School of the Future emerges in Education of Sociology ELC 676 at University of North Carolina
| Name |
What do you want to learn? |
What do you want to teach? |
| Cayce McCamish |
TBD |
TBD |
| Sarah Boberg |
People’s stories; How to incorporate theory and practice in Christian Education through the lens of social justice |
Compassion/understanding and acceptance |
| Britney Mickelson |
I want to learn patience |
I want to teach girls that their bodies and minds belong to them and that they are capable of anything and that each one of them possesses an untapped inner strength that will one day empower them to change the world. |
| Melving Herring |
Give hope where there is none |
Understanding and acceptance of differences |
| Jenny Enter |
I would love to learn how to garden |
How to get more schools involved in gardening |
| Dr. Bettez |
Compassion; to turn anger into peaceful and positive action; to play conga drums |
How to promote equity and social justice embodied learning |
| Nicole Simmons |
How to think differently |
Diversity |
| Nebra Bess |
Learn how to allow my students to be participatory in the teaching process |
How to learn through music and art. |
| Julie Midkiff |
How do we overcome oppression? ; How do we act? |
Social Justice/sociology |
| Deb Greene |
How to peacefully work for change/justice |
Love of reading and writing |
| Amybith Gardener Harlee |
About design/project design |
Expressive arts |
| Ashley |
How to make things pretty |
Using language to promote equity |
| Stephanie |
I want to learn how to be a creative student. |
I want to teach others how to be happy with their new home in America. |
| Christopher Kennedy |
How to operate a small business with other people. Real estate. Carpentry and wood working. |
Urban gardening and composting; how to sew; how to crochet and knit; how to make handstitched books; how to screenprint; making messes with kids.; how to make anything out of cardboard or paper mache |
| James (Skip) Allis |
How to reach the few student of color I have and expand the perceptions of the White ones. |
That math and stats is not evil, and that we all have awesomeness – it is just a matter of letting it show! |
Trust Art and Kidd Yellin present 5 Social Victories, an exhibition dedicated to charting the evidence, processes, communities, and achievements surrounding five visionary public art projects, including the School of the Future by Cassie Thornton and Chris Kennedy, Wildness by Seth Aylmer, Humanity by Anne McClain, Dreamers by Justin Tellian, and Vulture by Dave Olsen.
The Opening Reception will be held on Friday, September 17th at 7:00 pm with the exhibition on view from September 17th-26th, 2010. Kidd Yellin is located in Red Hook at 133 Imlay St. Brooklyn, NY 11231
August 16th, 2pm | McCarren Park, Brooklyn (N. 12th and Driggs by the Dog Run)
To inaugurate the relaunch of the Groups and Spaces website join us for a performative lecture and tea in McCarren Park, Brooklyn! Designers, Janette Kim and Josh Draper, have designed and built a physical library unit to transport the entries into real space and time. They call the unit – the Mason Jar Cart after John L. Mason who has helped us hermetically seal jam since 1858. The cart serves a dual purpose – as an archival unit for Groups and Spaces and also as a social laboratory that invites people to explore and share their knowledge of artist groups and spaces in their community.
We will be debuting the Mason Jar Cart August 16th in McCarren Park for a workshop on the Groups and Spaces project and ongoing research from School of the Future. We will meet by the Dog Run and Greendome on N. 12th and Driggs in Brooklyn. Please join us and help spread the word!
Here are some bits that came in from the Mutant Student Groups think tank sessions in July 2010. Note the seedball plants growth, and that other growth we’re not sure what it is, but that’s why they call it “mutant” after all!
The final hours of School of the Future (Sgt. Dougherty Park, Greenpoint, Brooklyn) included some pretty wonderfully fantastically awesome moments, including drawing dictators, ballet jumping, human-size chess, time capsules, making a model city out of trash sourced from the park itself, and of course the Ungraduation ceremony during which the Head Librarian Chris Kennedy announced,
YOU HAVE ALL FAILED!
Indeed we did. Keep watching this blog and website for future School of the Future news. We’ll be uploading some post-School curriculum and content in the coming days and years ahead. Never stop un-learning!
