Living Commons is a not-for-profit socially engaged arts organisation in Ireland that was established in order to found and maintain co-operative, democratic, working and learning schemes for people in precarious living situations through creative practices and community building.
Their Radical Institute is a Cork-based, transnational initiative that explores how the arts and cultural practice can promote and sustain radical social and ecological change. They offer collective mentoring and training programmes drawing from radical thought and praxis within art, architecture and community building. They fill the current gaps between academic critical thinking, grassroots activism and art by operating outside conventional institutional logics according to the culture of care, and by cultivating multiple ways of knowing, learning and creating.
They are also working on Paideia, an initiative where artists, mentors, and young people from diverse fields are involved in ongoing programmes and projects that work towards self-organisation processes and strategies through mentoring and peer-to-peer learning. The project has ongoing collaborative programmes with Eszter Nemethi’s Magical School, Steven Grainger’s New School, and the Radical Library.
http://www.thelivingcommons.com
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