SPACIALITY:
You are in an associative place called Zinneke. It hosts the 2015 edition of Relearn Summerschool (the third edition, after two which took place at Variable, also in the neighbourhood of Schaerbeek).
To get into this building you must enter this code: 1341
CARE TASKS | care/shared responsibility:
inscribe yourself on the task distributor on this calc: https://ethercalc.org/relearn_2015_tasks
NOTE-TAKING:
notetaking is not sharing is not documenting is not archiving is not publishing
The pad: not only for accumulating thoughts, but also opens the possibility of editing
so if you see that a discussion/point is getting messy help to keep it readable/shareable by editing (or dedicating it its own pad)
DISCUSSION on material/infrastructural elements of this shared situation, from the perspective of your group's topic.
You have now 20min to contribute with your group debate and through note-taking to any of them:
(the questions are to be discussed in the group, and notes are taken, rather than be answered on the pad?)
*- absences (negation) ->
**what is missing that can define Relearn? (e.g.: teachers)
**but in which way is it missing and which way it is present (e.g. power-relations)?
*How would a school without timekeeping behave?
*How would a school without books behave/look like/feel?
*in which way does a school fee influences your education?
*
**- latences (translation) ->
*things that are present but were translated / their medium changed somehow (e.g.: the blackboard into the pad)
**an example of a translated object
*an example of a translated thing
*an example of a translated system
**an example of a translated infrastructure
*an exampe of a translated practice
*an example of a translated role
*an example of a translated norm
*an example of a translated value
*what is a remediation?
*
*- practices ->
*how many exams have you presented to without looking at the topic at all?
*how many exams have you studied wholy in the previous night?
*remember the name of the best exam-copier of your class at school?
*in the country in which you studied, is copying during an exam a looked down sin or common practice?
*How does architectural space affect, influence or pervert learning situations?
*How do notions of scale and dimension inform your learning experience?
*What is the spacial memory of the schools you have been studying at?
*How does this memory relate to what you have learned in these spaces?
*What was the material of the building? Its colour?
*How did the staircases, classes, blackboards, desks, stools look like?
*Have you ever fall down from your chair?
*Did you ever look under your desk?
*Did you ever throw anything out of the window?what?
*were you ever in love with a teacher?
*Did you anytime fuck a teacher?
*documentation
*Were you good at sports?
*Do you still keep your classnotes?
*Were you part of any sort of league?
*Did you have single or double desks at school?
*Did you use new or used text books at highschool?
*what are the situations of conflict you remember at school?
*Have you ever demonstrated in front of the dean's office?
*Any experiences with extra-curricular math clases?
*Were you part of the debate club?
*How is knowledge transferred through space?
*mediations
*who do you consider a mediator?
*what do you consider a mediator?
*remember the surname of the director of your school?
*how many times were you sent to the director of your school?
*write down three exercises of gymnastics
*did girls play football at your highschool?
*track groupings (e.g.:
*limited internet
*finance management (e.g.: making the budget public)
*file sharing (e.g.: bibliotecha, git)
*does your home country allow home-teaching?
*do you consider your mother an autodidact?
*were you obligued to wear uniform at school?
*did you study Asian History?
*
*- temporalities -> urgencies, durabilities, (time management, experience, age)
*in which way is time managed in traditional education?
*How many km was your school distant from home? did you walk there?
*
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*- common language ->
*The possibility of creating a 'glossary'
*glossary,
**what is an apparatus?
*what is a log in?
*what is an infrastructure?
*what is a system?
*what is an assemblage?
*what is a thing?
*what is a tool?
*what is an instrument?
*what is a technique?
*what is technology?
*what is a technology?
*what is a good technology?
*what is care?
*what is a dispositif?
*who is a classmate?
*what is a classroom?
*what is a common ground?
*what is a teacher?
*who is a mentor?
*what is paternalism?
*who is a paternalist? name five.
*what is a library?
*what is a repository?
*what is an inventory?
*what is an archive?
*what is a notebook for?
*what is a browser?
*what is a program?
*what is function?
*what is efficiency?
*what is a uniform?
*what is universalist education?
*what is conviviality?
*what is bulling?
*what is arrassment?
*what is autodidacticism?
*what is public education?
*what is learning?
*what makes a school?
*what makes a university?
*what makes a discipline?
