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<p id="title">Relearning Relearn</p>
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>2021</option
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Relearn is a collective learning experiment with as many teachers as
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it has participants. It is motivated by the possibility to displace
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parameters of/for research, studying and learning. <br /><br />
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<a href="#" class="more">Read more about Relearn.</a>
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Relearn is a summerschool which welcomes persons, artists,
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students, teachers from all backgrounds and disciplines.
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Participants will gather to learn from and teach to each other,
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beyond the traditional paradigms of education. Relearn researches
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convivial, experimental and deviant methods and means in the
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fields of design, computing and education, challenging the normal
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roles and separations in them (teacher/student, developer/user,
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art/life…).
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Free, Libre and Open Source Software plays a fundamental role at
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Relearn, as it facilitates a different approach to the tools we
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commonly use in our practices and lives. For instance, it can
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allow us to understand the influence that tools themselves exert
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on the way they are used, or the different social relations and
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economies that are formed between who creates and uses them. Such
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a questioning approach to technology feels urgent, in a time in
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which more and more social, political and personal issues are
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addressed by solely technological means.
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<p class="dash">///////////////////////////////////////////</p>
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Right now there is so very much to Relearn. We can't assume that we
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will be able to travel, cross borders, be together indoors, all
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things that were a given in the previous editions of Relearn. <br />
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<br /><a href="#" class="more">Read more about the 2021 edition.</a>
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<div class="details">
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This year, the material conditions of public moments of gathering
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such as Relearn come under scrutiny: the amount of energy, fuel,
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safety measures, etc. to make it possible with people coming from
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different places for a short amount of time.
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This is why we are thinking of this edition in terms of focusing
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on our local, Rotterdam. We do not see this as a turn towards some
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purely localist vision. We still wish to summon the best of what
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Relearn can offer: an international perspective and a chance to
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experience new and old ideas.
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We aim to explore the importance of self-organisation and the use
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of experimental tools to build alternative systems and economies
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within the urban fabric of Rotterdam. We will be focusing on the
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materialities of the everyday — e.g. even the most modest of
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actions, such as purchasing or disposing of any of the trillions
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of plastic objects causes them to circulate through the
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twenty-first century and thousands of years into the future.
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<p class="question">Details:</p>
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<li>Dates: 22-25 July</li>
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What we offer: <br />
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<span class="stars">*</span>
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3 days of focused discussions, experiments, exercises and
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speculation in various locations in Rotterdam (we'll have a meet
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and greet on the first night)
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<span class="stars">*</span> Rapid SARS-COV2 tests for every
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participant to make sure we stay as safe as possible <br />
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<span class="stars">*</span> Plenty of snacks and refreshments and
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3 vegetarian meals/snacks a day
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Not implicitly necessary: <br /><br />
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<span class="stars">*</span> Computers
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<a href="#" class="more">Read the open call for Relearn 2021</a>
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This year's edition will take place in and focus on Rotterdam. We
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aim to explore the importance of self-organisation and the use of
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experimental tools to build alternative systems and economies
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within the urban fabric of Rotterdam.
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We propose a focus on the materialities of the everyday. With this
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in mind we want to apply materialism as a methodology to different
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topics and places, tracing/mapping the roots of things, substances
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and material agencies that run through us in the everyday. We want
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to engage with modes of doing that deviate from the predominant
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Western mode of distancing the human from the material world. Some
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examples of directions in which we can go are: tracing the routes
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of the food we eat, the material aspects of internet
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infrastructure, ecological impact of daily choices and their
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relationship to systemic causes.
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In practice, it is an intensive IRL three day collective learning
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experiment with as many teachers as participants from all
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backgrounds and disciplines to learn from-and-teach each other,
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beyond the traditional paradigms of education from an interest in
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free culture and practices of care. There is no timetable or
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structure before hand, it will be defined by us together. Everyday
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different tracks (research vectors) will drive the
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conversation/work in different self-organised groups, which will
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reconvene at the end of each day to share and discuss the process
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(there is no expected outcome). As a result a printed publication
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will contain the documentation produced during the Relearn.