Emceed by the orally-gifted Daupo, artists Douglas Paulson and Santo Talone are battling it out – to the death! – in a match of human-size chess!
Santo flipped for white and went first; Doug countered with a first-move pawn stalemate.
Doug drew first blood with a knight on knight attack, on the white side of the board.
“Everyone agrees, chess is confusing when it’s people.”
&
“Let’s take this moment to reflect on the history of feudalism.” – Daupo
both Queens have been removed for some time now – they were sort of mutually removed in a double-attack move by both players.
some time has passed since I took the first photo. Each side have 6 pawns remaining; Black have two bishops and one rook, while White has both rooks. The moves are taking longer to decide.
A dance party just broke out on the chess board, courtesy of a R&B boombox!
There are cheers – clearly someone has just died!
“final gesture before their monarch falls”
Black has lost one of their bishops while White have sacrificed a rook for the glory of their King.
a fatal error by White – Santo failed to recognize a take-bishop and subsequently lost his last knight.
After a near-hour of slow-decisions and a dozen checks, Doug (black) wins.
That’s right, for all you e-students who want to e-un-learn, now you can! It’s your Social Netleisure director Nick Normal writing live from the School of the Future in Sgt. Dougherty Park, Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Tune in to this post and any that follow for the next few hours as we wrap up and close out classes – for the summer, and forever!
we like their analysis that un-education is on the rise: Easy-to-draw dictators and other courses for all ages
Today is the final weekday school day of classes, and tomorrow, 31 July 2010, will be the final-final day of classes, and it will be a JAMboREE! So many simultaneous classes, so many activities, and a lot of dancing! Come, help us celebrate the overwhelming success of your un-education!
12pm – Irish Ceili Dancing
1pm – Interactive Hegelian Lordship and Bondage
2pm – How to Say Goodbye: Hair Extension
2pm – Ballet
2pm – THE DEBT LAYERCAKE: WHO OWES WHO WHAT AND WHY
2:30pm – Learning Language Guerilla Style
3pm – Human Size Chess
4pm – Easy-to-Draw Dictators
4:30pm – Ticking Time Capsules
5pm – Movement for Seniors
7pm – Graduation Ceremonies and Potluck
Thursday, 29 July
7pm
School of the Future will be hosting artist Mourrice Papi to present a discussion on art during our weekly Illustration from Inside class.
Mourrice primarily practices the art forms of film, photography, and music to define his inner artistic language. While based in NYC, his path has taken him across continents and this Thursday he will share his insight and findings with us. Come, be engaged, be entertained, be inspired!!!
Mourrice’s work can be seen at http://www.mpapiphotography.com
this Saturday someone will die playing the age-old game of chess:
Saturday July 31st
3 pm
Renowned Italian conceptual artist & two-time Milano Chess Invitational Champion Santo Talone will face-off against locally lauded Douglas Paulson in Greenpoint’s 1st Annual Human Chess-to-the-Death Match.
Please join these competitors on the sidelines, or better yet: on the battlefield. It will take nerves of steel to be one of the 32 pieces. This is not an exercise in standing still. There will be dance moves, cussing, war-cries, face painting, and many many secret tricks up your sleeves. (Those sleeves, drinks, and tricks will be provided.)
To participate in this cruel game of wits, please contact: doug@douglaspaulson.com
Come friends and join us at 4:45 in the “little morning” (as the French say, the AM as we say in NYC) on Friday, July 23rd at School of the Future in Bushwick/Greenpoint for this first iteration of Dawn School. Coffee and breakfast will be served.