*what is permanence?
*how does tradition become educated?
*
*how does an infrastructure work?
*make an example of a break down experience
*an experience of a broken tool which works nevertheless
*
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*- spacialities -> distribution, singlespacing, zinneke (earlier variable)
*How does the experience of the 'flat' reality of software relate to the tangible physical reality of architectural space?
*
*- janitor (care) -> reproductive issues, housing network, la poissonerie, toilet cleaning,
*What does a sink have to say?
*why would clean zinneke's toilets?
*why would you not do it?
*would you clean this room's windows now?
*why would you rather leave it dirty?
*how do you decide when is the moment to clean the dishes?time?quantity?
//
An open call was executed
She has always been living in the city.
She has arrived in the city a short time ago.
Dates were settled by a core group of people august 20-25
*Question: what makes a core? how did it emerge/gather?
*Answer:
An email was received on august 19, with a starting time:
9.30
August 25th, 2015. Brussels pronounced brasel. Scharbeek pronounced eskarbek. Place Masui pronounced equally masui. Thirteen. A former tax office someone said somewhere.
She is reaching the building from the right side. It is a self-named building. Not necessarily self-explanatory. Big characters: z i n n e k e
There is a disturbing mirroring UFO -- behind it the large metal door asks her to dial a code:
1341
*Question: What is the right code?
*Answer: one plus three plus four plus one
After dialing 1341 on the small device hanging next to the door, she pushes and enters the building.
Some other peple are around, trying to access the building, using the same numerical code.
The place + the code assemble a security system. An ephemeral one.
*Question: what is a fackin assemblage? / What is security?
*Answer:
She notices they are carring fruits and caffeine.
*Question: who makes breakfast tomorrow?
*Answer:
It's 9:30 in the morning. They tell her they came here to prepare breakfast.
The blackboard asks who will buy breakfast tomorrow...
*Q:where is the money for the croissants coming from?
*A:
She is puzzled. She looks around herself with a slight feeling of displacement.
*Q: So: who was here on past editions? any help/orientation brought from that experience?
*A:
*(tapping their own forehead)
We have told you: this place is now a school.
*Q: what makes a school? / What do you mean a school? Where are the janitors? And I didn't hear the bell...
*A:
But what do you want us to do here? / what do you mean "you"? who is the director?
*Q: what implications does it have to self-manage learning situations?
*A:
All right, but self: who are the learners here?
*Q: what gathered all this people together?
*A:
Inside, she is directed towards a desk, on top of which lies a piece of paper.
A text - that, she must confess, at points is very confusing -
She is not alone, but together with strangers, as well as friends.
The text is composed by an hallucinatory narrative, talking about someone entering a former tax building, dialing a code...
She ignores this, as she suddeny is attracted by a series of questions, at the bottom of the paper.
These questions at first glance sound disordered, vague and maybe uncomprehensible. They have to do with such a broad range of topics and ideas that sometimes, to understand what is really being asked is almost impossible.
Some of them, seem is as if they were not being asked by human beings, but by objects and things.
She is asking herself how should she know what to answer to a talking sink, and if it really is the blackboard that is talking.
When it asks me to be cleaned, who is it talking?
after some time, seems to say something to her.
What
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it talks poliphonically about care & materialities: doors demand to be opened on time, toilets claim to be cleaned, bread need some transportation, time is to be kept, mugs say: be a washin machine, coffeine ready
pads ask for some weeding now and then; here and there.
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*- absences (negation) -> what is missing that can define Relearn? (e.g.: teachers) but in which way is it missing and which way it is present (e.g. power-relations)?
*- latences (translation) -> things that are present but were translated / their medium changed somehow (e.g.: the blackboard into the pad)
*- practices -> documentation, transferences, mediations, track groupings, limited internet, finance management, file sharing (e.g.: bibliotecha, git)
*- temporalities -> urgencies, durabilities, (time management, experience, age)
*- common language -> glossary,
*- spacialities -> distribution, singlespacing, zinneke (earlier variable)
*- janitor (care) -> reproductive issues, housing network, la poissonerie, toilet cleaning,
install yourself into
Relearn 2015
What is missing?
a script readed through
???
this time now asks to be keeped
20min
A lot of questions are posed in Relearn and through Relearn... Some are explicit some less.
