Join us September 14 – How to Become a Learning Institution: Finding Freedom between Sacrificial Protection and Inherent Vice

Practice-led teaching and practice-based learning exemplify openness to the unknown and encourage creativity in the face of the unknowable, so let’s imagine institutional structures in art and design education that can enable and embody, as well as practise and perform, iterative and reflexive process-based learning.

This exercise in decolonial thought and action is neither utopia nor panacea; it is rather a clearing for generative ambiguities and ambivalences to emerge.  By tracing desire paths in creative teaching and learning environments, we can hope to unfix dominant premises and points of reference, unwind patterned reactions to pressures for production, and unmoor entrenched attitudes that hinder collaboration, cooperation, and change in institutions that seek to learn.

Cissie Fu (AB Harvard; MSt, MSc, DPhil Oxford) is a political theorist and co-founder of the Political Arts Initiative, which invites 21st-century imag-e-nations of the political through digital technology and the creative and performing arts.  She is currently Head of the McNally School of Fine Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore.