School of the Alternative looks amazing, thanks for the link! Love this bit on class structure with the breakdown of “solid classes” (traditional / sequential), “liquid classes” (standalone workshops) and “gas classes” (more emergent pop-ups).
I have a couple books in my queue to learn more about the history of Black Mountain College and hope to visit the BMC museum + art center at some point.
The festival <> school hybrid sort of thing seems like a very interesting direction to explore too. I’ll keep you posted re: potential school-maker conference…DM or email if you’d like to chat more!
Relevant to ideas around better persisting and cross-pollinating knowledge for those organizing these kinds of things — this proposal from @boris looks great too: [PIG] Community Search Engines: Event & Chat Artifacts as Research Building Block