The Classroom is My Favorite Place on Earth
A container for our worlding
Reminder: Register for this free Discovery Workshop happening tomorrow at 6pm EST to learn more about The Classroom.
Recently I found myself in conversation with the brilliant Neema Githere for an upcoming project. Our conversation felt like fertile ground and spanned across time as we explored embodied technologies and ways of working rooted in care. Something else that came up was wildness, uncertainty, immaterial communication and the classroom as a possible container for all of that. It was after this conversation that I realized The Classroom needed to be the name of the offering I had been dreaming up inside of Seeda School.
Like software, the classroom is this immaterial, bio-cultural entity shaping our relationships and behaviors beyond time. A question I often return to: what are the nutrient rich conditions for tending to our curiosity in coding, our curiosity in being, our curiosity in belonging? It feels like I’ve been asking this question since the day I was born, certainly since 2016 when I “formally” established my art practice. Over the past 7 years of inquiry and practice, there are a few components that seem essential to entering that open question: imagination, play, and people. Collectively imagining how we might want to play and build on the web feels like a generative call to respond to as we improvise toward the next break1. What are the nutrient rich conditions for tending to our curiosity in coding, our curiosity in being, our curiosity in belonging? The Classroom as a container for our worlding feels like an irresistible2 starting point.
Seeda School’s vision is to cultivate a black feminist internet and I want to invite you into The Classroom, a communal learning membership where, every month, we commit to doing just that. Through code we tend to our curiosity, imagine new worlds, and build containers of self-reflection accessible to anyone on the web with us. Join us tomorrow at 6pm EST, for The Discovery Workshop to explore your coding desires and learn more about The Classroom offering.
In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition by Fred Moten published in 2003 by University Of Minnesota Press
“As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.” ― Toni Cade Bambara, Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara published 2017 by University Press of Mississippi