In February, our guest speaker for School’s Out! will be Lisa Doeland. She is a philosopher and the author of a.o. Apocalypsofie. Her interests lie in ontology and waste, hauntology, dark ecology, the uncanny, capitalism and desire and apocalyptic thought. Lisa Doeland will introduce us to her view on the Anthropocene. She looks at it with a general feeling of pessimism, as a good antidote to the unfounded belief in technological solutions, so common in the architectural world and beyond.
Any professional background: Sociologists, historians, writers, and other urban thinkers. Designers, planners and architects. Activists, artists, grassroots organisations and other urban do-ers.
The Independent School for the City is a playground for all urban thinkers, do-ers and designers – based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It brings together critical and experimental ideas in the field of urban research, design, strategy and activism. Through a range of diverse activities, it offers a platform where urban professionals can meet to informally discuss the challenges facing the modern city.
The school is an initiative of Crimson Historians and Urbanists and ZUS and is rooted in their practices of combining a critical and activist approach to the city with effecting real change through architectural and planning projects. The independent school for the City is founded on a strong belief in an incremental instead of a tabula rasa approach to city planning which blurs the lines between critique and practice on the one hand, and research and policy on the other.