The Study Portfolio
A site for fugitives.
For those excluded from the commons like educators, youth, artists, and the global working class.
A way to represent.
Social, educational, aesthetic and fugitive planning as a project of recognition and survival.
A way to expose.
How school is a site of simultaneous disengagement and possibility.
A place to emerge.
“Reserves of compassion, willingness to risk, capacity for expression, engagement with culture, and accented voices” (G.H. Greer 2018).
An exemplar.
Of reciprocity in engagement and learning
An attempt.
To dissolve the artificial divide between teacher and student (professor and student).
A space.
For new eyes for young people and adults, new lenses through which to “recognize and record” (CLR James 1974) the contradictions inherent in American cultural values, norms, and beliefs.
The YPA Study Portfolio is a transmedia undercommons through which the public can experience the critical, creative possibilities that emerge from educators, youth, and the global working class when provided new ways of reading notions of difference.
For example, in our first study, What There May Be, public school teachers took one semester to observe the school and their classroom through the specific experiences of one child they know but who did not know they were being noticed. The teachers, then, built a space of learning for “their” child should they be allowed to design space as a place for children as opposed to an instrument of control.
The Study Portfolio borrows the pedagogy and epistemology of Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s understanding of fugitive study because we want to see what happens when people regulated are deregulated.
Check out our first study, What There May Be. Other studies are to come, and we’re always interested in suggestions from the public.
Let’s Connect if you have ideas.