Each project is the main focus of one or more contributors to the Rhyzom network, which connect their work to other participants and to their areas on enquiry and development.
COLLECTION OF MINDS is a fluid platform for collaborative activity in which people from a wide variety of disciplines are invited to contribute to projects that question the prevailing horizon of political, social and economic possibility, employing artistic modes of presentation and representation to present alternatives (real and/or imagined) into the public domain, employing alternative circuits of production and distribution and/or the institutional site of art as appropriate.
See the first zine, COMMON, by Fiona Woods here, and Public Common, a zine by ece sariyuz, commissioned for collection of minds #1 here.
Live Projects are a pioneering educational initiative at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture, bringing masters students with organisations in real time, with real budgets for a six week.
The nomadic and temporary school for mutual learning and teaching of eco-civic practices in different regions of Europe will reinforce democratic values by the transfer of skills and knowledge on issues of resilience in different urban contexts, involving participants of diverse ages and social and cultural backgrounds. The project is based on a partnership between 4 organisations already activating in the transmission of ecological skills and knowledge: (AAA-FR, AGENCY/ UoS-UK, MyVillage-AL and FCDL-RO) and takes support from the EU network RHYZOM, in which these partners are involved.
Four exemplary European urban contexts are targeted: metropolitan suburban (FR), post-industrial urban, (UK) suburban rural (AL) isolated rural (Ro).
The project has 3 phases:
I - participative training workshop organised by AAA in the suburban area of Northern Paris, involving students and teachers from SSoA, administrative personnel and local organisations from Colombes, community organisations from Brezoi, specialists and trainers from Rhyzom and My Village to identify possibilities for implementation and explore methods for teaching and learning of ecological practices (ie. eco- and self-building, reuse, recycling, urban agriculture, handcrafts, alternative economy etc.).
II - mutual teaching and learning through a series of four civic seminars and ‘live projects’ (organised by each partner and involving the trainees from phaseI which will now act as trainers, local residents and organisations) on issues and practices of everyday life ecology, within the framework of a nomadic classroom in Colombes-Fr, Sheffield-UK, Hofen-Al, Brezoi-Ro
III - dissemination through symposium co-organised by all partners in Paris and involving a number of trainees, which will diffuse eco-civic knowledge, skills and practices at European scale and rise interest within other publics on ecological and civic values + a nomadic exhibition and local distribution of fanzines and leaflets in different languages as well as via the internet.
The ECO-Nomadic School project has received support from the EC lifelong learning programme Grundtvig,
R-Urban - constructing new cultures of resilience
A new model for interdisciplinary local cultural production and trans-local and online dissemination.
website by dorian moore @ the useful arts organisation
