How can we organise ourselves differently in today’s capital-driven society? Are there ways of structuring our organisations that engage in new ways of world-making? How do we make a living? And who are our support networks?
For our second conversation we have invited Annelys de Vet — designer, educator and researcher to reflect and share insights on her experience initiating the temporary MA on Disarming Design at the Sandberg institute; which was committed to design practices in situations of oppression, acting on the overlap of design, crafts, politics, pedagogy, community, and poetry and we are eager to know how it felt to work in an already established institution. **Annelys will be joining us over the world wide web.
Annelys has also co-founded the thought provoking design platform Disarming Design from Palestine and has initiated the publishing initiative Subjective Editions that map countries from inside out, by the inhabitants themselves; including Subjective Atlas of Colombia (2015), Subjective Atlas of Brussels (2018), and Subjective Atlas of Pakistan (2018). Her body of work explores the role of design in relation to the public and political discourse, in order to develop methods, structures, and tools that feed agency through design for a pluralist society.
Weaving Practices – learning together how to organise differently, is a conversation series initiated by school of other nows (soon) that wishes to hold transdisciplinary and intergenerational forums so that in the process of school-dreaming-up, we can (all) learn with (!) those who have chosen to stand at the margins of conventionality and have designed alternative ways of being/making/teaching/living.
About school of other nows (soon) (still taking shape) — experimenting as a school-to-be (soon) dreams of holding space to critically move beyond polarisation and headline culture by building an infrastructure of solidarity across varying points of views, ages and life experiences. Our dream is to collectively challenge what is comfortable to become vulnerable — as we nourish and encourage acts of curiosity, imagination, experimentation, cooperation, decolonization and rest.