Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco The University as Giant App | Los Angeles Review of Books 2026-06-27T06:12:17+00:00 https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/rule-world-education-power-stanford-tech-theo-baker/ robertogreco stanford highered highereducation arjunappadurai eugenics billionaires neoliberalism siliconvalley academia theobaker 2026 governance technofeudalism sergeybrin jdsalinger nepobabies frederickterman skunkworks ivyleague hooverinstitution ronaldreagan georgeschultz miltonfriedman condoleezzarice war diplomacy casbs caltech mit kazuoishiguro peterthiel marcandreessen elonmusk samaltman socialdarwinism whistleblowing pronatalism geneticengineering ethics marctessier-lavigne science engineering xairatherapeutics johnshopkins technology bayarea thorsteinveblen us vc venturecapital speculation wealth privilege exclusivity race class gender https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6199433d0022/ What Has Happened to Taste? 2026-05-27T07:57:56+00:00 https://www.esquire.com/style/a71276009/what-has-happened-to-taste/ robertogreco tiffanyng taste 2026 socialmedia online internet web blackbirdspyplane susansontag montesquieu algorithms kylechayka culture pinterest spotify johanweiner erinwylie tastemakers trends perception reality jeanbaudrillard simulacra simulation mainstream exclusivity compliance consensus connoisseurs connoisseurship baudrillard franlebowitz signaling subjectivity aesthetics introspection thinking howwethink deadinternettheory guydebord dérive derive situationist being having instagram objects membership society engagement are.na internetwalks visibility https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:288eae64d312/ The Vicious, Potentially Fatal Anti-Public School Propaganda Cycle 2026-05-12T04:07:11+00:00 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-vicious-potentially-fatal-anti robertogreco publicschool schools schooling propaganda privatization charterschools charters privateschools enrollment misinformation rightwing schoolreform admissions attrition selectivity metrics education children schooliness exclusivity exclusion https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e8a9931b0a3a/ How elites co-opted wokeness - YouTube 2026-04-13T17:24:00+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi2A3YtsoT8 robertogreco musaal-gharbi seanilling wokeness 2010 2024 politics language socialmovements polarization inequality georgefloyd capitalism progressive progressivism highered highereducation academia journalism change policy elitecapture elites georgefloyduprising politicaleconomy symbolism knowlegework ideology politicalcorrectness 1980s 1990s 2010s 2020s activism left right sanctimony 1930s 1920s 1960s eliteoverproduction jackgoldstone peterturchin popularimmiseration elitism culture gatekeeping sociology bertrandcooper professionalmanagerialclass media education pmc nytimes exclusion exclusivity symboliccapitalism class hierarchy hierarchies meritocracy socialclimbing status egalitarianism ambition classism socialposition superiority antiwoke recognition culturewars culturewar society ethnicity representation pierrebourdieu institutions credentials credentialism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8fefad3e40db/ When People Say They Want to Send Their Kid to a Good School, They Usually Mean Schools Without "Bad Kids" 2026-03-24T20:43:27+00:00 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/when-people-say-they-want-good-schools robertogreco schools schooling parenting 2026 freddiedeboer education robertpondiscio learning howwelearn successacademy charters charterschools selectivity publicschools exclusivity privateschools zoning exclusion nclb geofreycanada harlemchildrenszone teaching howweteach pedagogy disruption behavior children jonathanchait segregation desegregation society inequality admissions demographics policy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:da158314f581/ How luxury brands engineer desire with behavioural economics | Psyche Ideas 2025-10-03T16:32:15+00:00 https://psyche.co/ideas/how-luxury-brands-engineer-desire-with-behavioural-economics robertogreco luxury economics manipulation vintage 2025 charlottewren architecture fashion capitalism behavior scarcity psychology consumerism consumption society louisvuitton christiandior fendi givenchy celine gucci sybmolism chanel zara h&m versace escada plannedobsolescence authenticity individuality quality self-expression beauty aesthetics myth myths online marketing hype ads advertising exclusivity hermès tommyhilfiger danathomas china handmade dior https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:07184d89dbc1/ Podcast Insights E23 - Rolex vs. Gen X - BEYOND THE DIAL 2025-07-24T23:14:55+00:00 https://www.beyondthedial.com/post/e63-rolex-vs-gen-x/ robertogreco tolisten 2021 rolex genx generationx 1980s 1990s vintage nationalism luxury economics watches allenfarmelo umbertoeco traditionalism conservatism technology past marinetti futurism italianfuturists modernity futurists antiestablishment fascism progressivism environmentalism directaction greenpeace luddism luddites neoluddites neoluddism waltwhitman thoreau resistance left society analog liberalism liberals corporations corporatism filippotommasomarinetti filippomarinetti counterculture 1960s backtotheland communalism progress stephengreenblatt philosophy future thomasaquinas christianity atheism time democracy ancientgreece epicureanism ethics silentgeneration generations boomers babyboomers paralysisofanalysis thinking howwethink rebellion communes hippies romanticism childhood ingenuity forums flamewars online internet digital digitization change web billclinton neoliberalism globalization plannedobsolescence quality repair maintenance deindustrialization jean-claudebiver switzerland blancpain vintagenation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fc3f9345a3e8/ Why You Should Hate the Rich Even More (with Rob Larson) 2025-06-19T05:15:10+00:00 https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/why-you-should-hate-the-rich-even robertogreco chrishedges 2025 roblarson billionaires inequality wealth eattherich rulingclass neoliberalism charlesdickens policy politics power oligarchy fscottfitzgerald ernesthemingway gildedage robberbarons richistan class georgewbush philanthropy hedonism selfishness authority money propaganda publicrelations carlessness greatgatsby aristotle machiavelli alexisdetocqueville adamsmith karlmarx repression exploitation manipulation poor workingclass thomaspiketty globalism passports residency globalists middleclass panamapapers taxavoidance taxevasion taxes elonmusk psychology frankrich michaelbloomberg happiness pleasure succession arresteddevelopment winstonchurchill democrats joebiden kamalaharris unitedhealthcare stevebannon brianthompson socialism marxism economics wallstreet edwolff crypto cryptocurrencies assests barackobama 2008 greatrecession globalfinancialcrisis hillaryclinton johnderockefelleriii marieantoinette