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about
The School of Humans is a container for experiments and gatherings that closely examine the complexities of human relations and how we humans connect. Through exploratory conversation methods, we seek to gain expansive and deeper understanding of our collective lived experiences and to learn more about what it means to be human in these complex times.
event description
The School of Humans invites you to an experimental and intimate gathering where we will navigate the existential and emotional space underlying our collective existence. Through a day of collective inquiry, creation, cooking and eating together we’ll aim to build collective knowledge from lived experiences–enacting futures by being together in friction, resonance, dissonance, discomfort, creativity, and vulnerability. We’ll provide a loose structure that invites improvisation, negotiation, questioning, bravery and listening. The day will, in part, invent itself as it comes into being through the participants present.
schedule
Saturday, 24. October
11:00
Arrival: Pancakes and Introductions
13:00
Orienting questions: An invitation to reflect on the fundamental cultural concepts structuring our interpretation of reality.
14:00 – 14:15
Somatic Exercise
14:15 – 15:15
Reading and discussion of the Introduction to Stefano Harney and Fred Moten’s The Undercommons. How can we engage in improvisation and refusal to rehearse the future?
15:15
Lunch (range of dietary needs accommodated by SoH)
16:00
Creation phase: embodiment, experimentation, trying on, trying out, improvising
18:00
Closing drinks and hanging out
organizers
School of Humans is run by a rotating collective of care givers. This edition is being organized by Elisabeth Schifrin, Leny Garcia, Miche O’Higgins, and Rachel Uwa
to find us
School of Humans is being supported by it’s sister school, School of Machines, located at ACUD KUNST HAUS, Veteranenstr. 21, 10119 Berlin. To attend any of our events, go thru the big red doors on the right side past the mailboxes. Take a left once you exit towards the hinterhof. Then turn left and you will see the elevator there on your left. Take it to the 5th floor. :)