Relearn is a summerschool which welcomes persons, artists, students, teachers from all backgrounds and disciplines. Participants will gather to learn from and teach to each other, beyond the traditional paradigms of education.
Relearn researches convivial, experimental and deviant methods and means in the fields of design, computing and education, challenging the normal roles and separations in them (teacher/student, developer/user, art/life...).
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Free, Libre and Open Source Software plays a fundamental role at Relearn, as it facilitates a different approach to the tools we commonly use in our practices and lives. For instance, it can allow us to understand the influence that tools themselves exert on the way they are used, or the different social relations and economies that are formed between who creates and uses them. Such a questioning approach to technology feels urgent, in a time in which more and more social, political and personal issues are addressed by solely technological means.
<p>For the Rotterdam control point on the Relearn curve, we propose to together attend to a <strong>subject zone</strong> (<strong>*</strong>) where different digital network practices intersect. This subject zone can morph into multiple directions throughout the session. Our specific interest is in how <strong>publishing formats</strong> (<strong>**</strong>) operate with/on/through this zone.</p>
<p><strong>*</strong> There are many questions in the air when we start to speak about digital infrastructures, hosters, servers, services, networks and their technical realities. Instead of picking one and diving deeper, we thought it would be more interesting to present a range and explore different vocabularies, protocols, technologies, infrastructures. We invite you to join Relearn to stretch this zone, starting from or moving towards:</p>
<p><strong>**</strong> We’re curious about learning through publishing formats. The different publishing formats serve as an invitation to embed ourselves within the subject zone of digital networks. How can these formats be our morphable lenses, that we use to relearn digital networks? Starting from or moving towards:</p>
<p>Many sub-trajectories can emerge from here during the days, without the need of taking the same path or agreeing about vocabularies or geometries altogether.</p>
<p>If you would like to join this Relearn session, please send an email to <ahref="mailto:info@varia.zone">info@varia.zone</a> with a short motivation of your interest. We will reply to subscriptions on a regular basis, up to the <strong>26<sup>th</sup> of May</strong>.</p>
<p>Our <em>capacities</em> allow us to have a group of 30 relearners. Our preference goes out to people that can join the whole session (Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday).
We will take care of a <em>daily vegetarian lunch</em> (please let us know about allergies or other dietary preferences). Following a tradition from previous years, we will arrange a <em>hosting network</em> in the city and find a place to stay for everyone. Please mention in the email if you need to be hosted or could host one or more relearners in your house.</p>
<li>Short introduction of tools to experiment with: <ahref='https://xxyxyz.org/'target='_blank'>Flat</a>, <ahref='http://sile-typesetter.org/'target='_blank'>Sile</a>, <ahref='https://www.pagedmedia.org/paged-js/'target='_blank'>paged.js</a>…</li>
<p>If you would like to join this Relearn session, please send an email to <ahref="mailto:miam@osp.kitchen">miam@osp.kitchen</a> with a short motivation of your interest. We will reply to subscriptions on a regular basis, up to the <strong>10<sup>th</sup> of June</strong>.</p>
<p>Our <em>capacities</em> allow us to have a group of 12 relearners. Our preference goes out to people that can join the whole session (Friday, Saturday).
We will take care of a <em>daily vegetarian lunch</em> (please let us know about allergies or other dietary preferences). Following a tradition from previous years, we will arrange a <em>hosting network</em> in the city and find a place to stay for everyone. Please mention in the email if you need to be hosted or could host one or more relearners in your house.
