Footnotes: Annotating the Future of Arts Education
Commission by School of Commons and FAST45Footnotes is a Summer School for academics, professionals, students and curious people organised by School of Commons. It will take place from 29 August to 1 September 2022, on the campus of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Footnotes is conceived as a Live Action Role-Playing Game, which will unfurl from a speculative scenario. Assume a fictional character to interpret and design future realities. No prior experience needed.
Footnotes will be split into three workshop days and two conference days. You can register for the workshops and the conference separately, but you are also welcome to attend both. Choose between seven groups, each exploring a specific theme: Digital Cultures of Education, Art and Society, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity, Knowledge Commons, Institutional Structures and Strategies, Ecological and Social Sustainability, the Institutional vs. the Non-Institutional.
A debrief dinner on the last night will return us back to our present time and allow us to reflect on the ‘lessons learned’ during play.
The story so far ︎︎︎
Registration deadline: 1st of August
WORKSHOPS
29 — 30 AUGUST 9:30-17:00
31 AUGUST 9:30-13:00
The workshop is divided into seven groups, based on the research themes of Footnotes:
DIS/CONTINUITIES [Digital Cultures of Education]
ORGANOLOGY [Art and Society]
CHAOS/MOSIS [Inter- and Transdisciplinarity]
COMMONALITIES [Knowledge Commons]
RE/PROGRAMMING [Institutional Structures and Strategies]
SYMBIOSIS [Ecological and Social Sustainability]
PLASTICITY [Institutional vs. Non-Institutional Education]
Over the course of two and a half days, each group will engage in concentrated, in-depth investigations of the respective theme, departing from an initial prompt. This prompt will be released as a pre-recorded video-lecture before the start of the workshop. It serves as the main body of text, which will undergo annotation, explication and extension in the form of footnotes. The workshops are designed to produce these footnotes, through which different scenarios for the future of arts education are fleshed out.
CONFERENCE 31 AUGUST 2022
16:00-20:00 01 SEPTEMBER 2022 9:30-19:00
The two-day conference will further unpack the proposed research themes, discursively collecting all the footnotes and annotating them anew as an appendix. The workshop groups are invited to share their footnotes (workshop proceedings) in conversation with invited speakers. Additionally, the speakers will respond based on their own practices and experiences.
Day One
16:00 - 16:30 Welcome Apéro
16:30 - 16:40 Welcome Note
16:40 - 17:10 Footnotes: The Prologue 7
17:10 - 18:10 ORGANOLOGY: Art School and Society with School of Intrusions
+ input by Edwin Ramirez, Criptonite
18:10 - 18:30 BREAK
18:30 - 19:30 DIS/CONTINUITIES: Digital Cultures of Education with Baruch Gottlieb
+ input by Clara Balaguer
19:30 - 20:00 Footnotes: Intermission, Outro
16:00 - 16:30 Welcome Apéro
16:30 - 16:40 Welcome Note
16:40 - 17:10 Footnotes: The Prologue 7
17:10 - 18:10 ORGANOLOGY: Art School and Society with School of Intrusions
+ input by Edwin Ramirez, Criptonite
18:10 - 18:30 BREAK
18:30 - 19:30 DIS/CONTINUITIES: Digital Cultures of Education with Baruch Gottlieb
+ input by Clara Balaguer
19:30 - 20:00 Footnotes: Intermission, Outro
Day Two
09:30 - 10:00 Welcome Coffee
10:00 - 10:30 Footnotes: Intermission, Intro
+ input by Brett Neilson
10:30 - 11:30 PLASTICITY: Institutional vs.Non-Institutional Education with Will Furtado, Contemporary&
+ input by Omsk Social Club
11:30 - 12:30 CHAOS/MOSIS: Within and Beyond the Discipline with Thea Reifler & Philipp Bergman, Shedhalle
+ input by manuel arturo abreu
12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH BREAK
13:30 - 14:30 RE/PROGRAMMING: Institutional Structures and Strategies with Lina Dokuzović
+ input by Marta Malo de Molina
14:30 - 15:30 SYMBIOSIS: Ecological and Social Sustainability with Klasse Klima
+ input by Ama Josephine Budge
15:30 - 16:00 BREAK
16:00 - 17:00 COMMONALITIES: Learning from the Commons with Brandy Butler
+ input by Silvia Federici and Jack Hogan
17:00 - 17:30 Footnotes: The Epilogue
17:30 - 19:00 BREAK
19:00 - 21:00 Debrief Dinner
09:30 - 10:00 Welcome Coffee
10:00 - 10:30 Footnotes: Intermission, Intro
+ input by Brett Neilson
10:30 - 11:30 PLASTICITY: Institutional vs.Non-Institutional Education with Will Furtado, Contemporary&
+ input by Omsk Social Club
11:30 - 12:30 CHAOS/MOSIS: Within and Beyond the Discipline with Thea Reifler & Philipp Bergman, Shedhalle
+ input by manuel arturo abreu
12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH BREAK
13:30 - 14:30 RE/PROGRAMMING: Institutional Structures and Strategies with Lina Dokuzović
+ input by Marta Malo de Molina
14:30 - 15:30 SYMBIOSIS: Ecological and Social Sustainability with Klasse Klima
+ input by Ama Josephine Budge
15:30 - 16:00 BREAK
16:00 - 17:00 COMMONALITIES: Learning from the Commons with Brandy Butler
+ input by Silvia Federici and Jack Hogan
17:00 - 17:30 Footnotes: The Epilogue
17:30 - 19:00 BREAK
19:00 - 21:00 Debrief Dinner