Reading Rhythms Club: Exploring Queer Theory, Pedagogy & Mental Health | REC 3.0
Channel: Ecoversities
Date: 2023-05-02

The Reading Rhythms Club was initiated in 2020 by Carla Arcos, Juliette Douet, Senka Milutinović, Arimit Bhattacharya, Julian Crestian, and Julia Wilhelm in the Willem de Kooning Art Academy in Rotterdam as an experimental reading group that aimed to open up texts as a space for encounter and collaborative experimentation. Since 2022, each reading session has been organised by multimedia designer and researcher Senka Milutinović and cultural worker Julia Wilhelm with an invited conspirator in a different location that sets the scene and enriches the text.

We will hold an interactive, experimental reading session with excerpts that sit at the intersection of queer theory, pedagogy, and mental health. As a part of the session, we will have interactive intermissions that enrich and activate the text. This includes playing with different reading methods and an expanded understanding of what it means to read and absorb. During the reading, all tangents are encouraged and every activity done with reading becomes an act of reading itself.

This session was recorded at the Re-Imagining Education Conference 3.0, hosted by the Ecoversities Alliance and partnering organizations and communities from around the world. It is an annual online conference to radically re-imagine the future of education. In 2023 it was held from April 27th to 30th.

Learn more about the conference -  https://re-imagining.education
Learn more about the Ecoversities Alliance - https://ecoversities.org