New Terms: Radical Education Workshops: The Democratic Table

Part of a series of participatory and theoretical sessions in the ICA studio on experimental and radical learning and pedagogy, led by members of the New Terms group.

Children learn to enact democracy by sitting down to a family meal, night after night. The collective table is a means of survival, a form of vulnerable existence, and an instantiation of community. The Democratic Table performatively stages a participatory learning experience – food preparation, eating, and conversing – to investigate how shared culinary encounters can create alternative (radical?) spaces for affective education.

Session facilitated by New Terms member Jess Adams.

This event is initiated by ICA Student Forum member Anna Kontopoulou

This event is part of the New Terms: Radical Education Workshops series on Saturday 29 November as part of Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014. The full workshop programme includes:

• 12pm: Where does arts education happen?
• 1.30pm: The Democratic Table
• 2.30pm: When is Art? & Cutting up Art Education
• 3.30pm: Human Library