A New School, A Summer School — (Re)imagining Learning Environments

The six-day A New School, A Summer School — (Re)imagining Learning Environments brought together students and graduates from twelve different art universities across Germany and Austria for an intensive exchange on learning utopias. Through workshops with external guests, daily plenary sessions, video screenings, movement exercises, and self-organized working groups, the Summer School became a space to collectively imagine alternative forms of learning.

We understood utopia not as a distant, idealized future, but as the shifting, experimenting with, and making visible of (small) everyday actions in the here and now. In this spirit, sharing meaningful learning experiences and the Access Rider Workshop by Ren Loren Britton—where we collectively gathered our access needs—were just as much a part of our shared (un)learning process as doing the dishes, reading from the reader, kneading (and digesting) yeast dough, napping on the picnic blanket, and dancing while singing karaoke.