Questionism





The Quest



Ongoing project by:
Eylem Ertürk, Magdalena Hubauer, Pavel Naydenov, Katharina Spanlang, Gabriela Urrutia Reyes, Raphael Volkmer


What is Questionism?

Questionism is an initiative that creates space to explore the transformative potential of questions.

Questionism proposes to open a transdisciplinary platform (and physical space) to incubate a structure for the sharing of knowledge, peer-to-peer exchange and collaborative ‘doing’.

Breaking conventional ways of learning and questioning knowledge production, Questionism opens up a new space to embrace the transformative potentials of questions,

The Department of Questionism (School of Thought) is a proposal to establish an informal department within the academic context, an alternative space where students empower themselves by teaching, learning and doing. It offers an approach to change hierarchies and structures of decision making in the process of knowledge production and it’s sharing; and promote diversity, transdisciplinary exchange and collaboration.

Formats of the Questionism:

Questionism has proposed in previous events

  1. Questionyards

They consist of a series of encounters, experiments, performances, and interventions. They host different formats to explore the process of questioning and facilitate collective creative actions. Questionyards create spaces for interdisciplinary sharing and playing with questioning. 

The first gathering was realized as a Questionyard on March 10, 2018, with a lecture performance and two workshops offered by students of the Social Design studio. Questionyards are laboratories for interdisciplinary exchange and collaborative action implemented in the framework of Questionism.

The first try out intended to question our production of knowledge and knowledge itself and breaking conventional ideas of learning.

The elements that were considered in the workshops were:

-         Experiments lead base
-         The art of Crafting questions
-         Interdisciplinary

   2. The Quest.
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The second gathering was realized in public space within ‘Oskar nimmt Platz’ project on May 14, 2018. Following the presentation, Quest game was introduced for participation of people by answering questions with questions. The first question ‘What is public space?’ evolved into the question ….. through the perception of different people passing by within a day. 



Presentation of the „School of Questionism“ at the International Conference “Spezialisten der Entspezialisierungspecialists of Despecialization”.

University of Applied Arts, Vienna, die Angewandte