Many stuff / parallel school (in moscow, 2010)
(Image:MANYSTUFF, MOSCOW – PARALLEL SCHOOL)

I’ve written at various points over the past year about the tremendously exciting parallel school, (a student-led augmented educational experience), as it has shadowed my own emerging interest in the field of alternative education. There are a couple of issues that i think are important about this;

The initiative starts small, and uses social network tools to connect with likeminded communities, but is built on the dedication and energy of a small group.

In line with the ‘open community’ myth of the net, it still appears to be dealing with a core demographic of similar people, though they may come from different countries and cultures, and be geographically dispersed.

It is aligned to a traditional educational institution but is not bound by it.

In itself and its existence, it is a political act, and directly questions the creeping commercialism of education.

Most of its work appears to currently be self-referential, (about the act of ‘design’ and the process of education), and it will be interesting to see if it moves into other areas.

It is fantastic that at a time when most art colleges are going through the business-as-usual degree shows, groups of students are self-organising in this way.

More resources on alt/self/parallel/future education, knowledge (and related areas) here – (sorry for the sloppy formatting):

www.unitednationsplaza.org

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www.staedelschule.de

facultyofinvisibility.tinka.cc

College

translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corner-college.com%2FCollege&lp=de_en&btnTrUrl=Translate

real-world-studio

index.htm

index_about.htm

p3.shtml

SLOFI

diy-masters

story.asp?storyCode=94208§ioncode=26

www.thishappened.org

www.newworknetwork.org.uk

da.html

schoolofeverything.com

www.theschooloflife.com

free-university

story.asp?storycode=407359

illich

University_of_Openness

TheFreeUniversityProjectGlasgow1987-199

resourcecategory.html?resource=Academic_Programs

fiuwac_statement_-_www_fiuwac_.html

9C4309B0B50D8AA36167.htm

about

sigma.html

londonfreeschool.wordpress.com

filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com

itunesu

index.php?cat=2&subCat=docdetail&&id=206

edgware_road.html

resources

project6.html

Paulo_Freire

www.theschooloflife.com

Public_Library_of_Science

Open_access_%28publishing%29

stuart_bailey.shtml

critical.pdf

systems-learning-final-event-oct-6-2009-london-rca

www.summerhillschool.co.uk

ankur.society.for.alternatives.in.education

www.bureauit.org

portal

2010

Publications | Institute of Network Cultures

link.hfk-bremen.de

some more links: (updated 4.11.10)

www.department21.net

futurefarmers

colab_a_laboratory_for_collaboration_and_serious_play_by_shoham_arad__16513.asp

index.php

future-public-school

new-media-cultural-studies-and-critical-theory-after-postmodernism

artschoolalternatives.tumblr.com

PaulElliman

crosslab

www.onomatopee.net

cult_of_the_ugly

journalism

www.islingtonmillartacademy.blogspot.com

schoolofthefuture.org

gdiycommunity.wordpress.com