Emotional Mapping: We will guide the participants through a process to define and present their locality.
Starting from the Endz
RESOLVE CollectiveRESOLVE Collective
Starting from the Endz
In British slang, the ‘endz’ is your immediate neighborhood. It is always plural yet finite; a contradictory site of struggle and strength, knowledge and naivety. ‘Starting from the Endz’ is a pedagogical framework that positions locality, or the ‘endz,’ as the centre of liberatory spatial practice. This course invites participants to explore their locales as sites of knowledge production, guided by an approach of “thinking-through-making.”
‣ Re-framing Locales‣ Site as Resource‣ Radical Spatial Practice‣ Peer-to-peer Knowledge Exchange
Dates & Times
February 22: 10AM–12PM EST
March 1: 10AM–12PM EST
March 8: 10AM–12PM EST
March 15: 10AM–12PM EST
March 22: 10AM–12PM EST
March 29: 10AM–12PM EST
LocationOnline
Cost$0
Age16-25
LanguageEnglish
MaterialsLaptop with Wi-Fi, Phone with Camera/Audio Recording
Accessibility SupportsClosed-Captioning, Advance Access to Materials, Access to Recordings
Max Students15
Course Description
This course will comprise close reading and discussion, sketching/designing, guest workshop facilitation, field recordings (audio & visual), and independent study. Participants will read and discuss recommended materials, listen and learn from other participants, craft an image of their locales, re-imagine and design alternative ways of reading their locales, explore and share field recordings, and curate a piece to be collectively exhibited.
Participants will produce a digital archive of research and readings that speak to their localities and the narratives formed around them. They will also have a final piece digitally exhibited that will act as an example of the expansive possibilities of radically rethinking spatial practice through imaginative reconstructions of our ‘Endz.’ This course will meet for two hours weekly for six consecutive weeks.
Session 1
Session 2
Narrative Building: Participants will construct the narratives that illuminate their sites of interest, framing the characters that define their locale and exchange stories to navigate the topology of the ‘Endz’.
Session 3
Image Sequencing with Nathaniel Telemaque: We will craft an ‘image of our endz’ through collaging personal photos, second hand imagery, and iconography from our various locales.
Session 4
Scenographies: Borrowing from techniques in spatial practice and theatre design, we will bring together the spaces, stories, and images of the ‘Endz’ to build our liberatory scene.
Session 5
Audio Walk: Participants will gather field recordings and sonic reflections in their own locales that further interrogate the possibilities of the ‘Endz’ within radical pedagogy.
Session 6
ctrl + c; ctrl + v: Using the context from the previous five workshops, we will develop a distributed exhibit that presents translocal pedagogical practices across a series of global locales.
Teacher(s)
RESOLVE Collective
RESOLVE is an interdisciplinary design collective that combines architecture, engineering, technology, and art to address social challenges. They have delivered numerous projects, workshops, publications, and talks in the UK and across Europe, all of which look toward realising just and equitable visions of change in our built environment.
www.resolvecollective.com