Among the lecturers sponsored by AREA have been curator Nato Thompson (November 2005); artist and food activist Claire Pentecost (May 2006); cybernetics researcher and open-source activist Xabier Barandiaran (June 2006); anti-poverty activist and community land trust organizer James Tracy (October 2006); a discussion about the theory of Participatory Economics with Michael Albert (November 2007); Welcome Event for the Alternative Press Centre (October 2008). The events have had audiences of between 30-80 people.
An intensive event series was held in 2007 on the theme of How We Learn. All events were held at the Hyde Park Art Center in Summer 2007 unless otherwise noted:
3/29/07: How We Schedule @ A+D Gallery/Columbia College Chicago as part of the Pass It On: DIY art show.w/ Gapersblock.com, New World Resource Center, Optionalevents, and InCubate Chicago.
5/5/07: How We Coordinate pt.1 @ Version Fest
w/ Contra Tiempo, Journal of Ordinary Thought, Lumpen, Skeleton News, and more.
Sunday 7.22
Opening Event: How We Make a Pedagogical Factory (3-5pm)
w/ Various Participants
Saturday 7.28
How We Learn: Building an Educated City (1-3pm)
w/ Mess Hall, Platypus, Free Geek, Chicagoland/Calumet Underground Railroad Efforts, Bronzeville Historical Society, Chicago Women's Health Center, The Odyssey Project, and more.
Saturday 8.4
How We Move Workshop (11am-1pm)
w/ Meredith Haggerty and Lavie Raven
How We Make a Pedagogical Sketchbook (11am-1pm)
w/ Stockyard Institute
Wednesday 8.8
How We (and also I) Make and Tell Stories About What We Do (6-8pm)
w/ Andrew Gryf Paterson (Visiting Artist from Finland/Scotland)
Saturday 8.1
How We Peoples Make a People's Atlas of Chicago (12-3pm)
w/ Daniel Tucker and Dave Pabellon AKA “The Speculators” from AREA Chicago
Wednesday 8.15
How We Grow Self-Education and Urban Farming Gathering (6-8pm)
w/ Scott Berzofsky, Dane Nester and Nicholas Wisniewski (Visiting Artists from Baltimore)
Saturday 8.18
How We Sound Audio Workshop (11am-1pm)
w/ Jesse Seay
How We Listen (1-3pm)
w/ Lou Mallozzi and Christina Kubisch (Visiting Artist from Germany)
Wednesday 8.22
How We Use Vacant Spaces (6-8pm)
Screening of Daniel Kunle and Holger Lauinger's Film
Not Anymore / Not Yet
Saturday 8.25
How We Make Educational Posters (11am-1pm)
w/ Watie White
How We Teach (1-3pm)
w/ Various Artists, Activists and Educators
Saturday 9.1
How We Think Walking Tour related to John Dewey history in Hyde Park (Meet outside HPAC at 11am)
How We Brew/Bake/Mead Etc Cottage Expo (1pm)
at Experimental Station (6100 S. Blackstone, near the corner of 61st and Dorchester in Woodlawn/Hyde Park). w/ Material Exchange, Nance Klehm and others
Saturday 9.5
How We Celebrate People's History (6-8pm)
w/ Josh MacPhee of JustSeeds
How We Make a Pedagogical Sketchbook (6-8pm)
w/ Stockyard Institute
Saturday 9.15
How We Engage (11am-1pm)
w/ Anne Elizabeth Moore
How We Make a “Disorientation Guide” to Our University (1-3pm)
w/ Local University Activists and members of the Counter Cartography Collective
Saturday 9.22
How We use AREA Chicago as a pedagogical experiment and also move towards an independent political and cultural education network in Chicago (1-3pm)
