Notes from the conference Global Academy?

From Sam Thorne's lecture Art School Confidential

Last weekend, the Academy had guests from various parts of the world such as Dhaka, Amman, Arnheim, London... Hildegund Amanshauser, Sabine B. Vogel, Simone Wille have been working for 1.5 years to realize this conference. They were curious: "How do other institutions in the world deal with contemporary art education?"

 

Self organized, artist-curator run platforms/schools/organizations RAW Material Company, SOMA, The Silent University, Samdani Seminars, Open School East, Casa Tres Patios, ruangrupa and Triangle Network prepresented their understanding of education and structures they've built. Inevitably, problems  vary, depending on the geography or country the platfrom/school is placed.

 

As you have already recognized that the title of the conference ends with a question mark. Seeking new forms for art education drags lots of questions in tow, indeed. Therefore, I've decided to write down some of the questions that were posed during the presentations and discussions besides some keywords.

 

Questions:

 

What kind of exchange is possible between these new models?

How come critical thinking can be presented?

 

What is your programme?

How do you develop it?

Who are your lecturers?

Who is your audience?

 

What constitutes the local in relation to global?

Isn't the word "global" problematic per se?

Where does the notion of global come from?

How to find new finds of getting money not only one sponsor?

How are the funds constructed?

 

Notes:

structuring thinking

collective learning center

how to sweep away hierarchy

Not replacing an institutional setting but adding a layer

Rethinking alternative methods for the current education system

Degrees validation qualification

Pablo Helgueara's idea: transpedagogy

Internationalism

expanding locality

 

The problematics of terminology... As the Koyo Kouoh from RAW Material Company said: "We are all struggling those words." how to use these already existing words in a new context with different intentions

 

Exchanging the curriculum

Collaborations for long-term researches

Dealing with same subjects in different local contents

 

 

Challenges of the futures

Visions

 

 

Financial problems

The importance of independence of funding money, finding new forms of finding funding

Politics of funding

Political correctness

Infiltrate

Hacking

Parasithic element

Borrowing

Superimposing

 

Updating the pedagogic heritage

Sharing instead of being competitive

 

Censorship