Rotterdam 3013 AE
Netherlands
The Independent School for the City is pleased to announce its new educational programme for 2022-2023! With a variety of activities, we are continuing our collective exploration into the inescapable complexity and contradictions of the contemporary city, using Rotterdam as our testing ground.
After the summer break we are starting our programme with the renowned FILM & ARCHITECTURE STUDIO which is organised in collaboration with the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam and for which both online and offline participation is possible. We’ll continue with an education programme on the future-proof planning of housing in the Netherlands with Elma van Boxel and Kristian Koreman of ZUS, titled MINISTRY OF MAKE!, followed by THE ROTTERDAM DREAM in October—a Research by Photography studio exploring Americanism in Rotterdam, with Charlie Koolhaas. In November we are exploring alternative models for a sustainable and just city past the growth imperative with BURA urbanism during the POST GROWTH CITY studio, and we wrap up 2022 with a workshop on the activist use of the Ukrainian traditional but very now embroidery technique Vyshyvanka. Also, don’t forget the deadline (1 December 2022) to subscribe to our 3-month course in contemporary urbanism: DIRTY OLD TOWN, taking place in February, March and April 2023. This is a crash course in contemporary urbanism, using the methods of architectural history, morphological research, filmmaking, urban sociology, storytelling and activism, including two themed workshops focusing on Superdiversity and the Anthropocene. So, check out our courses and sign up! All of them are open to all disciplines and all ages.
About the Independent School for the City
The Independent School for the City is a school in, of, and for the city. It was founded by Crimson Historians & Urbanists and ZUS (Zones Urbaines Sensibles) in 2018.
The School believes that the wave of global crises that we are confronted with demand a new kind of urbanism—both as a practice and as a field of research. Our cities need to be redesigned and re-thought. We can no longer afford to separate the conceptual from the practical, the political from the technical, and the form from the content, when dealing with today’s cities. Cultural identity and physical resilience, technological innovation and new narratives are different dimensions of our approach. Urgent challenges such as climate change, migration and inequality are at the heart of our programme. To sum it up: don’t let the crises put you down, or just enough to become aware and active and to create something for the good!
FILM AND ARCHITECTURE STUDIO 2023
September 5–October 6
Looking at the city through the language of film, led by Jord den Hollander
MINISTRY OF MAKE!
September 22–30
A four-day programme on the future-proof planning of housing in the Netherlands
THE ROTTERDAM DREAM
October 7–15
A Research by Photography studio exploring Americanism in Rotterdam, led by Charlie Koolhaas
POST GROWTH CITY
November 14–18
Exploring models for a sustainable and just city with BURA urbanism
VYSHYVANKA WORKSHOP
December 9–18
Learning about Vyshyvanka (Ukrainian embroidery) and using it as a form of resistance
DIRTY OLD TOWN; LEARNING FROM ROTTERDAM
February 6–April 28
A three-month course in contemporary urbanism, exploring the contradictions and complexities of the modern city
