THE PUBLIC SCHOOL

THE PUBLIC SCHOOL is a school with no curriculum. At the moment, it operates as follows: first, classes are proposed by the public (I want to learn this or I want to teach this); then, people have the opportunity to sign up for the classes (I also want to learn that); finally, when enough people have expressed interest, the school finds a teacher and offers the class to those who signed up.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL is not accredited, it does not give out degrees, and it has no affiliation with the public school system. It is a framework that supports autodidactic activities, operating under the assumption that everything is in everything.

http://nyc.thepublicschool.org

Red76

Nomadic in nature, Red76’s origins reside in Portland, Cascadia/Oregon wherein it was founded in the winter of 2000. The socio-historical landscape of the Cascadian region greatly informs the methodological underpinnings of their work. The group, often in flux and geographically dispersed, is the moniker for initiatives most often conceived by Sam Gould, and collaboratively realized with the assistance of Gabriel Mindel-Saloman, Zefrey Throwell, Dan S. Wang, Mike Wolf, Laura Baldwin, and many others.

Often situating itself in public space, or creating an atmosphere wherein the definition of space maybe have an opportunity to redefine itself, Red76 initiatives utilize overlooked histories and common shared occurrences as a means of creating a framework in which to construct their public inquiries. Social histories, collaborative research, parallel politics, free media, alternative educational constructs, gatherings, masking, and public dialogue play a continuing and vital role within the methodology and concepts of Red76’s work.

http://www.red76.com

The Piracy Project

Part of this is The Piracy Project, which is inspired by book piracy that exists in many emerging countries. This phenomenon has reached global scale, and book pirates in Peru for example go beyond creating unlicensed reprints – they have even begun to interfere with the content. An entire genre of “improved” versions is emerging. All the books, in a sense, become legitimate versions.

This project is not about stealing or forgery, it is about creating a platform to innovatively explore the spectrum of copying / re-editing / translating / paraphrasing / imitating / re-organising / manipulating of already existing works. Here creativity and originality sit not in the borrowed material itself, but in the way it is handled. We are interested in the whole spectrum of appropriation and copying, which Karsten Schubert describes as ranging from “mechanical or rote copying, graduating to knowledgeable reworking and culminating in innovative recasting”. (Karsten Schubert, Daniel McClean ed. (2002) Dear Images, Art Copyright and Culture, Ridinghouse, 2002, page 27)

http://www.andpublishing.org

032c

032c is a contemporary culture magazine that fiercely believes in the intelligence of its readers, and rises to the challenge of surprising them. Published twice a year, it is both timely and timeless—a celebration of and for the most cutting-edge in art, culture, and fashion.

http://032c.com

OK Do

OK Do is a socially-minded design think tank. We tackle emerging questions exploring the roles and methods of the new designer. Our aim is to cultivate design discussion and practice what we preach – think and do.

We come from hybrid backgrounds bridging design, art and science with an interest towards future. Our approach to thinking and doing is simultaneously theoretical, practical and avant-garde. According to wabi-sabi principles, it seeks to pare things down to the essence without removing the poetry.

http://www.ok-do.eu/

PROGRAM __INITIATIVE FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE COLLABORATIONS

PROGRAM is a nonprofit project aimed at testing the disciplinary boundaries of architecture through collaborations with other fields. Initiated in 2006 by Carson Chan and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, PROGRAM provides a discursive platform for artists, architects, critics and curators to explore ideas through exhibitions, performances, workshops, lectures, and residencies. PROGRAM intends to enrich and broaden our definitions of architecture, and to challenge traditional, domesticated modes of architectural practice and representation. Developing each project independent of an overarching agenda, PROGRAM is striving to diversify the ways we understand and make architecture. Central to our project is to engage the discourse with emerging creative processes that activate the space between pure theoretical research, professional praxis and architecture’s social role.

http://www.programonline.de

Mediating modernism: architectural cultures in Britain

Table of contents:

Introduction

1. Making it New: the discourses of architecture and modernism in Britain

2. The Mission of Modernism: James Richards and the Architectural Review

3. The Forgetting of Art: the Abercrombie plan for post-war London

4. The shift to the specific: the new interpretation of materiality in Brutalism and the Functional Tradition

5. The Opposite of Architecture: Archigram and Architectural Design in the sixties

6. Searching for the Subject: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association School

7. Architecture as Discourse: Rethinking the culture of architecture

http://www.booksamillion.com

The Curatorial Network is an online portal and programme of activities dedicated to the development of curatorial practice through critical debate, collaborations and exchange. It facilitates the sharing of ideas and skills, provides professional development opportunities and offers ongoing peer support for curators across the visual and applied arts, museum and academic sectors. It aims to develop international networks and advance collaborative curatorial practice.

http://www2.curatorial.net

Copenhagen Free University

The Copenhagen Free University opened in May 2001 in our flat. The Free University is an artist run institution dedicated to the production of critical consciousness and poetic language. We do not accept the so-called new knowledge economy as the framing understanding of knowledge. We work with forms of knowledge that are fleeting, fluid, schizophrenic, uncompromising, subjective, uneconomic, acapitalist, produced in the kitchen, produced when asleep or arisen on a social excursion – collectively.

http://www.copenhagenfreeuniversity.dk

Mute

Mute is an online magazine dedicated to exploring culture and politics after the net. Mute combines quarterly issues dedicated to specific topics (Precarious Labour, The Knowledge Commons, etc) with regularly updated articles and reviews. The site also features ongoing coverage of relevant news and events contributed by ourselves and our readers.

As well as the online magazine, Mute also publishes a quarterly book (aka Mute Vol. 2) which features selections from current issues together with other online content, specially commissioned and co-published projects, and relevant historical material.
 
Finally, Mute is also an online multi-media resource, with a Public Library where readers can contribute reviews as well as upload media files which flesh out and diversify media history and other of Mute’s perennial concerns.

http://www.metamute.org