System AdA: Methodologies of Teaching and Learning

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The strategies to transmit and receive knowledge (and the role of art and its institutions in this process) is the working field present in ‘Methodologies of Teaching and Learning’, from the perspective that a school could be, more than a place, a series of experiences in time, where the teacher and the student change their positions, refusing any form of hierarchy or authoritarian measures.

The American John Cage is followed by the Italian Bruno Munari, the German architect Franz Schuster and the artists Joseph Beuys, Allan Kaprow or Marcel Duchamp, among others from AdA’s collection who explicitly dealt with the idea of learning as an aesthetic tool for a socially transformative purpose.

In this scenario, a process takes place in which the archive, as well as the museum, cannot be an innocent bystander, because (at least as a possibility) it has a very particular position and responsibility.

As said by the Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi, in her writings from the 1950s on the possibility of a museum-school as a model, the educational gesture requires from the beginning a set of unavoidable questions: ‘To build a museum, we should ask a number of questions, such as the Aristotelian categories: What should be taught here today?/ Who, today, do you should teach? Why do you need to teach? /How it is necessary to teach?/Where do you need to teach?’

In her eyes, the museum should learn again. Why not also the archive?