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What is Going Off(Shore)?
This half-day program is designed to bring together students, educators, and scholars across Chicago to share their personal research prompts in reimagining curriculum and learning. Curriculum, etymologized as "a running, course, career" can be perceived beyond traditional formats as mutable and fluid forms of coming to know. This symposium invites all to reconsider models of learning, propose alternatives, and share their discoveries.
Off(Shore) plays with the idea of departing from stable ground; it is about shoring up explorations in the uncharted and having conversations around possible realities. It aspires to provide an open and supportive space for individuals to test out ideas and receive feedback from a variety of people.
What is the theme?
This year’s program draws inspiration from Floating Museum Project, an installation initiated by artists Faheem Majeed and Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spoffard in collaboration with architect Andrew Schachman. The forthcoming Floating Museum is designed to challenge traditional ideas of museums and blend creative place-making, activism, and exhibition design. Off(Shore) animates possible conversations occurring within the pedagogical initiatives of the Floating Museum. Learning is seen in this symposium either as a research theme or as performed by the participants engaging in a dialogic format.
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What will the conversations be?
Honestly? We do not know and this is what we are excited about! The conversation will be defined largely by the proposed prompts and the combination of people at each conversation table. This is a wonderful opportunity to think about the different ways learning can be seen, discussed, and connected. We are testing our hypothesis that a symposium can be created from generative conversations.
Were there previous versions?
This symposium riffs off the Chicago Curriculum Studies Student Symposium. You can find materials from their blog.