The Silent University
The Silent University
Towards a Transversal Pedagogy
ed. by Florian Malzacher, Ahmet Öğüt, Pelin Tan ; with contr. by Florian Malzacher, María do Mar Castro Varela, Chantal Mouffe, …[et al.]

Author(s)
Florian Malzacher, María do Mar Castro Varela, Chantal Mouffe, Ahmet Öğüt, Rubia Salgado, Pelin Tan, Silent Universities (Amman, Athens, Hamburg, London, Mülheim/Ruhr, Stockholm)
Editor(s)
Florian Malzacher, Ahmet Öğüt, Pelin Tan
Publication
Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2016
Scope
140 Pages, illustrated, 23.5 cm.
ISBN
9783956792458

The Silent University, initiated by artist Ahmet Öğüt in 2012, is an autonomous platform for academics who cannot share their knowledge due to their status of residence, because their degrees are not recognized or regaining access to academia is blocked for other reasons. It is a solidary school by refugees, asylum seekers and migrants who contribute to the program as lecturers, consultants and researchers. This first comprehensive publication about the Silent University introduces the initiative and contextualizes it in the wider framework of both radical pedagogy and socially engaged art projects. In addition, all current branches of the Silent University—in Amman, Athens, Hamburg, London, Mülheim/Ruhr, and Stockholm—describe their very different achievements as well as their struggles and failures.


Keywords
counter culture , multiculturalism , art education - academy (professionals) , art academies
Location
Cabinet 10 - 1: Kunst educatie
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