The journal Urbânia 5 was developed as one of the 31st Bienal’s artistic projects and features counter-hegemonic educational practices. The print edition is roughly 300 pages long and its content is organized in eight sections: Counterschools; Hidden curriculum or Through the cracks of the gates; We’re all different; Another University; Counterspaces of learning; Where is free play?; To educate is to not fit; and Institutional and extra-institutional mediation. Underlying this journal is the notion of democratic education. Democratic schools are, in general terms, those in which the students take part in the decision-making process concerning how the institution is run and where the students choose what and how to research, with the guidance and support of their teachers.



It turns out that, in relationship to democratic schools, nothing can be said ‘in general terms’. Each school that aims to be democratic is unique. These schools share certain characteristics and many of them were inspired by previously existing ones. But for the editors of Urbânia 5, there's no final form for democracy. Democracy, in order to be democracy, has to be constantly improved. The democratic educational movement includes both formal and “disobedient” educational experiences, structured as collective inventions with their own in-built mechanisms, concepts and values, toward cooperative knowledge-building.



Launching the journal during the closing week of the 31st Bienal aims to show that while it owes its existence to the Bienal, it extends far beyond the exhibition. The imagined readership is neither a generic mass nor the “art world”, but the individuals and collectives who collaborated on it and that will take part in its distribution. That does not mean that Bienal visitors will not have access to it, as it will be available during this closing week and throughout the itinerancy program for 2015. However, fundamentally, it means the journal will circulate among the indigenous schools located at Alto do Rio Negro (Amazon); that it will be on library shelves in the Field Schools of the Landless Movement (MST); that it can be used by educators working with black girls in need of fairy-tales featuring princesses that look like them, so that they can form their identities and strengthen their self-esteem; and that it will be read by the members of organized young students collectives, among other groups. The idea is that the collaborators can use the journal to exchange their experiences and learn from each other’s educational practices.



On the morning of December 6, at the Bienal’s Park Area, the editors will host a public conversation about democratic education and present the whole journal on a slide projector so that they can talk the audience through its content. Below is the front cover and table of contents.

Urbânia 5

Editor-in-chief: Graziela Kunsch

Guest co-editor on this edition: Lilian L'Abbate Kelian

Graphic design: Vitor Cesar, with Frederico Floeter and the assistance of Deborah Salles

ISSN: 1982-856X

São Paulo: Editora Pressa, 2014.

Work commissioned by the 31st Bienal, "How to (…) about things that don’t exist".



Table of contents: Urbânia 5



Editorial. Graziela Kunsch



COUNTERSCHOOLS

A Democratic Education Timeline Lilian L'Abbate Kelian

Pluralistic Learning – Learning in a Democratic World. The Journey to Personal Uniqueness. Yaacov Hecht

CIEJA Campo Limpo: a school transforming structures and directions. Helena Singer

Glimpses of an Educational Experience that Recognizes Diversity. André Gravatá

The Importance of Questioning at Escola Politeia. The Escola Politeia team

Interview with André Fernando Baniwa about the Baniwa and Coripaco Pamáali Indigenous School on Alto do Rio Negro. Ana Lucia Pontes

Field Schools. National Education Sector of the Landless Movement (MST)



HIDDEN CURRICULUM or

THROUGH THE CRACKS OF THE GATES

The Movimento Passe Livre at Schools. MPL São Paulo, Carolina Cruz (MPL Floripa) and Manolo (Tarifa Zero Salvador), with illustrations by Laura Viana and Tiago Judas

Fare Free Bus Project at the 31st Bienal. Graziela Kunsch

O MAL EDUCADO (Bad Education). The MAL EDUCADO Collective

Hidden Curriculum. Annette Krauss

Spaces of unexpected learning. Annette Krauss, Emily Pethick and Marina Vishmidt

My Story – Told by Them. Natália Lobo – Capitolina magazine

Schools without Homophobia. Maria Helena Franco, Vera Lúcia Simonetti Racy and Maria Cecília Moraes Simonetti