newdeal labor billgates labormovements katewagnder mccmansionhell cwrightmills elizabethwarren sy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8ae646d5acd2/ Private Schools Don't Want an All-Private-School-Voucher Future 2025-04-24T04:45:13+00:00 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/private-schools-dont-want-an-all robertogrecoIn campaigning for the bill, supporters did not dwell on old arguments that promoted choice’s potential to improve public education through competition, or on the belief that academic achievement would improve in private schools. Instead, Gov. Greg Abbott and allies emphasized parental rights and personalized learning. They also leaned on the culture war issues that have dominated the Trump era, arguing that vouchers would allow families to escape liberal teachings on gender, sexuality and race. This has been one of the most obvious shifts in ed reform debates since the high-water mark of liberal zeal for school reform during the middle of the Obama administration. Private school vouchers became more directly right-wing coded as liberals doubled down on charter schools, and as they did, school quality improvements ceased to be a central argument in their favor. In part, this was because conservatives cared about other values, in part it was because “freedom” and “choice” proved to be a more effective sales pitch, and in part it was because the research record regarding school vouchers is truly dismal. I must admit that, as much as I hate the whole agenda - public funds should be used for public schools, not private enterprise, and particularly not for religious indoctrination - there’s something refreshing about this abandonment of equality jargon as a justification for ed policy. Typically school reform types hold on to their justice rhetoric like death. It makes me think of a bit of a counternarrative that I’ve heard about charters over the years, actually. Charter schools have been wrapped up in liberatory language for so long it’s hard to extricate the concept from that packaging. Core to that promise is the “no child left behind” element, the idea that the school reform movement has a deep moral duty to save each and every kid and that the various tools school districts and states have used to shuffle poorly-performing students off the books are immoral.1 It’s for that reason that longstanding and serious concerns about how charter schools manipulate their student bodies are so morally challenging for the movement; if it’s true that the best charter schools develop that reputation by getting selective with admissions in a way public schools can’t, it directly undermines their claims to being part of a righteous reform movement. But as the years have passed since my first book came out and I’ve talked to more and more people from various places in the educational landscape, I’ve heard from a few charter-adjacent people - a half-dozen parents maybe, a handful of teachers and administrators - who actually affirm the very thing that I’ve been accusing charters of for years: that they exist as a tool to prune incoming student bodies, using various tricks to keep out the students who are hardest to educate. A few brave souls have told me, in fact, that such exclusionary behavior is exactly the point. Exactly the point, that is, because in this telling it’s precisely the universal guarantee of public education that ruins everything. To hear these rare advocates tell it, a central problem with struggling schools and districts is that the students who don’t care and don’t want to be there are disruptive of the whole enterprise, ruining it for everyone else. This is a hard matter to prove empirically - like just about everything else in the research record, the evidence for peer effects is far more muted than you’d guess based on rhetoric - but certainly in the broader social sense feels intuitively compelling. It’s hard to run a school with violence issues, hard to give adequate attention to students who need it when constantly diverted to behavioral problems, hard to justify using resources on students who plainly don’t want to be there. So for those charter advocates, the selection bias is a feature, not a bug. The whole point is to give the kids who care a chance to escape from the places that have to warehouse the kids who don’t. I think that this is also quietly at play with the deeper question of whether school really has much impact on quantitative metrics at all. As I tell people all the time, parents have almost literally zero sense of a given school’s educational quality, despite evincing total confidence in that understanding; I personally believe that school quality (as defined as the ability to manipulate quantitative metrics and relative placement in the performance distribution!) is largely illusory, but even if you don’t agree, sorting out what’s input and what’s output is really challenging. I often want to ask parents who are sending their kids to Montessori or whatever if they’re really confident that it’s going to result in better learning outcomes for their kid; I suspect that they know that their kid is going to flourish anywhere. (Parents tend to understand the inelasticity of school outcomes when it comes to their own kid, even if that reality remains untenable as a broader observation; they don’t expect their child to bounce around from A student to D and back again, they expect their child to perform as well as they always have.) Which again speaks to a part of all this that usually goes unspoken, for obvious reasons: a lot of parents, even progressive parents, just don’t want their kids to go to school with the wrong sort. Sometimes that’s explicitly racist and classist. More often, I suspect, it’s inchoate and vague. But still powerful. Which brings me to private school generally. One important point about American education that I think often goes under the radar: private school teachers, in general, get paid less than their public school counterparts. Often a lot less, with typical estimates for median pay gap around $15-$20k a year. And even this is a little distorted, given that the priciest private academies will often pay dramatic outlier salaries to their teachers, bending the average up. This is all true despite the fact that there isn’t any particular pedagogical difference between public and private; while there are specific private school traditions like Montessori that have some systematic pedagogical differences, private schools generally teach the same material in about the same way as public. (You’ll note that ed reform boilerplate is almost always about teacher hiring and firing decisions, tenure, pay, “accountability,” etc. - that is, administrative issues, not pedagogical.) So why would private school teachers accept such a scenario, making much less money than their public counterparts while doing more or less the same thing in the classroom? The answer, of course, is that private schools screen out the hardest-to-educate kids, making the job of a teacher much more