The Public School
An alternative school without a curriculum that offers free classes in various locations worldwide and hosts an online library.
Chalkboard after "Continental Drift / Control Society / Metamorphosis"
Seminar "There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing..."
Initiator(s)
Telic Arts Exchange
Description
The Public School is an independent and alternative school with no curriculum which does not give any degrees. Throughout its website, users you can find classes happening in various locations all over the world for free. Related to the school is the online library aaaaarg.fail which offers texts, outside institutional frameworks for studying despite the restrictions of copyright. Boards and thematic lists of texts are organised by users.
Goals
It is a framework that supports autodidactic activities, operating under the assumption that ‘everything is in everything’.
Beneficial outcomes
People have the opportunity to ask for classes and the school finds a teacher, offering the class to those who signed up.
Location
United States, Germany, Belgium, Finland, Puerto Rico, United Kingdom, Austria
Users
Telic Arts Exchange (TAE), Sean Dockray, users of the school
Maintained by
First Independent; Van Alen Institute (The Public School (for Architecture) New York; Komplot in Brussels; Ptarmigan in Helsinki; Betalocal in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Duration
2007 - ongoing
Category
Scientific
Pedagogical
Politics
Urban Development
Economy
Environment
Social
