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In a response to the education crisis, the American-Scandinavian John Hopkins calls for a cultural shift towards alternative pedagogies. His pedagogy, close to that of Paolo Freire, is based on a combination of face-to-face and networked communication, keeping up a "flow of energies from node to node." Hopkins, who calls himself an "autonomous teaching agent," has roamed between Northern European universities and new-media initiatives and currently teaches in Boulder, Colorado. His spiritual-scientific worldview might not match mine, but he is certainly my favorite when it comes to a radical education approach. Hopkins prefers the person-to-person as a "tactical" expression of networking, avoiding "centralized media and PR-related activities wherever possible." Hopkins' "neoscenes" networks are "a vehicle for learning, creating and sharing that does not seek stasis, spectacle and speed."
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-- Geert Lovink, My First Recession: Critical Internet Culture in Transition
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the expand event grew out of a two semester hopkins / neoscenes course at the Media Lab of the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland. the course, netculture included an enthusiastic crew of MA students. the core coordinator, facilitator, and all 'round network-queen, Mari Keski-Korsu, along with the rest of the expand crew facilitated a 6-hour live/online happening that took over the hip (and smoke-free!) Meteori Cafe in the Lasipalatsi in central Helsinki for the evening of 25 May 2001. Kudos: photos courtesy of Alexander Budde; a big thank you! to Tapio Mäkelä for welcoming us to Meteori; tech support at Meteori by Mika Raunio; etc etc...
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