What kinds of knowledge exist inside and outside the classroom? Are they all treated equally? What happens to what is left unsaid? How can we in-corporate collective and embodied knowledge into the standardized space of Education? How can we move from arts as content to artistic practice as methodology?
In the summer of 2020, within the framework of Boombeta, this course was held for primary, secondary, and high school teachers from the La Marina neighborhood. The course is officially recognized by the Department of Education of the Government of Catalonia as part of ongoing professional development.
Working outside the classroom means breaking with traditional learning structures (classroom, students, “teacher”, studying, exams, pass, fail). To escape the idea that education has become disconnected from experience, Out of Class is conceived as a space for creators and educators to meet, experiment, and think together—a place for collective decision-making and perhaps to transform what no longer serves us. We want to rethink the classroom and open it up to unexpected learning, to overflow its boundaries, break free from its domestication, and reach places we do not yet know. That’s why we’ll take to the streets and the neighborhood to explore the relationship between pedagogy and public space—as non-standardized environments where other forms of learning can be rediscovered.
At a time when educational practices seem threatened by productivity, we want to imagine pedagogical laboratories as spaces of freedom and encounter with others, where education can serve purposes beyond the accumulation of knowledge. Out of Class aimed to explore other possible forms of education built from listening to context, the imagination sparked by boredom, and attentiveness to the body.
- Session 1: The body is the site of experience. Led by AIMAR PÉREZ GALÍ
- Session 2: Let’s not waste time. Led by SONIA GÓMEZ
- Session 3: An invitation to undomesticated movement. Led by SERGI FAUSTINO
- Session 4: Transfers. Led by FERNANDO GANDASEGUI
From July 1 to 4, 2020, at Graner, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.