Teaching & Research
The Antifragile Classroom
2020
UAL Insights and the School of Media and Communications, LCF hosted an online workshop for school teachers inviting me to share ideas around radical pedagogies and its impact on student and staff wellbeing.
Our objective was to explore through practice the principles for a critical, creative and joyful teaching and learning community that facilitates new knowledge for both student and teacher. We considered the type of individual and collective subjectivities we have the privilege to foster in our communities, and how that experience is inherently aesthetic.
During the day we explored various pedagogic strategies that experiment with alternative ideas of ourselves, our world and our futures; choosing where possible to be creative rather than reactive. This is a mindset as explored in wider research through the Antifragile, and chimes with ideas of a post-structuralist subjectivity that is creative and dynamic.
The consideration of psychic wellbeing is founded upon a subjectivity that is able to express themselves, connect with others and their environment, and develop agency. The workshop offered a tool kit for identity building and manifesto making that can be augmented for student purposes.