Fall 2018, AlexandriaLab
Skills Lab: monoculture broke my heart
Course details
- Cycle
- Fall 2018, Alexandria
- Taught in
- English
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About the course
The skills lab is typically a place for experimentation and testing. It is designed to run in parallel to the core curriculum, to interact with ideas about and studies of art, culture, humanities, and political ecology.
The word skills is used in reference to the method of work. Skills can be borrowed, shared, and lent. The skills lab helps students discover their research, scholarly, and/or artistic methods of practice by trying out different components of post-colonial discourse and values.
During the core curriculum, both critical and innovative ways of thinking about global issues are introduced to the students. The skills lab is a chance to explore "practitioner to subject" relationship through the sweet scale of locality, continuity, and trans-nationality.
What does it mean to put ideas into practice? Either through making or breaking frameworks? Most importantly, what does it feel like? and what does it create as a social occurrence and an everyday contribution?
Who teaches it
Batool El-Hennawy is from Cairo, Egypt. She is currently completing her degree in Fine Arts at Helwan University. She has worked at the Cairo Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences (CILAS), as a co-fellow, pedagogical coordinator, and media lab director. She is interested in the transnational dimension of education and social justice with a particular focus on collective learning and storytelling as pedagogical forms. She will serve as a Skills Lab facilitator at CILAS Alex.
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