Designing Radical Pedagogies

The “Designing Radical Pedagogies” research cluster will investigate what a radical rethinking of education might look like at a time when change is accelerating in every aspect of global life.

Taking inspiration from a wide range of creative contemporary and historical movements, this cluster brings together the disciplines of education, art and design, and the critical humanities to creatively mobilize them for the contemporary university as a microcosm of global social, economic and environmental crises.

Specifically, we place pedagogies (as plural and diverse practices) at the center of our experimental and critical inquiry to explore ways that they have the power to create, maintain or transgress the boundaries of disciplines, knowledges, "realness and virtuality" and ways we live our lives as learners.

Highlighting both current limitations and the potential of radical pedagogies to help us “think otherwise,” we will invite three scholars to campus for seminars and workshops with the aim of designing experimental pedagogical provocations that can be activated in real-world settings.