How It Rolled at the (Un-)Learning Place at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt

I just wrapped up a fellowship with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s (Un-)Learning Place! These were five wonderful days with fantastic people from around the world challenging institutions, our assumptions, realities, etc. Many thanks to HKW and the facilitators of our track, Spaces of Theory, including diffrakt: center for theoretical periphery and raumlabor berlin! Here’s a collection of my thoughts via my Instagram account:

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Day 1 of @hkw_berlin's (Un-)Learning Place! Let's get this party started. 😎❤️ #UnlearningPlace #DasNeueAlphabet

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Fantastic first day at @hkw_berlin's the (Un-)Learning Place. In the Spaces of Theory track, HKW director Bernd Scherer shows a slide with The Great Acceleration graphs (Steffen et al, 2015) relating to the Anthropocene and asks what does this mean for cultural production? #UnlearningPlace #DasNeueAlphabet

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Day 2 of @hkw_berlin's (Un-)Learning Place: Our track, Spaces of Theory, participate in a workshop by our awesome facilitators from diffrakt: center for theoretical periphery! Enlightening conversations over great pizza. 🍕❤️ #UnlearningPlace #TheNewAlphabet #DasNeueAlphabet

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Today was the opening of the public program for @hkw_berlin's The New Alphabet! #TheNewAlphabet #DasNeueAlphabet

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Day 3 of @hkw_berlin's (Un-)Learning Place: A morning plenum of the Archiving track where we wrote comments on the backs of images of natural history museums, then a workshop with our track, Spaces of Theory, with raumlabor berlin who spoke about their amazing @floatinguniversity project, and then we studied how spaces were used at HKW. Our track has martial artists and dancers who led disruptions to get us energized on this cold Berlin day. 😊💪 #UnlearningPlace #TheNewAlphabet #DasNeueAlphabet

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Great panel for Day 2 of @hkw_berlin's opening days for The New Alphabet! The Discrete Charm of the Alphabet included Sybille Kramer, Giuseppe Longo, and Yuk Hui, moderated by Bernd Scherer and Olga von Schubert. 😍 "As a binary code, the alphabetic structure also constitutes the foundations of digitization. But what properties, what qualities of speech and writing become lost through alphabetization? What implications does alphabetization have for a linguistic logic of homogenization? Can there be a diversity in alphabetically developed technologies?" #TheNewAlphabet #DasNeueAlphabet

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Day 4 of @hkw_berlin's (Un-)Learning Place: A morning dance party by the Molecular Bodies track! 💃😎🎉 #UnlearningPlace #TheNewAlphabet #DasNeueAlphabet

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Day 4 of @hkw_berlin's (Un-)Learning Place! Best day yet, not just because of this morning's dance party. Our track, Spaces of Theory, had a cool workshop on the Dimensions of Care courtesy of Rosario Talevi, Gilly Karjevsky, Elke Krasny, and Hannah Wallenfels. Swipe to see my speed dating proposal format for Care. 😂 Also, this fantastic quote by Adam Luczak: "You can only unlearn your emotional relationship with your knowledge." Thank you, next. 🤘🙏 #UnlearningPlace #TheNewAlphabet #DasNeueAlphabet

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Fascinating lectures and panel discussion, Stop Making Sense, with Hito Steyerl, Luc Steels, Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke, on AI, machines and digital technologies, for Day 3 of @hkw_berlin's opening days of The New Alphabet. #TheNewAlphabet #DasNeueAlphabet

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Final day of @hkw_berlin's (Un-)Learning Place! Our track, Spaces of Theory, started the day with a little morning hypnosis. 🙃 #UnlearningPlace #TheNewAlphabet #DasNeueAlphabet

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Final day of @hkw_berlin's (Un-)Learning Place! Our track, Spaces of Theory, asks everyone in the program, What/How did we learn and unlearn? Someone writes, "To move in affinity with others…" ❤️ #UnlearningPlace #TheNewAlphabet #DasNeueAlphabet

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Packed house at @hkw_berlin's (Un-)Learning Place's public plenum! Powerful moment when Mahmoud Al-Shaer, a writer from Gaza who was supposed to be a participant but couldn't make it because of closed borders, reads us a poem. It's been a wonderful five days with the fellows and facilitators, and I'm looking forward to taking what I've (un)learned with me in the path ahead! 😍 #UnlearningPlace #TheNewAlphabet #DasNeueAlphabet #done #dusted #danke

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—Catherine Sarah Young

Artist for the Planet

How It Rolled at the (Un-)Learning Place at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt

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