For example, Zinneke's door asks "What is the code?". The answer is "1341".
Somebody asked what was Zinneke before..An old tax office, they said.
The blackboard asks "Who will buy breakfast tomorrow?"
And now this piece of paper asks: "can you please open your browser at 10.9.8.7:9001 ?"
This structure you find there, etherpad, asks for a collaborative effort in note taking.
Some questions are asked in the wish to share them in a discussion
From now on, the sheet says, it's imporatnt to keep taking notes in other sessions, so start a pad or join the discussion if it already exists, on next activities.
INSTALL YOURSELF INTO RELEARN [[[[[from http://piratepad.net/learningextitution ]]]]]
This is a script to install some ideas for Relearning. The installation happens through conversation.
Installation instructions
*Decide on one person in your group that will play clock.
*On the table, you'll find a deck of cards with each a cluster of concepts.
*As a group, take maximum 10 minutes to pick 3 cards.
*Discuss each card for 5 minutes. Use the clock :-)
*After that, spend 5 minutes to report on your discussion. Leave short notes on the back of each selected card.
*If you think concepts are missing, you can add them on an empty card.
*Leave all cards on the table for the next group.
*You are ready to boot into Relearn now.
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Constant Variable, Relearn 2013, libre graphics, Free / Libre and Open Source software, free licenses
documentation, memory, temporality
expertise, experience, transference
tools, practice, affordance, materiality, infrastructure
informal/formal/non-formal education, validation
collective learning, self-learning
conviviality, appropriation, control, hosting
dissensus, privilege, empowerment
fiction, speculation, interrogation, projection
[add a concept]
: : : : s c h e d u l e : : :
sort of a motto: installing the basic awareness & infrastructural elements for relearning
what about a genealogy of the pad?
so, the history of install yourself into relearn link pad
this pad
padpad
etc
About: install yourself into relearn
last year http://piratepad.net/learningextitution
this year-->thinking through
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install yourself into relearn (2015)
sharing thoughts:
Paper:
Etherpad is a software....
It will be used as the technological mean to annotate, discuss and organize what will happen in this year relearn's edition.
intro: the following is the same situation of last year-->we found it on a pad http://piratepad.net/learningextitution ----> install yourself into relearn
that is why is here, and in itself it evidences why taking notes is important
these questions are still relevant and are part of relearn, the continuity is mainteined by and through taking notes
hence re-editing and adding new questions and points to the past
but pads are also used for practical purposes: hence here is a sign up list, for this year's tasks [[link]]]
but the issue of practicalities, and the importance of sharing responsibilities and tasks is also something to discuss--->care/jenitor
This is the endless thinking movement between relfective/abstract and jenitorial approaches.
for this reason pads tends to get messy and at some point they need to be organized and edited, in order to make the material shareable
nevertheless, getting lost through messy pads is inherent in the way we use pads
a tidy pad is not necessarily a pad that has not been used much, it may be be one that has been edited and organized by caring people
be aware that by "tiding up" pads, or in general copy-pasting from and to a pad, you will lose all the colors (aka the autorship) and time information about the different edits to the text.-->hence the dynamics of collective writing
therefore note taking is not documentation is not archiving is is not publication is not all there is...
notetaking is not sharing is not documenting is not archiving is not publishing
relearn outside relearn-the possibility of continuing the school beyond its temporality and spaciality - then note-taking as a way to maintain this continuation.
...
These questions are not just an exercise of discussion, they are recurring issues related to relearn.
The suggestion -the plan- is to have space for these and other questions everyday, starting from the morning.
install yourself into relearn (2015)
sharing thoughts:
intro: while preparing this text, we realized the usefulness of looking back at the equivalent text from last year's edition--> we found it on an old pad http://piratepad.net/learningextitution ----> install yourself into relearn
this is why note-taking is relevant, etherpad is the technological mean that we used and we will use for this task
that is why is here,
and why taking notes is important
these questions are still relevant and are part of relearn, the continuity is manteined by and through taking notes
hence re-editing and adding new questions and points to the past is an interesting way to .. this continuity, as well as a way to bring forward new relations and discussions.
but pad are also used for practical purposes: hence here is a sign up list, for this year's task
but the issue of practicalities, and the importance of sharing responsibilities and tasks is also something to discuss--->care/jenitor