Premise: When precisely does the day begin? When does all the night drain away? Greeting these longest days of the year, Dawn School is a special research project of School of the Future that endeavors to awaken the days themselves with illustrated investigations into their light and shadow-filled ways. The Homeric legends speak of dawn’s rosy fingers — and how rosy it is indeed as the dark grey sludge bodies of the neighboring Newtown Creek, the Maspeth Industrial Food Warehouse District, the Greenpoint Truck Empire spread their morning legs to let their lover the sun in again, and again, and again. Dawn school proposes, for this installment, a field trip poised between late night and early morning, to encourage such activities as: scuro-chiaro drawings (drawings begun in the dark and finished in the light), discussions of the etymological and ontological sources of dawn, dawns, dawning. We might build a morning bird call catalog, meet the nightworkers of the area, the bakers, truck drivers, transit workers, cleaning crews, and attempt the delicate art of sunblocking which will raise an enormous shade to push the sunrise back one hour. Dawn school is poised like the sun itself to be accessible and open to all: from the office worker to the night worker to the roustabout, all are invited to join us in surprising the day.
On this first installment of the Dawn School, hosted at the School of the Future’s Sgt. Doherty Park Location on July 23rd, and in the surrounding area, we will set out to catalog the sound of the night clearing the path for the day, day shoving the idle pedestrians of night out of its way, the morning breaking like an empty bottle over the head of our fast asleep home. We will set out on a hike early in the morning, to trace the path through the early dawn and into sunrise, collecting bits of an after-sunrise breakfast to be shared at SOTF at around 8. Email your phone number to gauthier [dot] dylan [at ] gmail [dot] com to RSVP, find details on where to meet, what to bring, and to get a wake up call.
Date Jul 23, 2010
SunRISE 5:44 AM
Sunset 8:20 PM
Length of Day 14h 35m 55s
Difference from Yesterday− 1m 42s
Solar Noon Time 1:02 PM
Altitude 69.3°
Distance 151.964
No joke! Last week’s class “Inner beauty/ Individuality- What should YOUR sash say?” asked the following, “What should you be recognized for? What makes you beautiful? We want to know! Join some local pageant queens for an afternoon of recognition as we celebrate our individuality and create pageant-style sashes to commemorate what makes you awesome.”
And it just so happens that Miss New York 2010 herself, Claire Buffie, stopped by and thinks the school rocks! And everyone in attendance was awarded their own sashes of personal beauty and crowned in their own right:
This week’s and weekend’s classes look really exciting – so exciting it’s hard to find a favorite. You can unlearn everything from illustration to playground design to how to build a flying saucer! Saturday especially is an action-packed day with over a dozen hours of programming in one school day! It’s going to be like learning awesome in real-time!
Thursday July 22
9:30am Monitor School
10am Garden Ecology Game
12pm Prismatic Textbooks of the Future
12:30pm Rebuilding the City
3pm What is the history of this neighborhood?
6pm How to Question- Creative Surveys
7pm Chess
7pm Illustration from Inside
7pm Object, Processing, and Material; wholistic thinking and design
9pm Poetry in the Dark on the Walls
Friday July 23
Pre-sunrise o’Clock Dawn School
9:30am Monitor School
3pm Buckminster Fuller, Playground Design and You!
3:30pm Street Law 101
4pm Ginger: Why is it the best thing?
6pm Teaching reflectzone
7pm How to Make a Walking Library
Saturday July 24
1pm Flying Saucer Technology: Past and Present
1pm Question Maps
2pm How to curate a show anywhere
3pm Prove (or Disprove) the Existence of God
3:30pm Urban Wind-chiming
4pm Easy-to-Draw Dictators
5pm Movement for Seniors
6pm Exploring Music
6pm Hide Your Ordinary Face and Open Your Flower
6pm Mutant Student Groups ThinkTank
7pm Philosophy of Healing
Sunday July 25
12pm Mutant Student Groups Thinktank
5:30pm Is teaching YOUR art practice? Show and tell.
7pm Stand in the Place
Just in case you’ve wondered what that yurt is for, or why there are so many people asking questions and interviewing you – it’s because School of the Future is an action-research project! Our intentions are to document how art invigorates the teaching/learning process. So as a student body and as a faculty member of the future, your mere presence contributes to our active research of what a better education could be, what a school could be and what teaching and learning may look like in the future. If you haven’t had a chance to give us some feedback – you can online! Click here and fill out a BRIEF survey.
