Friday 2 August @ 4c soup-apartment
Friday night at Soup Apartment impressionistic images!
Soup apartment is a collaborative pop-up restaurant concept developed by Vida.
I had not checked my mail, which informed me of the procedure, and arrived late! Lesson: read, read, and read. I tend to not read things on the computer screen especial on websites. I just scan and look at images…as a result miss out on vital bits of information, instruction and lack understanding.
I was with friend Annette, we missed out on the collaborative-arrange-the-apartment part of the evening, sigh.
It was an agreeable evening; I did knit and have some Impressionistic images!
Comments about education from that evening:
Two young men who had attended Waldorf schooling (one from the beginning of his schooling, the other from grade 11) loved their experience at school. School for them had been a positive experience, one that they cherish. In this learning context learning grows out of experience. Learning thus never ends, it is an integral part of life and living….it is not a chore. Now that they are at varsity, they find the standard orthodox methods to education anti learning. Their experience shows them that qualifications via examinations reveal how competent the applicant is in examination writing rather than what they have learned or experienced. This opens the debate around theory, experience and application. What do qualifications actually reveal?
Another comment was that education is in dire need of reform a la Sir Kenneth Robinson. The orthodox models are based on standards from an industrial 19th century model; being out-dated and inappropriate for a postmodern global society.
Vida and talked about our projects (hers the soup apartment, mine TENC)
We discussed how space is a primary focus in both projects and for both of us had been difficult to procure. The solutions have been for Vida to use her own private space (her apartment), and for me to use public-common space. This seems to be a theme of the current Now, the occupy space movement; the right to space, sharing space, ownership of space, privacy. 
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