Unlearning Center is an evolving organism of study groups exploring the interplay between art, the commons, and organization, and what is there to unlearn for practicing this synergy.

Key questions include: How can we build the cultural institutions we need, and we want? How can arts and culture allow us to imagine and enact the commons amidst the ongoing effects of colonialism and capitalism, including gender inequality, precarious labor, extractivism, and privatization? What and how can we unlearn these together? And how can study into action happen at our sites of practice?

Unlearning Center emphasizes unlearning, as well as embodied and artistic knowledge practices, experimenting with how such a study without “center”,  e.g  concentrated power, institutional authority, and any other oppressive forms of organization, can cultivate and sustain a culture of commoning.

Unlearning entails an active critical investigation of normative structures and practices in order to become aware, attend to, and get rid of taken-for-granted “truths” of theory and practice. Unlearning Center invites participant groups with the capacity to find and create positions in the broader cultural and social field, beyond traditional educational and cultural institutions.

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We are in the process of (re)shaping Unlearning Center to bring it fully to life. More information is available in early 2025.