today i have spent some time reading articles posted up on ADM website http://www.adm.heacademy.ac.uk/networks one which was of interest to me was Fiona woods piece on Slivers of critical space: Some thoughts on the role of the contemporary art educational institution here she discusses how the Knowledge Economy is profoundly shaping concepts and practices not only within the field of art education, but in the area of cultural practice itself.
http://www.adm.heacademy.ac.uk/networks/networks-summer-2011/features/slivers-of-critical-space-some-thoughts-on-the-role-of-the-contemporary-art-educational-institution
Interestingly is this..
In 2009 in rural north-west Ireland, a multidisciplinary group of individuals founded ‘Ireland’s newest university’, the Home University of Roscommon and Leitrim (HURL). Committed to the ‘exchange of soft knowledge’ (2009), the model of education proposed by HURL identifies every private or public space as a potential place of dynamic knowledge exchange, seeking to facilitate its transfer from person to person, without entering into a process of commodification. HURL engages with issues, sites and groups of people that are ‘local’, but it does this using forms of assembly that are both real and virtual, operating trans-locally across multiple platforms, inside and outside the space of art. By acting in common with others, HURL finds ways of generating and sharing ideas and productions across time and space, involving fluid sets of actors, incorporating lived and sensed experiences and placing an equal value on abstract knowledge and know-how.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY0RdXvNBkA&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
HURLS comic...
Good and bad times for making and thinking
I also read David Gauntlett who discusses Making is Connecting (his book!) http://www.makingisconnecting.org/ that we could be seeing the start of a shift from a ‘sit-back-and-be-told culture’ to a ‘making-and-doing culture’: people rejecting traditional teaching and television, and making their own learning and entertainment instead. This connects with the ideas of 1970s philosopher Ivan Illich, who argued that people need tools to create, to express themselves, to make their mark, and to shape the environments in which they live. Illich argued that we need ‘convivial tools’, which we can use to do what we want, rather than ‘industrial tools’, which are one-size-fits-all solutions which expect us to fit in with what they want. In this context, I tend to think of television as an ‘industrial tool’ – a take-it-or-leave-it delivery system for readymade content – whereas Web 2.0 platforms, at their best, can be closer to Illich’s ‘convivial tools’, enabling people to contribute to their own spread of media material, and to ‘make their mark’ on that landscape rather than merely being able to look at it.
Illich, I. (1973) Tools for Conviviality, London, Calder & Boyars.
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