As a lot of people send us emails asking for more information on the project:
The Parallel School idea is very simple: we, students and non-students from around the world, can create a new school, parallel to the existing ones, where each class would be a place for self-education. An endless virtual building where anyone can knock at the door of students from London, Paris, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Berlin... Then, it's your role to invest yourself in this school by creating new contexts, organizing groups of people, gathering energy; to propose new ideas and projects, as if you were your own teacher. What would you want to do, what would you like to propose if that was the case?
Parallel School has been imagined as a way to learn outside academia. And a chance to meet and discuss graphic design, art and education with students from all over the world. Parallel School can also become totally different – it can evolve as far as our imagination can go. All the ideas and critics will be considered and be part of the project.
For example, to start with this project: we (students at ENSAD Paris) began developing a reflection in exchange with the Royal College of Art in London. We wrote 16 pages, including reflections, pictures and texts related to the concept of Parallel School. Some students there are actually thinking about and preparing what will be happening next. At the same time we are organizing an exchange with them: they will come to our place, we will accommodate them for one week and then will go to London in the same way. It's a context that is created to meet people and others cultures, and then to work together. Maybe we will work on a publication, maybe on objects... we have to discuss and choose what will be possible and interesting. The idea is to self-organize a workshop by means of an exchange.
So feel free to post things you think may be interesting for others. Maybe not your portfolio but experiences, culture, knowledge that you would want to share. As if you were meeting somebody from a different place. Please guarantee that your content is free of copyright and, of course, try to be precise about where it comes from. You will receive an email to register and be able to post in the blog. You need to have a gmail account and will then be able to post freely any stuff that you would like to share with us. When you write a post, just precise the same "label" each time (full name/city/country). If you propose a project to others (as an exchange or something like that), we will add it in 'Parallel Project – More".
If you would like to participate at the theoretical reflection on the Parallel School, you can start by downloading the pdf "parallel school of art 1", print it, and gather a group of people to reflect on the project and organise something related to it.
If you have any other ideas, you are welcome to share them!
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Hi,
glad to see there's a lot of activity in this project. Couldn't check everything yet, but it looks very lively. I've always been concerned about education and the sharing of knowledge.
Just some quick remarks (à prendre ou à laisser):
- for a project about sharing, you should put the recent comments higher in the page, to encourage this activity.
- still about comments, it is very annoying to have to have a web account somewhere in order to be able to comment. (Why did you choose Blogger anyways? It's not very compatible with free of copyright content…)
- about this "free of copyright" thing, you should mention it on the side bar too, under the copyright section. And does "free of copyright" means public domain, or that anybody is free to use/alter/diffuse respecting the original author? The second case is still a copyright, but with a different licence than the "classical" copyright.
Don't want to seem to give you lessons here (parallel school is not about teaching right?). Just some thoughts…
Thanks for your advice, we are actually thinking about all these points and it is almost sure that the blog will move to something more adapted to the concept. As you can imagine, every decisions have been made quickly, as the first idea was to share energy, blogger will be removed as soon as someone will be able to make it in an other way. It is actually important to think every informations, but I think it is part of the concept to show the process of its evolution!
I totally understand you were in a hurry. The Free software motto: release early, release often (but not with Blogger ;)
I'll be looking forward this new platform then.
Best,
Stéphanie
Thanks for your comments Stéphanie. We had them in mind during our discussions! There should be changes soon...
Hey dear people. I would like to tell you that the source of your inspiration and the goals you are proposing are worrying to my ears. For that reason I need to warn you that your generous intentions of sharing energies and information are of no surprise in this day and age. The thing what I find most common in our internet reality these times is the will to be eternal information “eaters”, usurpers, students… While are we not already quite informed? The sharing is in a non -stop flux on the daily basis for most people. I believe that a becoming individual is actually busy with giving. And an individual who is an artist is busy giving his/her life. This is why I would like to point out to you and to warn you, that what it seems we are lacking right now and in the coming decades is not the ability to keep each other informed (there are billions of blogs, I am assured). What we do lack is an ongoing, blossoming inter-relationship, friendship between creative individuals where each has a vision. This is what I propose should be our motivation and desire to create in a world of lonely artists and detached seers.
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