after school (Paperback)

Paperback. Public education and its infrastructural discontents: a treatise on the state of schools featuring proposed spatial and pedagogical interventionsPublished with in otherwards, the imprint of Carnegie Mellon University.Rooted in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvaniawhere recent proposals for school closures and consolidations carry on existing processes of displacement, segregation and restructuringafter school attends to the material, political and social conditions of public educationand gestures toward the possibility of a school not yet here. Accompanying the exhibition at Carnegie Museum of Art, the book traces how infrastructures of learning are built, remembered, contested and reworked through both archival and contemporary reproductions of spatial propositions, installations, alternative playgrounds and curricular proposals. after school brings together a bevy of texts from architects, artists, educators, students and activists who reflect upon the stateand stakesof public education. Together, the contributors consider the architectural, pedagogical and representational structures that shape how knowledge is created, shared, taught or withheld. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…