The School of Collaboration and Invention (socai) is a nomadic, interdisciplinary and youth-led social practice program and knowledge exchange that invites participants to lead, curate, develop, and host public projects, performances, workshops, and events about topics that matter to young people today. The mission of socai is to facilitate spaces for young people to engage in art and design through collaboration, community engagement, radical pedagogy, material in(ter)ventions, and other site-specific activisms and media.

2021-2022 Youth Space at Athenaeum

Samirah, Katia Bliss, Sam,
Ana, Addy, Ella, and Sophia.

Youth Space at Athenaeum was the gallery’s inaugural youth-led public programming. Meeting weekly, the group explored various material and conceptual approaches to art, design, and social practice. The program culminated in a mobile community art garden behind the gallery building.

the Temporary School

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The Temporary School is a transdisciplinary collaboration between socai and Rachel Seburn of Temporary Investments. Lingering (with)in the potentialities and ruptures of the urban landscape and curious to explore and activate its liminal spaces, the multidisciplinary experiments of the Temporary School span education, social practice, art, architecture, and design.