Epistemic Imaginaries brings attention to creative educational initiatives and how alternative learning situations work at reinventing community and related knowledge practices. Central to the publication is emphasizing such initiatives as grounded in festivity, appreciating how they support and celebrate new ways of being together. From feasting on ideas to hosting dissident knowledges, from blending individual and collective work, along with discursive and somatic methods, to growing sustainable knowledge environments and enacting care practices, alternative learning situations are underscored as vital interventions that equate learning with joy, affection and communal flourishing.

A celebration of the critical, experimental ethos central to doing-education, with essays, reflections, conversations and documentation from a range of international contributors and contexts.

Table of Contents

• Brandon Labelle & Katia Truijen: Introduction
• Gabrielle Civil: Experiments in Joy: A Festive Trajectory
• Yim Sui Fong and the Rooftop Institute: The Contagious Effects of Artist-Led Co-Learning: Insights from Rooftop Institute’ s 12-12 Program
• Cláudio Bueno: Explode! School
• Pelin Tan: Pedagogical Alliances: Collectivity, Survival, Decolonialism
• Tabar Korka Ndiaye and Stéphane Verlet-BottVro (School of Mutants): The Assembly of African Futures
• Dele Adeyemo: Cartographic Choreographies
• Johy Forum & The Pirate Academy: Converstaion between Sveinung Unneland and Brandon Labelle
• Zahra Malkani and Shahana Rajani: Notes Towards a Karachi Ecopedagogy: Sensing the Ephemeral Rivers
• Amy Pickles (varia): Obligations of Party Poopers
• Katia Truijen: Spontaneous Structures
• Akil Skafe-Smith (RESOLVE Collective), Najia Bagi and Siegrun Salmanian (The Mosaic Rooms) have a conversation on: Solidarity’ s Hinges: Tools, Porosity and Urgent Hands
• Suman Bhagchandani: Dance Workshops as a Pedagogical Tool: Select Case Studies from India
• Nico Dockx & Laure Severac: I have some ideas to share with you… November 2021-August 2023

Softcover, published in 2025, 188 pages