Teaching & Learning: Workshop

Inside Out School

2 December 2014
A Feral Studio, Communication Design BA, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
The disarticulation of an institution. In 1962, led by Dr Franco Basaglia, patients and staff at the Gorizia Psychiatric Hospital in Italy dismantled the perimeter fence of the institution. It was the beginning of a new and open therapeutic community called Villa21. In Villa21 hierarchies became porous, daily life was regulated by assemblies and patients blended with staff in regular clothes. Image: (2010) Valentina Mosetti

Inside Out assembled in the corridors of the newly built School of Design in December 2014. Working with final year design students, our aim was to explore the tensions present within institutional education, more precisely, the tensions which exist between inside and outside art school. The activities we planned were intended to create discussion by manifesting these tensions in a series of symbolic and functional acts. The most basic of these was the displacement of work from the classroom into the corridors of the school. Chairs, tables and other objects were then assembled, modified and combined to create temporary partitions, seating and general infrastructure for the afternoon’s working groups. The idea of conflict as a methodology, as discussed by Markus Miessen and Chantal Mouffe, was a key reference, as were past pedagogical projects such as The Antiuniversity and Hidden Curriculum by Annette Krauss, amongst others.

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Critical pedagogy
Cardboard barricades, paper screens and plasticine feet
Berkeley book tents. The cover image of Contestations: Learning from Critical Experiments in Education by Tim Ivison and Tom Vandeputte (2013). After being evicted from the UC Berkeley campus in the autumn of 2011, student Occupy protestors left books where their tents once stood.