WE’RE ALL DIFFERENT

Poems for families of all Types, Colors and Tones! Anna Dulce, with illustrations by Aline Paes

Photographing and Recounting Types of Knowledge: education at Candomblé terreiros. Stela Guedes Caputo and Nilda Alves

Let’s Blow at Dandelions. Stela Guedes Caputo

A Myth as a Gift: Weaving Ancestral Afro-Brazilian Memories. Kiusam de Oliveira, with illustrations by Josias Marinho

Building a Racism-free Educational Space. Ana Caroline da Silva de Jesus and Whellder Guelewar

Middle Age Class. Kiko Dinucci

Clandestines. Andrea Dip

Biting Down in Silence. Andrea Dip

When Women have no Self-possession: abortion, labor, and body rights. Helena Zelic, Beatriz Trevisan, Gabriella Beira, Priscylla Piucco and Bárbara Fernandes – Capitolina magazine

How to Assist a Humanized Birth, Step-by-Step. Ana Cristina Duarte

Registering culture: the smell of the Whites and the cinema of the Indians. Carlos Fausto

Questions to Open the World. Sofia Cupertino and Ricardo Jamal + extracts from the book Cantos tikmũ’ũn para abrir o mundo (Organized by Rosângela Pereira de Tugny. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2013).



ANOTHER UNIVERSITY

On Everything We Don’t Know. Nádia Recioli

The Story of my Life: the path of a Guarani. Eliel Benites Kunumi Rendyju

Replanting Roots: The Indian that Lives in Me. Gilberto Machel

The Commons Trilogy: the last three editions of the UFMG Winter Festival

Sensible Territories: first steps at the Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia. Eloisa Domenici, Augustin de Tugny and Rosângela Pereira de Tugny

Eye choices. Gabriel Menotti

Wages for Students. Estudantes de Salários para Estudantes + Jakob Jakobsen and María Berríos

READ-IN: Collective Reading Manual. Read-In Group.



COUNTERSPACES OF LEARNING

Project Processes as Autonomy-building. USINA

The City we (de)Construct. Comboio



WHATEVER HAPPENED TO FREE PLAY?

Boredom in Children. Clarice Kunsch

Tree is a person, not a word! A Mother-and-child Game. Cibele Lucena and Joana Zatz Mussi



TO EDUCATE IS TO NOT FIT

Notes on a Certain Educational Leaning in a (Supposedly) Artistic Trajectory. Jorge Menna Barreto

On the Artist’s Noisy Vocation in the City: a textual dispute by four artists on the São Paulo Culture Secretariat’s Vocational Program. Carolina Nóbrega, Luiz Claudio Cândido, Pedro Felício and Tatiana Guimarães



INSTITUTIONAL AND EXTRA-INSTITUTIONAL MEDIATION

"All it takes is for the educators to question themselves". Aldo Victório Filho, Carolina Sumie Ramos, Cayo Honorato, Elaine Fontana, Graziela Kunsch, Helena Singer, Jorge Menna Barreto, José Pacheco and Lilian L'Abbate Kelian

Extra-Institutional Mediation. Cayo Honorato

Counterpublic Episodes. Diogo de Moraes

THE EDUCATIONAL MATERIALISM OF THE SÃO PAULO BIENAL (CAPITAL): Critical theory as educational practice. Carolina Oliveira, Rachel Pacheco and Thauany Freire

Untitled. A group of educators from the 31st Bienal

The Educational Questionnaire of the 31st Bienal. Paulo Delgado

How to Teach Things that Don’t Exist. Ricardo Baitz

Self-education at the 31st São Paulo Bienal. Danielle Sleiman, Dione Pozzebon, Dora Correa, Elaine Fontana, Graziela Kunsch, Júlia Lotufo, Paulo Delgado, Lilian L'Abbate Kelian, Ricardo Ramos and Thiago Gil

Art, Education, Class. Pablo Lafuente

Erring toward Censorship. Loreto Garin Guzman and Federico Zukerfeld (Etcétera…)

Subject: CENSORSHIP AT THE SÃO PAULO ART BIENAL. Mujeres Creando and others