The classroom will not be annexed.
The classroom will be built, rebuilt, destroyed and then begun again on the street, in the shed, in the studio, in the park, in our heads and the fucking cosmos.
The Elementary Forms Guild is a response to the collapsing classroom, the broken system of knowledge making and world building, the desperate cry for thoughts, ideas, and thinking —to burnt schools and burning imaginations.
It is an incremental architecture, a reluctant index of imagination, an attempt to form a body politic through thinking, reading, doing, and making. The Guild will traverse philosophy, art, architecture, anthropology, cinema, physics, law, theatre, and other fields near and far. Through interdisciplinary practices—working with sound, image, fiction, ideas, and the world around us—we seek to cultivate new pedagogies, experimental practices, and emergent publics.
Our classrooms, events, and encounters will gather questions, obsessions, rumours, freedoms, virtual worlds, psychotropic fragments and other shards of impossibility to chase the future out from behind the broken legs of the past and kill and create it once again.
This is a circle of friends//a street corner tea shop conversation//a shifting signifier//a new latitude//
a classroom//the fellowship of the ring?//
With fellow Guild makers
@kaldi_moss @bulletprooflama @cityowltypes @zanskar_chaudhari @tusharmehta1 @bianca.ballantyne.studio @alo_pix @rima.ray @instaadityaa @yushtravelspvtltd_ @haunted_by_modernism
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