Announcing your starting lineup:
Allison Faye: Allison is heading up research endeavors for the School of the Future. She is also developing a professional development tool called Visual Concepting Strategies.
Andrea Jaeger: Andrea Jaeger is an artistic researcher constantly testing the boundries of the medium of photography. In addition to a Masters in Communication Studies from the University of Applied Sciences Berlin, she graduated at the University of Westminster, London with a Master in Photographic Studies. Born 1978 in Germany, she currently works and lives in Zurich/London. www.jaegerimages.com
Richard Diaz: Richard makes art across a range of media including drawing, painting, carved stone and wood. This reflects his curiosity and enjoyment responding to the qualities of different materials. He is currently a graduate student at Queens College.
Christopher Kennedy: Christopher is the head librarian at School of the Future and directs the Institute for Applied Aesthetics.
Katherine Jernejec:(Study Hall Monitor) Katherine Jernejec received her BFA in Fashion Design from Kent State University in 2004 and is attending the School of Visual Arts Art Education MFA program in Fall 2010. After spending five years designing menswear for clothing companies like Triple Five Soul and Target she decided to focus her attention on the education of children. Insects, x-rays, textures, and textiles are common subject matters in her own artwork as a painter and printmaker.
Monica Cohen: Monica is an artist/educator and life-long learner who graduated from Queens College in Art Education. Working primarily in ceramics, she enjoys using nature, world culture and good people as inspiration.
Mary Deas: Mary is currently enrolled in the Art Education program at Queens College. She lives and works on Long Island, giving nature talks and tours for camps and school groups.
Print in the Park
July 16th, 10am
(Teacher: Kate Goyette) This class will utilize methods of relief printmaking to investigate Sgt. Dougherty Park, its surrounding neighborhood, and community.
Park Studio
July 16th, 1pm-6pm
Consider Sgt. Dougherty Park your studio for the day, come make things with us and learn how to use new tools.
Solar Powered Lights
July 16th, 5:30pm (NOTE: Subject to change depending on weather)
(Teacher: Philip Stearns) Join Phil as he shows us how to make solar powered lights for School of the Future. (Note: This is a re-scheduled session from last week)
Minds in the Gutter
July 16th, 7pm
Minds in the Gutter is a workshop where we’ll brainstorm stormwater management ideas along the border of Sgt. Dougherty park. The first part will be walking meditation, then a drawing and pin-up session, then we’ll we make a chalk or rubble-scraping.
Radical Library Sciences
July 16th, 7:30pm
(Chris Kennedy) A multi-part experiment in cataloging, consultation and re-imagining of library infrastructure in public space anchored by the Groups and Spaces Unreference Desk.
This week at school we are continuing the steady building of the school. The theme of the week? Revolution through teaching. Teachers are encouraged to play with their method: HOW can you teach what you teach? Would it be better if you were dressed in period costume? Let’s do it.
Revolutionary moments are building– let the spirit of experimentation move you!
Some observations of revolutionary teaching practices include: total installations (immerse students in a sensory experience), undoing gender, escaping monologues, forgetting to sit, remembering to wear costumes, learning while making, etc. Teaching is an art practice. Download our Teaching/Learning Guide Here (PDF)
this workshop will culminate in a group performance where participants will develop a celebration based upon their personal traditions or newly developed celebration or memorial.
We will all stand in a line, leaning against each other, the person behind us supporting our weight. The last person will be leaning against a tree. Then.
…we do some moon salutes before disbanding in a parade of bicycles, dropping people off one by one at their homes, and then…
I am here to learn as much as I can from everyone else and to show them what they’ve taught me in inverted form.
Kate invited me.
And FATE.
Everyone will place their feet in soil and stretch their arms to the sky. Take a deep breath. Stretch down and extend each finger into the soil, slowly and continuously until you are well.
Massages while music is played.
We need to give ourselves free and Authentic time to be fully present.
We will enjoy a siesta in the shade.
as the third week of classes is about to begin at School of the Future (our work week begins on Thursday you see!), we want to remind you about how we all depend on each other for support and learning:
