disobedient art school OPEN GATHERING #4

Start your weekend with a disobedient brainstorm!

When: May 29th, 16:30–19:00 Where: OT301 Info & registration: .d.a.s. #4

We're excited to invite you to our next gathering on Artistic Disobedience, a space to imagine new stories about the future, together.

What we'll do:

This brainstorm will centre around the Intangible Commons, the things we share but can't touch.

- Whose work goes unseen? Caregiving, emotional support, and imaginative work keep our communities alive, but these efforts are often ignored or undervalued. We'll look at why, and what changes when we put them at the center.

- Who else is doing this work? It's not just humans. Forests, soils, rivers, and animals also do the quiet work of keeping life going. How do we include them in how we plan and build?

- When "green" isn't really green. A lot of so-called eco-friendly development still wipes out the ecosystems already doing the work of sustaining life. We'll talk about what real care for a place looks like.

- Who belongs to a place? We'll rethink what it means to be "from" somewhere and how plants, animals, and land are part of that belonging too.

We'll also do a hands-on exercise in public space, looking at the everyday images that shape what we believe is "normal" or possible, ending with a discussion on how the crisis of imagination keeps things stuck the way they are and which stories maintain this status quo.

The Ideas gathered in these meetings will shape our next publication and continually inform the shaping of the disobedient art school as a collaborative project.

Bring your creativity and some snacks.

Warmly,

.d.a.s. team