This page presents cases where the contributors have actively participated (on different levels and roles). The examples can be clases in traditional institutions, and workshops or other types of non-institutional activities. The list will be organized by date.

This category is devised for classes, modules, workshops or other types of activities organized in the framework of a traditional academic programme within an institution. It can be assignments in art, architecture or design, as well as in other disciplinary fields, where alternative pedagogical methods were applied.

Participant: Pablo Calderón Salazar
Website/blog: https://prospectivatadeo.wordpress.com

When I was about to finish my Industrial Design (ID) studies at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in 2008, I was invited to take part in a pilot programme on design pedagogy, aimed at forming ¹⁾ young graduates on teaching and research. After a year of seminars, workshops and assisting two teachers in different classes, I was invited to teach a module of a class titled Prospectiva Tecnológica (something like technological foresight in Spanish) to ID students between 5th and 7th semester. When I received the syllabus, it was rather open, with the main goal of learning students how to understand foresight mechanisms and the role that design can play within them; I decided then to orient the module towards approaches of understanding a context (ethnography), deconstruct the logics of functioning of different technologies and critically reflect on how design interventions can have an influence in future foresight (design futures). Respectively, I deviced three main assignments:

1. study a community around the university (could be a street vendor, a shop-owner, a security guard, etc.) using cultural and design probes and, after making a map of their context, they would define opportunities for action from a design perspective.
2. instead of talking about technology as something alien to us, I wanted the students to reflect on what technology is and how does it work: in pairs, students would choose a theme (e.g. music, medicine, etc.) and device a didactic (and ideally analogue) activity to teach the rest of the group how technology worked on that field.
3. as a final assignment, groups of three students would design a future scenario for the city of Bogotá. Such scenario should reflect on a specific human right ²⁾ and propose how a design intervention might contribute to improve the status of that right in the city.

Participants: Pablo Calderón Salazar & Gert Wastyn
Website/blog: http://creativedesign.mdastudent.khlim.be (not active at the moment)

Info about CDM.

This category is devised for extra-institutional initiatives or self-standing activities, usually non-recognized by official authorities or institutions.

Participants: Michael Kaethler, Anna en Anne & Pablo Calderón Salazar
Website/blog: http://tr-aders.eu/open-school/the-school/

Info about TOS

Participants: Caro van der Hole & Pablo Calderón Salazar (as methodology coaches)
Website/blog: https://www.theschoolhasselt.eu/

Info about TS.