Also mentioned in that previous article was an interesting video about Turkish academics starting their own alternative art institution. Long story short the government had fired any and all Turkish national university staff who had voiced solidarity with Kurdish resistance. Interestingly the staff that still had their jobs in the original institution organised a salary share with those carrying out unpaid work in this new art school. I wonder if that would happen in London?

This video by by Oscar Durand and Kathryn Hamilton nicely outlines the project and its intentions.

On looking into the legacy of Joseph Beuys’ alternative educational ideas I found out about the ‘Blueprint for Counter Education’. It was a boxed publication with accompanying posters that acted as a portable university founded by sociologist Maurice Stein and his collaborater Larry Miller. The great tagline reads: “This counter-university makes obsolete the traditional university process … There is no textbook, no final exam; and the ‘faculty’ includes Marcuse, McLuhan, Eldridge Cleaver, and Jean-Luc Godard.” It was/is an exciting pedagogical experiment to subvert the organization of knowledge in the form of a “highly participative series of art-life games”. As a graphic designer and huge fan of Dada I was immediately drawn to the design of the posters particularly in this satisfyingly sci-fi looking dummy room.

Heres the original article: https://www.tate.org.uk/research/tate-papers/31/beuys-legacy-artist-led-university-projects

And more info about the above: https://blueprintforcountereducation.com/