Event in english

participants: Nadira Husain, Ahmet Öğüt, Collective Ciudad Abierta / Open City: Victoria Jolly Mujica, Sebastian de Larraechea, Javier Correa.

This discussion brings together artists and educators who have developed counter-pedagogical models at the intersection of art, education, and community. 

Ahmet Öğüt is the initiator of the Silent University, a knowledge exchange platform led by migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. Nadira Husain is an artist and mentor at the *foundationClass, which supports artists with refugee and migrant backgrounds. Ciudad Abierta is a pedagogical experiment where architecture, poetry, and communal life have been woven together. 

Сollectively, we reflect on why pedagogy must be rethought and radicalised today, and how artistic tools can act as mediators in this process. The conversation explores how alternative infrastructures of education emerge inside and outside existing institutions, how communities create their own forms of collective learning, and what role artists can play in expanding the boundaries of the educational process. 

Ahmet Öğüt (born 1981 in Diyarbakır, Turkey; based in Amsterdam) is an artist and initiator of the Silent University, a knowledge exchange platform led by migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. Öğüt has presented exhibitions at Kunstverein Dresden, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Chisenhale Gallery, and Van Abbemuseum, and co-represented Turkey at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). 

Nadira Husain (born 1980 in Paris; places of belonging – Berlin, Paris, and Hyderabad) is an artist and a lecturer and a mentor at the *foundationClass at the Berlin-Weissensee Art Academy since 2017. She is regularly involved in self-organized collective initiatives and projects that are grounded in anti-racist and intersectional ethos in the field of art. Husain has presented exhibitions at Kunstverein Bielefeld, PSM Gallery Berlin, Art Basel 2025.  

Ciudad Abierta (Open City) was founded in 1970 near Valparaíso, Chile, by architects, poets, and artists connected to the School of Architecture and Design of university in Valparaíso. Conceived as both a community and a pedagogical experiment, Open City is built through collective acts of design, construction, and living, intertwining architecture, education, and everyday life. Over more than five decades, it has become a unique model of radical pedagogy and communal practice. 

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