attractive. I don’t think this is some libelous argument. The costs of private school alone tend to make the student bodies much easier to manage, many have onerous application processes that can require a transcript review and/or testing, many have requirements regarding past attendance and behavior, and with a few exceptions related to federally-prohibited discrimination, they can refuse any students they choose. Private schools also rarely offer special education services unless they are specifically dedicated to that task, and practically speaking they have far less onerous standards to meet if parents allege that their special education student’s needs aren’t being met. (Special ed is, for the record, the biggest source of supposed cost and efficiency advantages that private schools have over public; special ed cost public schools $50 billion a year… a quarter century ago.) In general, private school student bodies are far richer and whiter than public, with dramatically lower behavior and attendance problems and with more engaged and dedicated parents. This is what private school teachers are getting in exchange for lower salaries; it’s just a far easier job thanks to the differences in who you’re teaching. And so consider now the longstanding libertarian dream of getting rid of government-funded and run schools altogether and just distributing money to parents to pay for private schooling. This doesn’t work for a variety of reasons, and the special ed point is a good example of why; like a lot of government-funded enterprise, K-12 schooling relies on pooling money together to pay for costs that are unequal from student to student. (That is to say, a kid/the parents of a kid who’s not in special ed, doesn’t have serious behavioral problems, and doesn’t require remediation are in a certain sense subsidizing those who do.) There’s also the fact that, as the NYT piece says, in many contexts the introduction of private school vouchers simply incentivizes local private schools to raise their prices. But those private school teachers and their worse salaries, worse job security, and lack of labor power point to the bigger problem: the whole enterprise of private school is built on exclusion. Parents don’t like private school despite the fact that private schools exclude certain kinds of students. They like private schools because they exclude certain kinds of students. Switch the United States to an all-voucher system, and suddenly you’re threatening both what parents like about sending their kids to private school and what private school employees like about working in them. This, again, is a case of where having a big educational network has helped me hear the quiet part out loud. Talk to some people involved in the world of private education, and you’ll note a great deal of ambivalence towards the idea of a vastly larger world of vouchers. Of course they’d like to get their hands on some tax dollars. But very few are eager to simply become the workforce of a new de facto public school system; that’s not what they got into private education for, and it’s certainly not why most parents like private schools. I know that some will treat this as a terribly inflammatory set of statements, but it’s simply the case that what defines the sales job for private school is the fact that it is not public school. And voucher programs already underline that fact. The Times piece points out that “new schools founded to take advantage of private-school choice policies have sometimes struggled to find their footing and shut down quickly, sending students back into public education.” Why are new schools necessary when voucher programs have tended to remain limited in size, relative to public schooling? Because in general, private schools that accept vouchers are not necessarily giving up any of their usual right to selectivity - meaning that parents might be newly armed with money, but unable to spend it at the schools of their choice. An inevitable outcome of a vast new voucher system is going to be a mushrooming number of shitty, fly-by-night schools that exist simply to sop up loose voucher cash. The “good” private schools will remain out of reach to most families, which is imperative for those schools, because their status as “good” schools depends on having good student bodies, that is, on their continuing to exclude marginal students. And once we understand this, we’re really putting a ton of weight on the value of CHOICE in and of itself. Is that really what parents crave, choice? Or is it the choice to get into a good school? And are they prepared to grapple with the question of whether good schools are good precisely because they exclude the hardest-to-educate students? Two things that sit in tension with each other: government-funded and run universal education for all children is one of the best things this country ever did, and exclusion has always been core to education and how it functions. I am a big, big fan of compulsory public education for children, even though I think that students should be able to drop out sooner than policy currently allows. That surprises some people, given that I think that different individual students have different individual levels of academic potential and this potential seems largely static. But that’s only a knock against universal education if you think the point is for everyone to become an academic star, which is the opposite of what I think. The fact remains, though, that for most the world’s history, before reformers like John Dewey spread the gospel of universal potential, very few assumed that education had an egalitarian purpose at all. Education, for much of the world’s history, has been fundamentally about preparing an already-blessed elite. And while that assumption came packaged with all manner of noxious attitudes, the rise of egalitarian educational rhetoric has brought with it the many distributional paradoxes I’m forever pointing out. It remains true that there’s only room for 1% of students in the academic 1%, and that it will never be possible for every student - and every school - to be above average. High school kids who get rejected from their dream college might cry for the missed opportunity. But they still don’t wish that the school would drop all of its selectivity and start accepting every student who applies; part of what they dreamed of, after all, was being blessed by that selectivity. Something like that is happening with private school too, where more and more vouchers are inevitably going to make plain the reality that what parents want for their kids is precisely to set them up in an ivory tower that those other kids can’t climb into."]]