From CONTESTED_CITIES to global urban justice - critical dialogues

Description

DOING PEDAGOGY PUBLICLY: Asserting the right to the learning city by creating movement and encounter. In recent times the Occupy movements globally have asserted the right to the city as a learning space, with teach-outs and public speeches. In Occupy London, in particular, alongside new social relations, new ways of publicly educating were experimented with. This paper argues that a popular, critical education, such as the one experimented with in Occupy, can take up this mantel of doing pedagogy publicly. This way of enacting a radical public pedagogy would involve making connections between the civic agora, the ‘right to the city’ and a public and inclusive education, reconnecting people and places to form new learning spaces in the urban landscape, thus rendering the university a problematic space in need of rethinking. The paper concludes that the project may be simultaneous, the development of new education agora’s and the reclamation of the old ones – providing, of course, there is enough left to fight for.

Period	6 Jul 2016
Event type	Conference
Location	Madrid, SpainShow on map