Learning from the Street

What happens when you take a school out of its building and put it on a sidewalk? When you replace lecture halls with tire stacks, canopy tents, and passing strangers? Streetschool is a roaming installation and pedagogical experiment that asks how education can be redefined through public space, storytelling, and hospitality.

First developed in 2019 and most recently activated at Sharjah Biennial 16, Streetschool invites participation by design. There are no walls, no enrollments. What you bring — a question, a story, an offering — becomes the curriculum. We’ve hosted workshops, impromptu performances, strategy meetings, drawing sessions, and shared meals. Each time, the school adapts to its city.

Streetschool is part of our larger belief that learning should be live — happening in context, with whoever’s there. It prototypes a different kind of institution: one that listens more than it speaks, that makes room instead of making rules.

On the street, fiction becomes method. And everyone becomes part of the class.