Epistemic Imaginaries – Learning as Festivity / Book launch at KIOSK Rotterdam 

Friday April 25th, 17:00–19:00, KIOSK, Pieter de Raadtstraat 35A, Rotterdam

In celebration of the new publication Epistemic Imaginaries – Learning as Festivity, editors Brandon LaBelle and Katía Truijen host a launch gathering at KIOSK Rotterdam, with a conversation on experimental and alternative learning situations. They will be joined by some of the contributors to the book. 

Epistemic Imaginaries brings attention to creative educational initiatives and how alternative learning situations work at reinventing community and related knowledge practices. Central to the publication is emphasizing such initiatives as grounded in festivity, appreciating how they support and celebrate new ways of being together. From feasting on ideas to hosting dissident knowledges, from blending individual and collective work, along with discursive and somatic methods, to growing sustainable knowledge environments and enacting care practices, alternative learning situations are underscored as vital interventions that equate learning with joy, affection and communal flourishing.

Comprised of essays, reflections, conversations and documentation from a range of international contributors and contexts, Epistemic Imaginaries is a celebration of the critical, experimental ethos central to doing-knowledge.

Including contributions from Dele Adeyemo, Suman Bhagchandani, Cláudio Bueno (Explode!), Gabrielle Civil, Nico Dockx and Laure Severac, Yim Sui Fong (The Rooftop Institute), Zahra Malkani and Shahana Rajani (Karachi LaJamia), Tabara Korka Ndiaye and Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro (School of Mutants), amy pickles (Varia), Akil Scafe-Smith (RESOLVE Collective) and Najia Bagi and Siegrun Salmanian (The Mosaic Rooms), Pelin Tan, Katía Truijen, Sveinung Unneland (Joy Forum) and Brandon LaBelle (The Pirate Academy).