A school without walls
Study is something
we do together.
School of Instituting Otherwise is a space for learning, production and partnership in the arts, culture, media, and education. We organize syllabi, workshops, and conversations in collaboration with cultural practitioners, teachers, academics, journalists, and writers, for the fragile yet enduring practices of knowledge creation are central to memory and history-making, while truth faces relentless assault. School of IO is both a site of preservation and a platform for exchange. We treat memory, cultural production, and documentation as active tools for shaping futures, bridging past and present through study, history-making, and storytelling. Working with communities fighting for liberation, living in exile, or denied spaces of teaching under scholasticide, we activate and reinterpret histories so they continue to speak to the urgencies of our time.
01 / Why we gather
Knowledge is not a commodity.
It is a relationship.
We bring together artists, writers, educators, scholars, and cultural workers to ask difficult questions and build forms of learning grounded in shared inquiry.
Across borders and disciplines, our programmes connect historical memory, contemporary culture, and political practice—making room for experiment, refusal, and new institutional imaginaries.
02 / Study now
Current programmes
Study group · Online
Black Kings
and Pirates
An aesthetic inquiry into power, inheritance, and refusal.

Workshop
Stitching the Political
Embroidery and collective reading as slow resistance.
Discover the workshop ↗
Course offering
Before Consent, There Was the Kitchen
Food, body, home, and power as sites of memory and struggle.
Discover the course ↗Visual Culture Curriculum
How is seeing organised—and how might it be reconfigured?
A flexible curriculum of clusters, workshops, reading groups, and collective projects across images, archives, spaces, and systems.
Explore the curriculum ↗03 / Thinking with
Conversation as a
collective practice
Thinking together in the midst of constraint and struggle—holding open ways of instituting otherwise.
04 / The school is its people
Learning across
borders and generations.


Our community includes artists, educators, writers, researchers, and cultural practitioners.


