As a lot of people send us emails asking more informations:
The parallel school idea is very simple: we, students and non-students from all over the world, can create a new school, parallel to the existing ones, where each class would be a place. A big virtual building where you 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 creating contexts, groups of people, energy. To give ideas, initiate projects, as if you were your own teacher. What do you want to do, what can you propose?
The parallel school has been imagined as a way to learn outside the academic way. And a chance to meet and discuss with students from all over the world. The parallel school can be totally different too, can evolve as far as our imagination can goes. 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 a reflexion with the Royal College of Art in London. We wrough a 16 pages, including reflexions, pictures and texts related to the concept of "parallel school". Some students there are actually thinking and preparing what's happening next. In the same time we are organising an exchange with them, they will come to our place, we will accomodate them for one week and then will go to London in the same way. It's a created context to meet people and others culture, then to work together. Maybe we will work on a publication, objects...we have to discuss and choose what will be possible and interesting. The idea is to self-organise a workshop and exchange.
So feel free to post things you think interesting for others. Maybe not your portfolio but experiences, culture, knowledges that you want to share. As if you were meeting somebody from a different place. Please take care that your content is free of copyright and of course, give all the informations about where it comes from. You will receive an email to register and be abble to post. You need to have a gmail account and then can post freely stuff you want to share. When you 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 'Project proposals".
If never you want to participate to the theoretical thinking of the parallel school, you can donwload the pdf "parallel school of art 1", print it, create a group of people to think and make something related to.
If you have an other idea, you are welcome!
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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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