> freddiedeboer 2025 school education policy inequality segregation class vouchers charterschools gregabbott schoolchoice edreform reform barackobama donaldtrump republicans democrats achievement metrics privateschools independentschools accountability religion specialeducation specialed accessibility gatekeeping libertarianism economics society publicschools efficiency pedagogy teaching howweteach discrimination us nytimes selectivity universaleducation government governance compulsory privatization johndewey elitism elite exclusivity exclusion labor work unions schooling wealth wealthinequality classism racism race outcomes schoolreform relgion indoctrination https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ccfc98b9f130/ GUSTAVO PETRO en La Pizarra: "MILEI es un NOSTÁLGICO de MUSSOLINI" | LA PIZARRA - 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CS Lewis Society of California 2023-06-13T20:45:34+00:00 https://www.lewissociety.org/innerring/ robertogreco cslewis belonging corruption insiders exclusivity exclusion outsiders innerring loneliness humiliation conscientiousness confusion disappointment competition scoundrels scoundrelism desire graft morality moralism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0e9b7b004896/ 270 – The Future is Degrowth (w/ Aaron Vansintjan) – srsly wrong 2023-01-15T20:19:08+00:00 https://srslywrong.com/podcast/270-the-future-is-degrowth-w-aaron-vansintjan/ robertogreco degrowth capitalism neoliberalism ecology environment growth 2022 murraybookchin technology economics society politics aaronvansintjan srslywrong via:sevensixfive globalnorth globalsouth democracy wellbeing hierarchy feminism care caring qualityoflife gdp inequality work labor alienation identity productivity competition marxism ecofeminism queerfeministtheory feministmarxistheory carework gender industrialism ivanillich rachelcarson urbanaism authoritarianism internationalism development workingclass equity socialjustice accumulation social socialabundance conviviality convivialtools libraries property sharing luxury abundance fullyautomatedluxurycommunisim communism austerity andrégorz publicabundance class exclusivity greatacceleration progress leighphillips oppression imperialism unchooling deschooling canon ideology horizontality exploitation consumerism consumption erikolinwright nowtopia utopia change andreavetter matthiasschmelzer institutions changemaking universalbasicincome basicservices library https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d967bacc0d6c/ This is an Essay by Hanif Abdurraqib About Sneakers | SSENSE 2022-08-13T22:32:02+00:00 https://www.ssense.com/en-us/editorial/fashion/this-is-an-essay-by-hanif-abdurraqib-about-sneakers robertogreco hanifabdurraquib collections collecting authority 2022 social shoes sneakers relationships exclusivity inclusivity learning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e8e1fe82f9c0/ The Extraordinary King of Luxury Fashion - 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YouTube 2022-01-28T20:29:45+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g robertogreco 2022 nfts capitalism crypto cryptocurrency cryptocurrencies blockchain web3 greatrecession globalfinancialcrisis 2008 mortgagebackedsecurities danolson finance speculation housing markets power energy regulation greed electricity silkroad gambling scams ethereum banks banking governance government data computing inequality siliconvalley peterthiel dell michaeldell microsoft square libertarianism camillarusso journalism medicalsectors technosolutionism technology systems systemsthinking disruption waste inefficiency scale scalability decentralization centralization exclusivity standardization shipping tracking fraud daos democracy volativity tether liquidity coinbase stephendiehl biggerfoolscam financialization hype fear uncertainty doubt pumpanddump phishing insidertrading malware privacy security possession ownership access transactions dystopia drm enforcement corporations tokens paywalls rules oppression money skymaven motivation games gaming economics videogames justice injustice society jürgengeuter f https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fdc024682b20/ Watches Cost More Than Ever: Are You Getting What You Pay For? 2022-01-14T18:15:18+00:00 https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/have-price-and-quality-filed-for-divorce-in-luxury-watchmaking robertogreco jackforster 2022 watches capitalism exclusivity luxury craft business hype marketing scarcity materials money flexing canon watchcanon https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f5907c156c78/ Dan 태영 on Twitter: "as much as I loved my grad arch school, part of this project needs to be about understanding how the formal/aesthetic aspects of my architectural pedagogy might be deeply racist, or denialist in the privileging of form, concept, ag 2020-08-19T21:23:36+00:00 https://twitter.com/dantaeyoung/status/1277838307544662018 robertogrecoIs this just a coincidence, that the Black-led abolitionist occupation is about sharing space next to each other while the oft white-dominated Occupy was about having enclosed, personal territories? “The dream school isn’t a school.” ❤️ One of my lenses is K-12 lens, and this list is important to me. It’s also important that bell hooks comes first, as she references Freire specifically critiquing his attitude to gender especially, challenging him https://twitter.com/dantaeyoung/status/1277891278353678336
The dream school isn’t a school. An abolitionist society doesn’t need cops for us to be safe OR schools for us to learn. As bell hooks & Ivan Illich & Paulo Freire write: we can have deschooled society and liberatory & transgressive learning. we keep us safe / we teach each other
Considering “the dream school isn’t a school,” an abolitionist and transformative future, and voices that build upon the past while addressing our time, here are two pointers (among so many great options) for additional reading. 1. Akilah S. Richards’s Fare of the Free Child podcast and forthcoming book Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work https://raisingfreepeople.com/podcast/ https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1145 + 2. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s essay “Being with the Land, Protects the Land” and book As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance https://abolitionjournal.org/being-with-the-land-protects-the-land-leanne-betasamosake-simpson/?fbclid=IwAR2M8qr9CaeXOLs9q3kaGcCxkrhqnbCveEFCGmrnLE7RHwWiqIDhavHLJFM https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/as-we-have-always-done one more from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: “Land as pedagogy: Nishnaabeg intelligence and rebellious transformation” https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/22170 ” [image with abstract]] “as much as I loved my grad arch school, part of this project needs to be about understanding how the formal/aesthetic aspects of my architectural pedagogy might be deeply racist, or denialist in the privileging of form, concept, agency, design in architectural spaces design focused on authorship, identity, difference is deeply problematic. It treats space as being about trying to be as “non-fungible” as possible, a “unique product” rather than a living thing that is deeply connected to our notions of community and relation the