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Relearn is a summerschool which welcomes persons, artists, students, teachers from all backgrounds and disciplines. The participants meet to learn from and teach to each other, beyond the traditional paradigms of education. Free, Libre and Open Source Software plays a fundamental role at Relearn, as it facilitates a different approach to the tools we commonly use in our practices and lives. Through such an approach we better understand the influence that the tools themselves exert on the way they are used, or the different social relations and economies that are formed between who creates and who uses them. Such a questioning approach to technology feels urgent in a time in which more and more social, political and personal issues are addressed by solely technological means.
In continuation with the previous editions, Relearn will research convivial, experimental and deviant methods and means in the fields of design, computing and education, challenging the normal roles and separations in them (teacher/student, developer/user, art/life...).

You are welcome to join Relearn from the 20th of August till the 25th. It will take place in Bruxelles, at Zinneke ( http://zinneke.org ).
To participate, please send an e-mail to registration@relearn.be before July 1st, including a few lines about your interest in the summer school, what you want to bring, what you hope to find.

please beware that there is a limited number of places,
and also please answer these question if you can :

Can you host someone (if you live in Brussels)?
Do you need hosting / might you know someone to host ?
Have you specificic needs for yourself ?
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The technological element ??? questioning what it consists of, how it 'functions', and challenging the traditional narratives on it. Faced with the hegemonic ideology that suggests to deal with any social, political and personal problem through a technological solution, it feels urgent to rework the assumptions and conceptions we have of technology.
Relearn is a summerschool in which participants from different fields in art, theory and design meet to share their knowledge in an attempt to divert the from the traditional paradigms of education.
Free, Libre and Open Source Software play a fundamental role at Relearn, as F/LOSS and its culture can facilitate different approaches to the tools we use in our practices and lives by uncovering the influence of these tools on their use and the kind of social relations they create and originate from.

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do we need this: In this email please specify as well whether you need hosting, or you can host etc...(list from bottom?)
or can we wait for when we confirm to people they will participate, and then explain that part?si

From its first edition Relearn focused on FLOSS culture and practices as a way to address the production processes and frameworks involving technology and culture, firstly starting from the field of graphic design, and in the second edition expanding to production and education in broader terms. This third edition proposes to continue the discourse trying to focus more specifically on the relations and approaches to technology as such . In this moment in time in which any social, political, personal question seems to require/desire a technological solution, it becomes urgent to rework assumptions and conceptions we have of technology. Through its previous editions Relearn has grown into a network composed of a wide variety of sensibilities, experiences and practices seeking a thoughtful relation to means and technologies of communication, exchange, production and education. As such we invite members of this network to come together once again for a few days in summer and reflect on the technological issue.

Relearn is a summerschool with as many teachers as it has participants. It learned from F/LOSS culture to engage in a critical relation with the tools and the processes that influence our lives and work practices.

Relearn starts from F/LOSS culture and practices as a way to address the production processes and frameworks involving technology and culture, in the beginning in the field of graphic design, and in the second edition expanding to production and education in broader terms. A proposal for this third edition is to continue by focusing on technology as such. Questioning what it consists of, how it 'functions', and challenging the traditional narratives on it. In this moment in which any social, political and personal problem seems to be approached with a technological solution, it feels urgent to rework the assumptions and conceptions we have of technology.

2014
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http://relearn.be

Relearn is a summerschool with as many teachers as it has participants. It is about sharing and trying Free Culture practices, and is entirely done with Free, Libre and Open Source software. Relearn takes place in Variable, a collectively run F/LOSS Arts Lab in Brussels. It starts from the idea that tools are increasingly mediated by software and the algorithmic and legal dynamics that constraint and shape its use. Reconnecting to the physical and digital material of those tools is a means of (re)asserting ownership and ensuring active participation in the future of our work practices.
Relearn welcomes participants —artists, students, teachers, practitioners— from all ages and disciplines. Relearn starts on Sunday July 6 and ends Friday 11 July.
To participate, please send an e-mail to registration@relearn.be before April 25, including a short motivation.
You can also submit a worksession proposal; more info on the Relearn website.

2013
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The design caravan Open Source Publishing invites you for a design education experiment this summer — from 26 until 30 August 2013
By and large, graphic design students bring a laptop to school, and create their work using digital software tools. This hard- and software represents a technological and cultural heritage that is seldomly questioned, and a potential that goes unexploited. Using free and open source software and engaging in its culture provides an alternative by making a design practice possible with a more intimate and experimental relation to its toolbox.
Beyond the implications for design practice, the culture of free and open source software challenges traditional education paradigms because knowledge is exchanged outside institutional borders, and participants move between roles easily (teacher, student, developer, user). Following from their series of workshops and Print Parties, OSP proposes a summer school experiment.

Welcome!

http://osp.constantvzw.org/summer-school-2013

To give an idea of this kind of perspective, there were some interesting questions resulting from past events, as the following:
What's the difference between 'tech' and 'technology'?
How does a file system relate to an office?
Can anything digital be 'immaterial', when it sits in data-centers or it moves over infrastructures?
What happens when computing becomes 'invisible'?
Are interface-design, packaging and blackboxing similar processes, how do they influence our relation to an object?
How do user-friendliness and efficiency determine the way software and devices are developed?
Hopefully this way of thinking about tools, networks and infrastructures can influence the summer school tracks, offering transversal elements to connect some points in the different worksessions, in relation to one's own practices and tools.

How to apply
Send an e-mail to mail@osp.constantvzw.org, before July 15th, including a short description of your projections and speculations about these ateliers. The number of places is limited to 24.

If you want to participate, please send an email to registration@relearn.be, telling in a few lines why you are interested in relearn.
The main language of the summer school is English, but French and Dutch are going to be spoken as well.

Questions to include:

Can you host?
Do you need hosting / might you know someone to host
Allergies for food
Dates of event
express your interest in participating
participants should stay the entire relearn
English speaking will probably happen (?)