YOU’RE INVITED: Party on Friday, enrolment open ✰ ✰
You are getting this newsletter because you indicated interest in irid, or attended Toronto Theory or another of Michelle Jia / Chloe Lim’s events. Welcome.
Drumroll, please…
Course enrolment is officially open!
IT’S FINALLY HERE, the moment we’ve been waiting for: YOU can now sign up to take an irid course simply by filling out this form!
We’re so excited to showcase all three offerings we have this fall. Official course pages are live on our website now: click through each of them to understand more deeply the vision that the irid Teaching Fellows have been crafting.
Accidents on Purpose: Creative Practice in an Uncertain World
By Justin Scherer
Take this course if:
You feel compelled by the idea of using chaos as a thought partner in your work or passion projects
Or, you’re an artist or maker looking for new lenses and methods to shake up your craft
Or, you’re craving dedicated weekly time to open-endedly create alongside other curious folks
Grow Old Together: A Design Research Course for Aging Joyfully
By Ruth Silver
Take this course if:
You’ve ever wondered if it’s possible to design aging differently from the models you see around you
Or, you want to make a map of an imagined shared future with the people you want to get old with – your partner, your oldest friends, your family
Or, you want to develop a research skillset that you can use to approach life’s most intractable problems
Growing Digital Gardens: Sowing Seeds for a Mindful Practice
By Omama Mahmood and Aaryan Pashine
Take this course if:
You’ve want to create a new relationship with blogging, digital journaling, or social media that feels healthy and mindful
Or, you want to learn to apply the lens of nature stewardship to life’s most harried daily rhythms
Or, you want to find community with other people trying to create a digital knowledge practice they actually keep returning to
Enrolment closes for each course on their first day of class. Most offerings start late September – check each course’s page for details on timing!
Want to see us in person? Well…
Last call for RSVPs to our semester preview party on Friday
Great news: we’re throwing an interactive open house and kickoff party in three days to bring the community together and celebrate our inaugural semester! You’ve never seen New Stadium like this…
Bring friends, partners, coworkers, and anyone you could see yourself sitting next to in class, thinking, “Wow, this person is so cool, I wanna make stuff with them.” Dress code is “art school,” tickets are PWYC.
Get your tickets for the preview party here!
Pizza, drinks, and profound, moody installations that’ll leave you buzzing and thinking…
That’s it for today – keep it cool, and stay in school.
Love,
Michelle and Chloë
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