Art Pedagogy

Previously known as Afterall ArtSchool, this research strand thinks through multimedia approaches to reflect on the present and potential futures of teaching and learning about and through art.

ArtSchool 2020

ArtSchool 2020 was our pilot ArtSchool project, launched following the temporary closure of Central Saint Martins during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the premises of Afterall’s One Work series, this project thinks through the generative potential of works of art themselves for stimulating critical, transformative thinking on these subjects.

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Decolonisation in the 2020s

This symposium was a collaboration with Museu de Arte de São Paulo, UAL’s Decolonising Arts Institute and Goldsmiths Department of Visual Cultures. Jumping off from our pilot ArtSchool 2020 project, this programme invited various contributors to contribute a short text (1,500 words) on a given theme, and to join a subsequent live video call to discuss it.

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THE EDUCATIONAL WEB

Taking the theorist, educator, and decolonial thinker Ivan Illich’s seminal book Deschooling Society (1971) as a point of departure, THE EDUCATIONAL WEB aims to generate a dialogue between art and the educational and pedagogic practices that underpin it.

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Hiding in Plain Sight

Hiding in Plain Sight explores alternative approaches to study conceived in the shadows. Drawing from Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s conceptualisation of the ‘undercommons’, this programme invites arts practitioners, theorists, and students to orient their practice outside the mould of institutional apparatuses.

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