notion of “new designs” is also deeply problematic; (I forget whose argument this is) The focus on newness is a fundamentally market driven understanding of architecture, where value is achieved through distinction from other spaces. Spaces $ because they’re not like others most of architectural pedagogy is a kind of giant commodity fetishizaton of a space. architecture is valued by a logic that is a logic of the market, not about SPACE ITSELF. How space is monetarily priced becomes how space is valued. Or in other words: in architecture, instead of really caring about space first, then understanding second that different spaces might have different prices on a real estate market.. we are conditioned to care about space based on how much a profit oriented market pays for it And the qualities of the market have actually become transmuted into the default pedagogical philosophies of most “”top”” architecture schools. This is what Marx calls reification - things appearing to have inherent ‘properties’ that actually come from social relations A real estate market being reified into pedagogy would focus on newness and innovation in the studio pinup as a method to have unique and desirable “products” of space, teach implicitly that we should strive to have designs that are different from each other, a product mindset A property-ist pedagogy influenced by fine art historical (art market) discourse would focus on authorship, and celebrate designers by tossing around their names, or focus on their bodies of work, or focus on the idea of “The Practice” The commodity-ist architecture pedagogy/discourse that we seem to have is all about space, design, form, concept, all about space itself, focusing on the qualities of the commodity, not its relations, not its participation within an ecology of social relations and politics Let me be specific: are architects trained for spatial contexts where “not designing anything” is the right answer? NO. Hence the “design a better border wall / design a better prison trap”. What would design pedagogy be if it was open to the possibility of not designing? And I don’t mean some sort of shitty paper architecture conceptual play (very fun and meaningless tbh). I mean not designing where the “design” is the problematic part, the “architecture as commodity” is the part to transform What would an architecture school, a spatial school look like, when commodity logics aren’t absorbed and taken as pedagogical logics?? What would an architecture school look like if space was defetishized, seen for what it actually FEELS, SUPPORTS, CREATES between people - and we used that logic of social relations and politics instead? At this school, the anticapitalist, the antiracist, decolonialist, abolitionist, transformative justice school of my dreams, our dreams, design projects would not result in a jury or a critic. Instead, you would have a group that you’re working with, and the end of the project .. would result in the entire group just saying thoughtful and nice things about the group’s project. This would be because the whole POINT of the semester would be about learning to facilitate a conversation, to cooperate and listen, and find a consensus around the shared project. Projects would not be thought of as “design” projects and representations would focus on social systems, politics, emotions, proxemics, rather than just visual aesthetics. Like Fanon’s sociogeny but applied onto space As the coordinator of an exploratory arch representation course for all M.Archs at Columbia GSAPP, I’m working on this, but want to push it further. Every architectural representation should involve a discussion on the politics of that type of representation. Not just the politics of renderings, say, but even asking the question: why the fuck is it that in architecture school, pedagogy continues to focus on an examination of even a drawing “about” the building - plans, sections, diagrams, renderings, etc etc Why do attempts to answer this question often seem to land in a politics-bereft and easily instrumentalized paper architecture that just continues the commodity fetish space, then playing back into boosting architectural representation even further I know what I’m saying might seem like an “old topic” in arch and the same argument gets rehashed over and over — but I am talking about arch pedagogy’s need to deeply connect to to radical politics and social justice and the pedagogy that would emerge from it (This is getting strangely long-winded, so I will try to summarize in another thread) (Actually, I may just have to keep on going for now and summarize later) tldr: arch pedagogy logic is real estate logic Context: I’ve been down at #OccupyCityHall / #abolitionplaza for a few days. It feels growing, shining, caring, safe, funny, excited, calm. I remember being at Occupy Wall Street during grad school days. No exaggeration - my understanding of space permanently changed afterwards A friend - Demitra K - and I, after going to Zuccotti, would go into the @ColumbiaGSAPP studios and tried to tell our friends that going there was so much more important to our architectural education than a studio. We’d coax friends to come Now I see: the societies that we can envision though OWS and occupy city hall are and have to be abolitionist futures, transformative justice futures, one in which our understanding of space needs to be DEEPLY connected to space, social relations, community care, repair In a carceral society, our understandings of space are deeply connected to imprisonment, and also property and boundary. How has the PIC wormed its way into our architectural imaginations? How has white supremacy and fear of the Other fundamentally structured space? At zuccotti, people mostly slept in enclosed tents; at abolition plaza everyone sleeps outside, next to each other. the abolitionist chant is that we keep us safe. Is this just a coincidence, that the Black-led abolitionist occupation is about sharing space next to each other while the oft white-dominated Occupy was about having enclosed, personal territories? IN ANY case, back to pedagogy. If we understand and see what space can ACTUALLY finally be about, then pedagogy needs to shift - from commodity pedagogy to transformative justice pedagogy What would a transformative justice spatial pedagogy look like day to day, in its practice, not in theory? Some thoughts: (caveat: I am still learning and I imagine that many people are probably doing this Work already. I can see how much more I can learn and am excited for it) 1. No final reviews. architectural review culture is real estate product culture. Communal collaboration culture would like discussing, listening, laughing, exploring. https://twitter.com/dantaeyoung/status/1277849313616502784
At this school, the anticapitalist, the antiracist, decolonialist, abolitionist, transformative justice school of my dreams, our dreams, design projects would not result in a jury or a critic. Instead, you would have a group that you’re working with, and the end of the project ..
