Imagining Commoniversity; 28-29-30 march; Chelsea Collage of Arts & Design; London

I´m curating a serie of workshops with Emanuele Guidi for the Visualizing Transnationalism  project in the frame of Transeuropa Festival:

"Imagining Commoniversity"

Hackitectura.net 

London. 28-29-30 march
Pablo de Soto (hackitectura.net), Alejandro González (60rpm.tv)
Coordinated by Emanuele Guidi and Lorenzo Sandoval
Chelsea Collage of Arts & Design

The workshop "Imagining Commoniversity" by Hackitectura.net in London will take place in the context of the project Visualizing Transnationalism. The workshop takes as starting point the assumption of University as a Common to engage with the recent university protests in the UK (due to the taxes increase) as well as the European movements experience that emerged in the last years to tackle the Bologna process issue. As a temporary laboratory, the workshop will join, continue and collaborate with exisiting european group "Commoniversity" that met at Universidad Libre de La Rimalla in Barcelona last november.

Hackitectura.net, will direct the research towards the future and try to imagine how a common University in Europe could look like, how it should work and what should be its role in society. Through mapping strategies, open collective discussions and the implementation of new media technologies, Hackitectura.net will work on the experience and the tradition of a British group such as Archigram, to sketch and design the ‘vision’ of an ideal and utopian Common University of the future.

The workshop will be open to a registered audience (max 20 people) with an interest in education/university, new media technologies, activism, mapping techniques, art and architecture.

Hackitectura.net (represented by Pablo de Soto and Alejandro González) coordinated by Emanuele Guidi and Lorenzo Sandoval will follow different approaches during the workshop:

* Presenting the philosophy and the research behind the practice of Hackitectura.net. Looking at the experiences of avant-garde free-universities and utopian architects as Archigram. Presenting the history and contemporary practices on data visualization.

* Mapping contemporary practices and initiatives emerging in the last years in Europe.

* A more local focus on the London and UK situation, the actual crisis and the protest movements so as to start a critical reflection on themes, priorities and urgencies that should characterize the University.

* The methodoloy of the workshop will include the use of n-1, an autonomus and distributed digital social network set up by the hacker and free software movement as a tool for activists to organize and improve knowledge production.

* One or more images will be produced in forms of maps and/or plan to research a possible representation of a common university. Augmented reality, through Quick Recognition Codes (Qr codes) will be employed as tool to open a dialogue between a more classical form of map/plan/drawing with the resources available in the internet space.

* One or more poster will be printed as in the following weeks as final result of the workshop and will be presented together with other posters produced within the context of Visualizing Transnationalism. The posters will be displayed in different cities of the Transeuropa Festival both in form of ‘take-away’ installation and hanged in different public spaces and festival venues.

* A presentation of the workshop will be presented during the festival at the Home of the Festival in London and possibly a second presentation will be arranged in a second city (to be confirmed).

+ info here.