by Valeria Rocca
“The School of Barter", as we define the Trade School Milan, is a school where the slogan is to share knowledge to make education accessible to all. The distinctive elements of this reality is the duplicity of the figure teacher / student, who now is teaching, tomorrow may be a student, and to the opposite, the timing, that is to say that classes are limited in time and the proposal of a different economic paradigm, that of barter on a small scale. You do not pay, but you exchange something: an object, an idea, an experience. Easy, isn’t it? The project was born in New York in 2010 and has spread in many world cities, including Milan. In 2011, three guys that have in common, besides enterprise, a job in the world of design, have created the first edition of the Italian Trade School.
They are Danila Pelicans, product designer, Schimd Serena, interior designer and Alessandro Contini , interaction designer. After the first edition of the project, Elèna Beatriz, from Olavarria, joint the team. She is a student designer and a project manager. Following the success, in May, just concluded, there was the II edition of the Milan Trade School.
The premises of a former tailor shop, guests of the agency ACCURAT / 3, was born a co-working space in which, for 3 weeks, have followed all kinds of lessons. Themes are varied: from writing, the Japanese sewing, electronic music, to continue with the vegan food, yoga and much more. In short, a babel of appointments.
To know how it went, we contacted the founders of the Milan Trade School, where we asked some questions.
">First, what were the news of this second edition?
«During the first edition of the Milan Trade School, we have experienced almost by accident a few lessons off-site, directly in the studios of two artists. Students are entered in the laboratories, in private spaces (usually inaccessible) of teachers and this has meant that it would create a nice atmosphere, almost intimate, all much more relaxed and at ease. This thing really loved so much to us as participants, so this year we decided to revive the initiative for two Saturdays in special classes, hosted by prominent Milanese reality in various fields artistic / cultural directly into their spaces. The first Saturday we were guests of writing lessons with Rockit themed music, the Saturday after the boys Vectorealism taught us how to design an object and cut with a laser. ››
Are you happy with the achievements?
«We are very happy with the results achieved in this second edition, we were prepared to the enthusiasm of students and teachers, who have already had swept past us, but we did not expect a participation as active and intense. The classes were filled in a few hours and word of mouth has meant that the number of people involved grew a lot.››
What's new for the future? When is a new initiative?
«The second edition has just ended and we are already working to understand how the project can evolve. For the moment we do not want to reveal anything, we know for sure that we really want to, how and where you will find out soon.››
Are you interest? Then follow them on the site where, as we have promised, we will soon be news. And if you share the values of the Trade School and are interested to open and operate, voluntarily, a home in your town, visit the American Site, click on "Trade School everywhere" and you will find all useful information. The future goal is to open new offices around the world. Find the Milan Trade School on Facebook and Twitter. Keep in touch!
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