When you finish a project you should feel like you collaborated or facilitated an great time working on a hard project with people. Reviews being performances is deeply deeply problematic, the more we think about it. 2. No fucking grades. Not only do grades get in the way of learning, GRADING CULTURE IS COP CULTURE https://twitter.com/dantaeyoung/status/1272275976454537216
It is absolutely wild and unjust that in many/most schools, you can be *expelled* for having bad grades. Imagine that you were on a hike on a mountain with a group. The group says: if you fall behind, we will kick you out of our group and leave you behind. Is this a good group? https://twitter.com/av_rose_ev/status/1271978534001471490
In the grad students I’ve had in the past 6 years of teaching, SO Amuch of my teaching has been about undoing harm and trauma around grades so that we can actually LEARN and explore as a group, not as a coercive student-teacher power dynamic At least, that’s what my own teaching has _attempted_, about pushing against grading culture within an already toxic environment of high pressure architecture Ivy League grad school. (This isn’t a subtweet of GSAPP specifically, which at least has pass fail and a reportedly more thoughtful studio culture compared to other organizations, but an indictment of something endemic across Architectural Discourse and capA architectural pedagogy) 3. Spatial designs aren’t visual ones. Aesthetics and vision are de-emphasized. Architectural image culture is real estate commodity culture. 4. Projects aren’t expected to be “new” and “original”, nor are they expected to be historical. Architectural projects aren’t compared between each other, or at least done so to avoid commodity culture. Architectural newness culture is commodity branding culture. 5. Architecture teachers (if they exist) have roles based on the ideal ways that space is collectively altered: facilitator-trainers (collaboration), engineers (building &planning), movement organizers (supporting & maintaining), ‘play’ers (joy, pleasure, connection) 6. Group classes (if they exist) are structured like collective research practices, specifically so that each person’s work benefits and enriches everyone else’s https://twitter.com/dantaeyoung/status/1272396060623765504
oriented in the same direction, like a school of fish, trying to find something together. oriented outwards, as if we are exploring a city of thought and agree to meet back in a few hours, with photos and notes of things we’ve discovered. Show this thread
(And I actually have specifc actionable ideas on how to structure a class like this, using Zoom and collaboration tools for the fall semester, and am planning my classes this way. Happy to share more) The Jigsaw learning technique, developed as a racial desegregation learning practice in 1971 in the US, or @niloufar_s’s lab’s idea of a Hive collective formation process http://niloufar.org/publications/2018/HIVE_CSCW2018.pdf are inspiring me lately for ways to think about this kind of pedagogy and play 7. (should be #1 but I had thought it was too obvious) The pedagogy curriculum is grounded in reading anti-racist, decolonialist, abolitionist thought, especially by Black feminist writers, being able to deeply SEE spaces of a deeply problematic history and a yearned-for future every thought I read and encounter and learn from is personally and slowly blowing my mind, and I catch these really powerful glimpses of what that abolitionist future could be 8. Spatial projects are understood to be social, financial, racial, about gender, race, class, education, access, oppression, bias. Where is the STS (Science and Technology Studies) of architecture? (Is geography studies like this? is there a geography “design” studies?) 9. Spatial projects begin the conversation around MAINTENANCE, not construction. I mean: spaces are thought of as maintained ecologies and gardens, not as an environment that is “built”. @stewartbrand: “A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start” Thinking about the @The_Maintainers, @shannonmattern on maintenance and care (https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care/?cn-reloaded=1), Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s work, and @adriennemaree’s Emergent Strategy, connecting movement work to space https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care/ This is, of course, often feminized labor or termed ‘domestic labor’ and implied to be undesirable; this would be feminist antipatriarchical pedagogy, classes or reading groups would discuss how spatial discourse & pedagogy has been deeply distorted and limited by the patriarchy 10. At this school, conversations would fundamentally involve talking about space, exclusivity, access. How a space can aesthetically transmit hostility or exclusivity that align and PERFORM with racism and classism https://twitter.com/autotheoryqueen/status/1273283366079561728
The gender binary is part of the carceral continuum from the bathroom — where trans & non binary people are policed, attacked and arrested — to the prison. Trans liberation is an abolitionist affair.
