> LEARNING SITE:

The Learning Site focuses on the local conditions in which its art practice is located. This entails a critical examination of the material resources and economies available within specific situations. Each situation may entail examination of economic and environmental factors, but also labor rights, property rights and the production and distribution of knowledge, which are investigated in tandem to produce a variety of different critical perspectives.

> NEWS:

Learning Site, Copenhagen are pleased to announce a public lecture by Owen Hatherley (author of Militant Modernism and A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain among many other pieces) at Learning Site, on Tuesday 1st May at 19.00.

In recent years Danish politicians have demonstrated a commitment to copying pasting many British policies into the Danish context, it is therefore interesting to hear from a leading critic of UK policies on architecture and urbanism of the postmodern era.

In Owen's words: "This talk will try and discuss the fate of urbanism and architecture in the UK in the desolate new world of savage public-sector cuts, when government funds are withdrawn and the Welfare State abdicates. I explore the urban consequences of what Conservatives privately call the “progressive nonsense” of the Big Society and “the localism agenda,” the putative replacement of the state with charity and voluntarism; and the completion of the last great Blairite schemes, from London’s Shard to the site of the 2012 Olympics. The possible effects of the new protest movements will also be briefly discussed"


Learning Site are working on "Objects for Economy" for Reykjavík Arts Festival. More info at: independentpeople.is


Audible Dwelling, Learning Book #004 is out.
See more at Half Letter Press

Reconstruction of Audible Dwelling is under the way in Malmö, Sweden

 .
Learning Learning, Creative Time Summit, N.Y. - now as text

Pod #002, Parasite Heating Unit at HKW, Berlin 
- and the harbor of Copenhagen, 2011







> THINGS:

Assorted Things | Some Drawings | Learning Books | Learning Posters


> ABOUT:

Learning Site (Rikke Luther, Copenhagen/Berlin and Cecilia Wendt, Malmö, who were previously co-founders of N55 (download N55 BOOK)) was formed in 2004. Learning Site is a platform for exchange and dialogue between people from different disciplines, practices and backgrounds who have a common interest in learning. Learning Site projects learn from, and respond to, the dynamics of local cultures, environments, resources and economies.

Learning Site often works in collaboration with other persons. Collaborators from different backgrounds reflect the different local conditions in which Learning Site's projects are enacted. Early projects were made in co-operation with Julio Castro (co-founder of Tercerunquinto, Mexico City), Nance Klehm (spontaneousvegetation/ salvationjane, Chicago) and Brett Bloom (co-founder of Temporary Services, Chicago), but collaborators may also include non-artists, such as research scientists, sociologists, city planners, and lawyers, as well as non-governmental organisations, like Navdanya, based in New Delhi.


> History, Learning Site, Copenhagen


> Contact: learn@learningsite.info