126

Arte Útil archive nr:

126

Initiator:

Telic Arts Exchange

Location:

US, Germany, Belgium, Finland, Puerto Rico, United Kingdom, Austria

Category:

pedagogical, economy, social

Users:

Telic Arts Exchange (TAE), Sean Dockray, users of the school

Maintained by:

First Independent; Van Alen Institute (The Public School (for Architecture) New York; Komplot in Brussels; Ptarmigan in Helsinki; Betalocal in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Certification:

implemented

Duration:

2007 - ongoing

Telic Arts Exchange
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The Public School

Description:

The Public School is a website school which is unrelated to the public school system, and does not give any degrees. On this site you can find proposals for those who want to both teach or learn. Related to this school is the library web Aaaaarg.org which offers texts, outside institutional frameworks for studying despite the restrictions of copyright. Boards and thematic lists of texts are organised by users.

Goals:

It is a framework that supports autodidactic activities, operating under the assumption that ‘everything is in everything’.

Beneficial Outcomes:

People have the opportunity to ask for classes and the school finds a teacher, offering the class to those who signed up.

Images:

Chalkboard after
Day 12 of seminar