‘Queer School of Thought’

A statement shared with the students in the beginning of the year:

“In this group we will engage with queer theory, performative actions and improvised-making processes to invent and design the Queer School of Thought’. Our school will be situated and enacted here, at Central Saint Martins . A school within a school. We will use the college as a canvas (a testing ground and an incubator for queer action), a liminal space where disciplines meet and cross over. It’s where students socialise, showcase, challenge each other and work collaboratively.

Along the way, we hope to cultivate critical and creative thinkers who can work across mediums, across scales, across discourses; those who can really embrace the social and political facets of queer spaces and the communities that inhabit them. We want to distill a set of pedagogies and methodologies, that are inherently queer but can then be applied to any design process and scenario. Thus enriching and widening the traditional skillset that a spatial practisioner possesses. In an age of great social and political unrest, of climate breakdown, we need to find transformative ways to respond to the global issues we are facing-perhaps through queer lenses?”

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