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We invite you to apply by sending a short 300 word or less
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motivation text to
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<a href="mailto:relearn2021@riseup.net">relearn2021@riseup.net</a>
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in which you can explain more about why a particular topic
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interests you, and how do you imagine we could engage with it as a
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group throughout the 3 days of Relearn. There is no admission
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cost. We also encourage you to share thoughts, ideas, references
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and images to our
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<a href="https://vvvvvvaria.org/logs/relearn-2021-anarchive/"
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>Relearn 2021 anarchive</a
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>. Find out more <a href="#anarchive">below</a>.
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<div class="anarchive">
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<a name="anarchive"></a>
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<p class="question">The what and the why of the Anarchive</p>
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In the run-up to July, we've opened up a shared digital space, as a
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low-tech hangout and a convivial mode of archiving. Analogous to the
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Relearn practice of archiving collective outputs without a focus on
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specific outcomes, this is our approach: the Relearn "anarchive".
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Our anarchive can be defined in many ways. An autonomous place for
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the Relearn community to dialogue without words. As the traces of
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our collective thinking-out-loud. A collective warm up exercise
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familiar to the materialities of the everyday group chat. A clutter
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of information that is not the documentation of a past activity but
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of something that evokes the not yet known. An unhierarchical
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accumulation of images, documents and links to spark the tracks that
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perhaps will run through Relearn.
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During the face-to-face event, we aim to have in-print forms of the
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anarchive available at hand. We will use the contents as a
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collective starting point for our discussions and a way to inform
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the mapping of our shared interests.
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<p class="question">How does it work?</p>
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The anarchive can be experienced as a group chat: it is open for
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anyone to join, without registration and accessible through a
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regular web browser. It is a place to meet other relearners and
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share thoughts, images, PDFs, texts etc.
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However, it is also a place to meet and interact with our friendly
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logbot. The
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<a href="https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/varia/bots">logbot</a> is a
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project which was created within the context of
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<a href="https://varia.zone">Varia</a> as a way to support our modes
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of organisation and our need for on-the-fly archiving. It is Python
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program, written and maintained by Varia members, which sits in our
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group chats when invited and acts as a helpful co-anarchivist. This
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mode of ad-hoc digital archiving between friends is something we
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want to bring to the process of documenting our experience at
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Relearn this year.
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The logbot responds by name and takes as input your submissions for
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the Relearn anarchive. It can also guide you in the ways of working
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via a special <code>@help</code> message. Once the logbot accepts a
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submission it will then make them public:
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>vvvvvvaria.org/logs/relearn-2021-anarchive</a
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>. You can also see the archive on the right-hand side of this very
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web page.
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<p class="question">How to contribute</p>
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If you are thinking through the loose ends of Relearn 2021 then
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please become a fellow anarchivist! You can visit the group chat via
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<a href="https://relearn2021.vvvvvvaria.org"
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>relearn2021.vvvvvvaria.org</a
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>, choose a username and then it is possible to upload texts,
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documents, images etc and chat with other relearners. Once you close
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the browser window, you will be "logged out". This is more temporary
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mode of interacting with the archive.
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It is also possible to log into the chat in a more permanent manner.
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The group chat is hosted on a server located in
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<a href="https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/varia-server/">Varia</a> and
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uses open source chat software. You can create an account and log in
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using a client on your computer or phone. To learn more about how to
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do that, see this
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<a href="https://xmpp.org/getting-started/">getting started guide</a
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>. Once you have your account, you can join the chat at this
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address:
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<a href="xmpp:relearn2021@muc.vvvvvvaria.org?join"
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>relearn2021@muc.vvvvvvaria.org</a
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>. If you would like to have a Varia server account, please let us
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know and we can facilitate that.
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