Parallel School offers an open environment for self-education in the broader context of art and design. We want to bring people from different places and backgrounds together to share knowledge, connect and initiate projects, publications, meetings and workshops.
Parallel School belongs to no one.
Parallel School has no location.
Parallel School
is not teaching.
Parallel School
is learning.
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2017-10-13
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2016-10-09
Convocatoria Abierta / Call for Participation
Parallel School Cali (CO)
5 – 10 de Diciembre 2016
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2016-04-12
“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”
The lecture “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”, Said the Academy and Fed Us to the Lions. Or: Starving With a Lot of Love in Your Stomach, given by Till Wittwer in 2014 as part of the Parallel School Brno and was recently published in Bricks From the Kiln Magazine #1.
↪ You can read the Lecture online or download the PDF
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2015-12-30
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2015-11-20
Before You Think
Parallel invitation to London launch!
Sat 21 November 2015, 8pm
Lerryn’s Bar, 200 Rye Lane, London SE15 4NFJoin us for a beer, conversation and pick up a free copy of
Think Twice Before You Think.The magazine is the outcome of a year long collaboration between PS participants, Antonia Brell (Berlin), Sophie Dyer (London) and A Feral Studio (Glasgow), which began with a radical pedagogy workshop in Scotland last winter.
There will be a workshop at 6pm as part of the Antiuniversity Now festival. We’ll be discussing free schools/pedagogy projects as frontier spaces …how, and for what, is up for debate! The workshop is free but ticketed. If you can’t make it, join us for the launch at 8pm.
“A PHYSICAL EXTENT INFUSED WITH SOCIAL INTENT”
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2015-11-12
Parallel School Lausanne
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2015-08-11
Parallel School Leipzig
Parallel School Leipzig happened while the city was haunted by a heatwave. Each day we visited another part of the city by bike and built up our “parallel office”. In a backyard, under the trees, in a bar and at the lake – in search of a shady places, we stumbled across wonderful moments of community. We predicted each others futures and baked bread that we ate after swimming. We discussed at night around a campfire, and struggled to get up early. We made sculptures out of trash and re-enacted scenes from each others lives.
On the hunt for undefined knowledge, we questioned the production of information. In the course of the week, we discussed our role as designers in an environment that is reinventing itself constantly.
Thanks for a week full of inspiring moments!
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2015-07-21
Open Call for Participation Parallel School Leipzig
↪ leipzig@parallel-school.org
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2015-07-16
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2015-06-21
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2014-12-10
Workshop Journal Brno
Eventually… finally… at last… here is the journal from the Parallel School during the OFF program of the 26th International Biennal of Graphic Design 2014 in Brno, supported by Verein der Gestaltung e.V.
You can download the PDF here or order a printed copy for the production cost from blurb, epubli or lulu.
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2014-09-24
Parallel School Brno
We asked ourselves what we want education to be and exchanged different approaches on teaching design. We discussed with the curators about this year’s Biennal, their role as teachers and if students censor themselves. We got our hands dirty and painted collaboratively. We thought about appropriation and its connection to education. We visited the Villa Tugendhat and traced its history with earphones, pencils and copy machines. We reviewed the so-called importance of failing and examined possibilities to visualize thought. We compared our individual ways of seeing and explored the visual language of education. We visited the exhibition »Take a Line for a Walk« with curator Nina Paim and problematized the role and use of assignments. Finally, we held the lecture »Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish, Said the Academy and Fed Us to the Lions.«
Thanks to everyone who took part in the Parallel School as part of the OFF Program of this years Biennal of Graphic Design in Brno. There will be a documentation soon. You can find more pictures here.
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2014-09-15
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2014-08-31
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2014-06-18
Call for Participation!
Parallel School Brno (CZ)
17 – 21 September 2014
The Moravian Gallery
Parallel School aims to bring a diverse group together to explore and revel in these themes through discussion, workshops & guest lectures. In the spirit of self-education every participant contributes by sharing their interests and specialties with any possible means.
Because Parallel School is part of the OFF program of the 26th International Biennal of Graphic Design Brno 2014 we would like to reflect and discuss the given framework of “Graphic Design, Education & Schools” critically.
You are invited to exchange and create, think and make, enjoy and exhaust, in a non-hierarchical environment of learning.
Admission opens at:
12:00 CET 29th June
Places allocated on a first come basis.
mail@parallel-school.org
parallel-school.org
bienalebrno.org/en/OffProgram/ParallelSchool
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