By Alessandra Pomarico (firefly frequencies, Free Home University, Ecoversities), Nikolay Oleynikov (firefly frequencies, Chto Delat), Elliot Perkins (Ultra-red) “What does it mean to listen? After almost ten years as part of the collective experiment of Free Home University and other learning communities, my answer today would be: to suspend the impulse to find an immediate
By Giulia Crisci, Alessandra Pomarico, Nikolay Oleynikov “This intention and this spirit connect all of us here (and with many beyond the here and now) speaking to how we work, why we produce art, and specifically how we make radio to make a community. “Radio” has been for many of us an autonomous learning zone,
by Rehana Tejpar and Dan Rudolph “Nasruddin, why do you ride a donkey backwards?” “What are you talking about? I’m facing forward. It’s the donkey who’s facing backwards!” – Mulla Nasruddin, a 13th-century wise fool from present day Turkey Beginnings In most parts of the world, humanity is trapped in overlapping systems of power that
Walking in the footsteps of educational visionaries Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed), Ivan Illich (Deschooling Society), and Marshall Rosenberg (Mutual Education), this session begins with grounding in learning as a voluntary and collaborative activity oriented to the needs and capacities of all involved. This, then, serves as the entryway into an exploration of larger
Pre-session texts: [13/06, 12:55] Emilio’s email: My idea is based more on video than live intervention, but of course this is only one of the possible proposals. I think of a meeting where we can present and see our videos well. We decide on a theme. For example: Peace. No words, just videos. We each
Pre-session text: [02/05, 21:14] Emilio’s email: How to be author and spectator at the same time? How can an author control his or her ego without limiting imagination and creativity? How to be a spectator by exceeding our expectations and trying to grasp something that does not belong to us, that is far from our
Pre-session text: [07/04, 15:30] Emilio’s document on drive: Following the thread that led us to investigate time and perception, we are going to consider the relationship between author and viewer. It is always a matter of time and perception, but also of sharing. Screening can determine a non geographical space of identification determined by two
Pre-session text: [20/2, 15:30] Emilio’s email: Sorry for the raw material but I wanted start the process… Waiting for your observations, comments, modifications The theme of perception is directly linked to the one of time, so it is the continuation of the discussion we started in our first AULab session. My last comment before we
PRE-SESSION TEXT (The following is the exchange-conversation that Emilio, Camilo and Marlene (The Ecoversities Audiovisual Lab (AuLab) facilitators) had by email and whatsapp threads, as an initial input and example for the 1st session, that happened on Wednesday February 14th 2024) [2/9, 17:59] Emilio’s email: We have prepared some inputs for reflecting about some aspects
by Françoise Vergès History’s contribution to civic education and awareness is to alert to the existence of entangled histories, to bring light to the ways in which consent to political and economic systems is fabricated, the ways in which racist representations are created and circulated, and how networks of solidarity come to be. The group
El Tejido Ecoversidades es una comunidad de practicantes del aprendizaje de todas partes del mundo, comprometidos a la re-imaginación de la educación superior para culvitvar un florecimiento humano y ecológico en respuesta a los retos críticos de nuestros tiempos.
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