Learning Laboratories

A research exhibition and a symposium, Learning Laboratories: Architecture, Instructional Technology, and the Social Production of Pedagogical Space Around 1970 sets out to reconstruct educational imaginaries' the past's conceptions of the future of education in an archaeological excavation of learning spaces and knowledge environments of the 1960s and 1970s. In stark contrast to the present condition of crisis in education, one defined by containment and separation, extreme economization and commodification, neoliberal managerialism and an 'outcome'- oriented fetishization of measurability the architectural programs and educational research around 1970 gave rise to a number of experimental building principles and pedagogical ideals such as the 'comprehensive school,' the 'open plan school,' and 'schools without walls.' Exhibition: BAK, Utrecht, The Netherlands (03.12.2016?05.02.2017).