Knowledge Exchange 2nd Season

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Thursday April 28, 2011 11:08 by Bill Doran - Knowledge Exchange info at knowledgeexchange dot ie

Take part in the second season of the free public lecture series

An open collective meeting will be held this Sunday, 1st of May, at 1400 to discuss and plan a new season of free public lectures. Anyone and everyone is welcome to come and take part, whether you have an idea for a lecture, a venue or a way to connect to more people.

Knowledge is an open collective group that aims to bring education and learning to everyone. Our public spaces, parks, streets corners - in fact anywhere we can gather - should be places where we share everything we know with each other. In theory, anyone can use Wikipedia or the Public Libraries to design and follow their own curriculum BUT not everyone has the time or opportunity to do that. The more complex and abstract a field becomes, the more difficult it is to navigate and to find different perspectives on the same subject.

To help breakthrough these obstacles and open learning to everyone Knowledge proposes to run seasons of free public lectures. These short courses will be presented by volunteers with a background in and a passion for the given area. There are no barriers to taking part and the lectures will be free form, shaped as much by those who come as by the those giving them.

For the second season we're hoping to expand the repertoire of Knowledge with more lectures/talks/workshops/rambling interactions and spread it across more of Dublin city. To achieve the latter we're hoping to run pop-hedge schools, outdoor talks around the city centre, walking lectures as well as picnics and dinners.

If you have any ideas of disciplines you feel would be worthwhile for others to have the chance to know more about or new innovative ways to structure learning or you just like bouncing around thoughts please come and along and take part.

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