Who Gets to 'Know': Education and Alternative Knowledge

Join organisers from Brisbane Free University and The Resistance for a collaborative and hands-on workshop to further explore the themes addressed in An Alternative Economics.

Through facilitated speculation guided by anticapitalist methodologies you’ll imagine alternative economies of education and knowing: collaborative, relational, commoned, place-based, accountable, and oriented toward justice. You will consider what counts as knowledge, the political and economic imperatives at stake in the commodification of education, and the age-old question of who gets to ‘know’.

These ideas and possibilities will be mapped and we’ll wonder together to conceive methods for enacting these alternatives in the present. By exploring alternative visions for an education system that can better sustain us, we’ll develop equity, and collective resilience for the future.

An Alternative Economics brings together a group of Australian and international artists who each use their artmaking to explore and expand on the creation of value. Guided by the idea of the circular economy and its compelling counter-narrative to the untenable model of eternal growth, each work in this exhibition offers a provocation to make us reconsider what is ‘counted’ in our society and why.

Feature Image: Image Courtesy of Cian Sanders