TheAssignment

The assignment is a half formed idea. Even this page seems unfinished? The assignment is also intimately tied to the TheStructureOfTheClassHasBeenAbsolved.

In our pre-assignment meeting on 10.04.2020 we analyzed our current situations and brainstormed possible approaches to the curriculum that could resolve them. Among the things we were afraid were:

• a "business as usual" approach to classes and assignments
• difficulty with creating routines
• difficulty with adapting the physical school routine to your current setup
• lack of motivation
• confrontation with the relevance of your work
• the question if learning can happen in design without a specific end goal (a final, designed "object")
• and crucially, the lack of community you all currently experience.

At the school, most learning happens communally, the classes and space are merely scaffolding that make it possible. Right now, you might be communicating, but you're not in a community.

In this assignment you are absolved of any individual responsibility. Instead, that responsibility becomes shared. There is no specific result or many requirements to attain, but there is a backbone: we will explore what it means to build a community. What are the concepts, guidelines, agreemeents to be? What images and visual information can mark it? As it is a community, it is defined solely by the personal relationships that form it. The breadth of your interest is wide so we will take a holistic stance to community development.