Invitation to Participate in ThinkTank

[Cassie Thornton]

Hey School,
A collective... THE collective, Nsumi, is hosting a thinktank this coming weekend at School of the Future.  It will be one of the most innovative and adventurous moments at the school, and I want to encourage you all to participate.  As I see it, it is a brainstorming session about how people in academia can use the resources and networks available through these concrete stodgy institutions to turn them inside out.  Through developing a network of rebellious and creative students and teachers, Nsumi is trying to save the academic landscape by planting seeds of mutant anarchy and revolution in any visible crack of our educational systems.  The official description is below, including ways to participate and a more refined description.  I recommend coming in a dragon costume, or in drag.
-Cassie

Mutant Student Groups Think Tank, by Nsumi Collective

Students and teachers are invited to join us as we re-imagine what a
student organization can be. “Mutant Student Groups” is a 3-day Think Tank
composed of workshops, discussions, activities and readings focused on
starting experimental extra-curricular organizations within colleges and
high schools.

We will create a bridge between extra-curricular school-based activities
and non-conformist art drawing from Dadaism, Futurism, flash mobs,
happenings, performance art, net art, and discordianism. We will question
the traditions and social patterns of student-led organizations and
collectively design new and unconventional groups. We will analyze how
such groups might come into being in various social, economic and
geographic contexts and provide concrete advise and direction to students
or teachers who want to start a mutant group.

To participate in this event please email swi...@nsumi.net with your
affiliation (e.g. “student”, “teacher”, ”mom”, “poet”) and whether you

would like to be a full 3-day participant—which involves filling out a
brief questionnaire—or a “Drop-In”/part-time participant. Drop-ins are
welcome to join us Friday July 23rd @ 6pm or Saturday July 24th @ 12 noon.
Sections of this event will take place outside of the SotF campus, so
please be sure to RSVP either way and join our text-blast.
http://nsumi.net.

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can be anywhere,
wherever,
forever.  And ever.
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[e knafo]

Hi SoTF

I am working on a collective/collaborative textbook making project at
SoTF. We had our first workshop last week and it was super! Got some
good pages already...
It would be awesome if all you great people out there facilitating and
attending SoTF's classes would contribute pages as a record of the
summer's topics and experiments. If you are interested you can lay
something out and send me however many 8.5 x 11 pdfs and it will be
added to the book. The only parameters I am interested in is that you
make clear some sort of title for the page/topic. This will be printed
b&w most likely.

Feel free to include opinions, reflections or approach this as a record
of the curriculum you created or some other document of your participation.

Looking forward to a brilliant table of contents...

Elizabeth

917 650 7484

[Chris Kennedy]

Yes!

I will try and get folks to do this for sure.

ck

--
Christopher Lee Kennedy
Unschooling Education | www.schoolofthefuture.org

Institute for Applied Aesthetics | www.applied-aesthetics.org
(201) 981 - 1576

[Paula Z. Segal]

Is there a book?!?!?!

[Cassie Thornton]

good question!  chris and i thought we could revisit all things of the future in january over break...  any thoughts from the professional peanut gallery?
how is it out there?

[e knafo]

January break is the ticket...! I have not assembled the PDFS or typed up scrolls. Got a job which overtook my life for now. But I would love to jump back in to this once my semester is done.
xoE

[Paula Z. Segal]

yay! to everyone! and to january break!

[Katherine Jernejec]

I am on break then as well, let me know if you need any help.
Love to see the SotF crew again ( :
Katy

--
Katherine May Jernejec

[Lucinda Kalin]

I'm on Team January too! Go us!

Hang in there till then all!
- Lucinda

[Aaron Finbloom]

oui oui

[Chris Kennedy]

hey all,

yes i think this winter break sounds good!

below is an outline of two tasks i keep starring at and wish i had time to work more on:

1. Online Archive:

 for each class/project:

Course Logistics	Teaching/Learning Strategies	Description	Image
Class Title
Teacher(s)
Date/Recurring	Artifacts/Resources
Approximate No. of Students

 

2. SotF Planning Guide for the Future (for teaching students)

1. Planning and Logistics - What are we doing here in this community?
2. The Site - Responding to locality, environment and neighborhood; Architecture
3. People - Recruitment, teaching bodies, student teachers
4. System - What do you want to learn, what do you want to teach?
5. Implementation - Architecture, the elements
6. Research and Documentation 

with combined forces and collaborative zeal i think i can look at this for more than 10 minutes!

hugs 

CK

--
Christopher Lee Kennedy

[r d]

count me in during the break

thanks

Richard

[Lacey Tauber]

Me too!  

Lacey

[nick normal]

i LOVE getting school of the future emails! yay!

keep on teaching!

Nick Normal

[Kate Clark]

same for me!

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www.kateclarkprojects.com

[Jose]

And me! Excited for winter break!

[Barrie Cline]

Look forward to it..

Sent from my iPhone

[ja...@thing.net]

Awesome!
Sounds like fun.

Nsumi is doing a version of our think tank in Miami in December, email me
if you will be in miami and we can get Cuban food or something.

http://www.hashtagclass.com/rank/mutant-student-groups-think-tank-by-nsumi-collective/
http://www.seven-miami.com/

--
James Andrews

Nsumi Collective
Teaching Artists Union, NYC
James Daugherty Trust

[catherine grau]

hi SotF,

i won't be physically present winter break, but would love to participate somehow...

in producing the archive, giving more reflections or input for the future of SotF

(also thinking about how SotF could make a visit/extend to Berlin...)

is the Nsumi think tank this weekend?

what are the exact times/dates?

love to all,

catherine

[Kate Goyette]

count me in!

Kate

[ja...@thing.net]

it's in early december.
the participants will be miami art students and their teachers. but we
will be there for a few days hanging around.

[Tara DePorte]

I'm afraid I'll be gone.  Good luck!

Tara

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Tara DePorte
Executive Director and Founder
The Human Impacts Institute
NYC Climate Coalition, A Program of the Human Impacts Institute
www.NYCClimate.org
Ta...@HumanImpactsInstitute.org
Phone +1 917 727 9761

Adjunct Professor and Lecturer
Columbia University, NYC
The New School, NYC
Webster University, Leiden, The Netherlands
www.TaraDePorte.com/TeachingMainPage.html

Tara DePorte Art
www.TaraDePorte.com
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