The erosion of the public: from romper stomper to woof-woof

This delegate-led symposium will address the necessity and
the rich potential of research, learning and teaching outside
of formal institutions. PPI has created a non-institutional
voluntary structure for working in the public space. The
diverse membership of PPI including council workers,
academics, artist’s provokes generative, cross-sectorial and
cross-disciplinary conversations.
The Institute’s major project is the ‘Pop Up School’.
Conceptually the ‘Pop Up School’ takes a defined
geographical area working to bring to the fore what might
be considered current valued knowledge—spatially and
temporally. This knowledge resides in and is determined by
communities and is in a constant state of creation/recreation.
In the first iteration of the ‘Pop Up School,’ the geographical
focus was Footscray. Footscray is a post-industrial inner urban
suburb of Melbourne, Australia.