Or how binary-gendered bathrooms are a spatial layout that actively construct and reinforce a gender binary, as @QSAPP_ and @QSPACEarch and @melanieh0ff have been thinking about https://twitter.com/autotheoryqueen/status/1273283366079561728
The gender binary is part of the carceral continuum from the bathroom — where trans & non binary people are policed, attacked and arrested — to the prison. Trans liberation is an abolitionist affair.
11. Oh and this should be #2, also too obvious I forgot: architectural pedagogy would be explicitly grounded in studies and histories of spatial inequality, redlining, displacement, and systematic racism. (Not once in my time in M. Arch school did I learn about Seneca Village!) Okay. And because I have to go to bed, I will end this list (even though there’s so much more) with my dream of a transformative abolitionist school: The dream school isn’t a school. An abolitionist society doesn’t need cops for us to be safe OR schools for us to learn. As bell hooks & Ivan Illich & Paulo Freire write: we can have deschooled society and liberatory & transgressive learning. we keep us safe / we teach each other The dream school is a society, a collective — thnking of @melanieh0ff’s heartful, touching Code Societies at @sfpc https://sfpc.io/codesocieties2020/
SFPC | Code Societies Winter 2020 The School for Poetic Computation (SFPC), based in NYC, is a hybrid of school, artist residency and research group where students develop a deep curiosity of what it means to work poetically in…
This transformative architectural “school” or learning society would be about *taking care of a space together.* Imagine this: The learning collective is also a community center. We collectively run programs and maintain/change the building. We learn and discuss how to maintain, update, create community programs. How do we change the space accordingly? We discuss, listen, argue, laugh. We think about social, political, ecological impact. We renovate the building, or try new technologies if they help us serve others. In this learning community, learning society, we learn about space by… making it. Shaping it. Creating it. Thinking about finances, space, accessibility, budget, anti-racism, decision-making process, transformative conflict resolution, harm repair. And we have fun doing so! Perhaps this long thread is another way to say: I have been so honored and lucky to have been part of starting and maintaining and GROWing the communal and cooperative spaces of @primeproduce and Soft Surplus, and am grateful for my collaborators in our wild adventures There are soo many collaborators that I feel like my heart sinks at the prospect of leaving someone out, so I almost do not want to say further and stop speaking for these projects with my voice. I talked a little bit about this here with @willak: https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/designer-architect-teacher-and-learner-dan-taeyoung-on-growing-a-cooperative-like-youd-grow-a-garden/
On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden Dan Taeyoung discusses building trust within cooperative spaces, developing open-ended systems, and un-learning hierarchical ways of operating.
But want to shoutout my initial collaborators in @primeproduce, Jerone Hsu & @mr_tumnus, and Soft Surplus, @melanieh0ff & @_newcubes_ all whom I have laughed and debated and imagined with; whom I have also made mistakes to, disappointed, in my own neverending process of learning. Starting and growing two spaces and collectives has deeply shifted and structured my understanding about space and architecture and community in powerful, fundamental ways that my schooling did not and was deeply incapable of. It’s from this context and experience that I (stay up incredibly late and) articulate this vision of a transformative architecture school.. that is anti-racist, that actively works towards repair, and works to abolish the police and jails in our minds, because it GROWS. spatial culture can be about societal care, about repair, about calling in, about invitation. We can see space as something we want to grow, garden, tend, care for, the way we do with our neighbors and strangers. Okay, to conclude. architecture culture and pedagogy can be real estate market culture OR spatial culture can be communal culture, play culture, abolition culture, transformative culture. Which one do we want for our communities? In our neighborhoods? In our imaginations? FINALLY: In terms of starting tomorrow, the statement that @bsa_gsapp has written to GSAPP is crucial. I’m vowing to find ways that I can support these in my role as (adjunct) faculty, integrating these thoughts deeply into my teaching. https://twitter.com/a_l_hu/status/1276639014435590145
The Black Student Alliance at Columbia GSAPP (BSA+GSAPP) has written a powerful statement to the Columbia GSAPP Dean and Administration. The statement is titled, “On the Futility of Listening.” Please read it and sign your name in support! https://onthefutilityoflistening.cargo.site/
And this powerful statement by the Black faculty of @ColumbiaGSAPP that rightly and justly calls for an examination of anti-Black racism and white supremacy within all modes of it at GSAPP: https://twitter.com/jgmoore/status/1277965117930352640
UNLEARNING WHITENESS A Statement from the Black Faculty of @Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation https://unlearningwhiteness.cargo.site
