, which replace the Empire's patterns of thought and its established academic disciplines. The symposion adheres to compassion, ethical responsibility, transdisciplinarity, gender neutrality, subaltern discourses and creative figuration, as well as a double conjoining: on the one hand, the merging of scientific knowledge with the humanities, on the other, the merging of theory with practice. The symposion focuses on creating future art schools, which may function as the grounding force and a new educational paradigm.
The School of Everything was organised by Autonomi Akadimia and AthenSYN.
