Threads of Investigation: thiscollection

Proposal 2: Ways of knowing and ways of knowing the city

An invitation to anyone involved or interested in how the city is shaped by knowledged.

Conversations towards a summer series of experimental learning situations.

Postponed, details to follow. Glue Factory, Farnell Street

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The second of a series of two events looking at proposals for experiments in education over the summer.
A chance for groups to look at each others proposal in a critical and inventive atmosphere.

Devised in part by Glasgow Open School, Glasgow People’s Assemblies,
The Free Hetherington and thiscollection.

Radical Pedagogies : Institutions

After deindustrialisation Glasgow has come to concentrate on an idea of a knowledge economy.

What is the role of education practices in the knowledge based city?

What do we know about contemporary society, and how have we come to know it?

How do different ways of knowing constitute different notions of what is public in the city?

Space to reflect on the presented manifesto from previous event.

movement from individual to collective reflection, then to interpretation and then a proposal for further action with the question ‘what would we do if we could?’