Everything I have said above is NOT NEW either! It has already been thought of. The barriers to us approaching this kind of transformative school isn’t because we haven’t thought of it yet. It’s the lack of willingness to actively engage in this work together. [image (**denotes highlighted passage**): “of unlearning white supremacy. Fifty years ago there were radical actions undertaken by GSAPP students in architecture and planning inspired by the Black Power and Civil Rights movement. **One of those trailblazers, educator/alumni/colleague Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton has narrated in When Ivory Towers were Black how she and classmates forged institutional change, brought Black and Latinx students into the school's disciplines, and initiated community-based design and planning studios that worked with Harlem residents and organizations. And yet by the 1980s those radical pedagogies and curricular changes disappeared within GSAPP as the whiteness of the school's disciplines was reconstituted into new versions of old racist paradigms, discourses, and practices.** It is our belief that unless white supremacy is first, recognized and second, dismantled within this institution, then the goals professed and desired by many of the GSAPP community to eradicate anti-black”] The real #1 in my list is fundamental - a school should be centered around BIPOC & esp. Black and Indigenous faculty and students, and an understanding of the structural forces & racisms that make schools predominantly white in faculty, and white and East Asian in student makeup”]]> unschooling 2020 dantaeyoung teaching architecture art design pedagogy learning howwlearn howweteach education highered highereducation patriarchy decolonization antiracism transformativejustice socialjustice bellhooks canon fredscharmen abolitionism prisonabolition collectivism deschooling conviviality ivanillich occupywallstreet ows race gender ethnicity sexuality stewartbrand sfpc schoolforpoeticcomputing feminism exclusivity grades grading inclusivity genderbinary shannonmattern maintenance care caring society adriennemareebrown carceralcapitalism capitalism competition liberation teachingtotransgress primproduce jeronehsu spacialculture culture listening alhu justingarrettmoore austinwadesmith christopherchavez willaköerner niloufarsalehi themaintainers akilahrichards schools schooling schooliness community communities leannebetasamosakesimpson markets anticapitalism melaniehoff inclusion chegossett lcproject openstudioproject tcsnmy sfsh howwelearn schoolforpoeticcomputation paulofreire land-baseded https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c65f35764f8b/ After Authenticity 2018-04-08T08:11:05+00:00 http://subpixel.space/entries/after-authenticity/ robertogreco tobyshorin 2018 authenticity culture anthropology hispters sellouts sellingout commercialism kanyewest yeezy yeezysupply consumerism commercialization commodification personalbranding branding capitalism shepardfairey obeygiant tourism sarahperry identity critique ethics mainstream rjaymagill popculture aesthetics commentary conformism scale scalability venkateshrao premiummediocre brooklyn airbnb wework local handmade artisinal economics toms redwings davidmuggleton josephpine jamesgilmore exclusivity denayago systems sytemsofmeaning meaning commodities k-hole https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8f3a916f8060/ Knowledge sharing: The solution to hunger, disease and bad art — Medium 2015-03-16T20:59:52+00:00 https://medium.com/@maggieshafer/knowledge-sharing-the-solution-to-hunger-disease-and-bad-art-b6c089243c92 robertogreco maggieshafer clivethompson davidrunkles alexdewaal sudan research access accessibility inclusivity exclusivity information knowledge libraries internet web sharing silos penicillin ernestduchesne alexanderfleming inclusion https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b7e2a56516ef/ The Virtues of Promiscuity — CODE | WORDS: Technology and Theory in the Museum — Medium 2014-07-31T17:30:05+00:00 https://medium.com/code-words-technology-and-theory-in-the-museum/the-virtues-of-promiscuity-cb89342ca038 robertogreco“Digital resources should be set free to form commons — a cultural quarry where users across the world can seek out and find building blaocks for their own personal learning.” The more we sow these seeds of culture and the more effective we are at seeing those seeds take root, the more likely museums are to see cultural ideas persevere in the constantly-changing world. "Promiscuity is one way to demolish the perception of exclusivity that has dogged museums for longer than I’ve been around. I realize that this virtue is by far the most painful, because it would force us as memory institutions to lay bare lots of things of things we’d rather not have to deal with: legacies of imperialism and colonialism, tensions between indigenous peoples and more recent arrivals. The history of the relations between Native Americans and museums is not the most cordial, at least in part because the perception that some museums are probably hiding things they don’t want tribes to know about is almost impossible to counter. Promiscuity offers a way to end that particular debate. The “global village” the Internet has created is real, and now it is possible for a museum of any size to have global reach, provided they have anything to share. As Michael Edson pointed out in his introduction to Sharing is Caring, 34% of humanity is now reachable online. That’s 2.4 billion people who might be interested in your content. One of the most interesting and infuriating changes in attitude that the Web has wrought is the expectation of finding everything. Not being visible online now is the equivalent of not existing." … "Creating digital analogues of our existing museums is a straitjacket that will not serve us well going forward. Making a virtual museum (in addition to sounding hopelessly 90s), regardless of the technology underlying it, fails to take into account the reality of how people consume digital content. They don’t go to museum websites. Jon Voss of HistoryPin made the statement that you have to meet people where they are, not where you wish they were. Museum websites, the traditional place for museums’ online presence, are not those places, so plowing resources into making bigger, swankier ones is a waste of resources that might be deployed in ways that actually reach a global audience." … "Merete Sanderhoff lists three problems this inability to be promiscuous creates: 1. By putting up impediments museums are pushing users away from authoritative sources of information. 2. We are missing out on the the opportunity to become hubs for people. The social gravity that museums could generate is largely unrealized. 3. 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