We're exploring how we can work together to make the school a place that truly reflects children's voices, dreams, and visions, and how we can integrate these into our daily practices. The school will open its doors for a day, inviting the public to join in the learning and teaching process. This includes lessons, workshops, creative exercises, temporary transformations, spatial interventions, and the introduction of new subjects conceived by the students themselves during an intensive week of collaboration. Visitors will have the freedom to explore the school, adopt new rules and identities, engage with prepared stimuli, exercises, and challenges, and practice skills that we might have long forgotten. We'll work on unlearning the patterns and habits that hold us back from dreaming, taking action, and fully connecting with each other across our differences.
At the same time, the programme is also thinking of those who, for various reasons, are not able to be either co-creators or spectators of the live event, and is preparing for them a printed vision of a different form of school written by the pupils themselves.
About project:
"Together with Magda, we conducted several longer and shorter workshops, each time looking for ways to create more space for children's voices and different forms of expression. We each work with different experiences and slightly different resources, but we are united in our desire to show the power of intergenerational sharing and collaboration and the importance of children's emancipation in a world that does not take children's voices seriously. We are interested in the role of the critical imagination, which does not just make us crazy, but overturns the ways in which we see, evaluate, relate, which can often take the form of a subtle disruption of everyday scripts or, conversely, a radical overturning of them. In addition to intergenerational cooperation, interspeciesism is important to us, i.e. taking animal, plant and other actors seriously as someone we should not exploit but learn from. In the current collaborative project, we want to look for ways to educate and learn together with the children, beyond normative categories and evaluative labels, and rather create a school of sharing, imagination and diversity."
Photo from the event Meeting of the Children's Editorial Board KRUNÝŘ under the Institut of Anxiety.