Join us in
September 2025!
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Our inaugural academic year began in September 2022 with a cohort of 26 students that participated in seminars led by our teaching Ensemble, which were live-streamed across the earth from London’s October Gallery.
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Having now entered our third year with increased student numbers, NSotA’s experimental curriculum has continued to flex around intensively-supervised research projects addressing the concerns of social and ecological crisis. Our teaching base is now the fully-accessible Art Workers’ Guild in Bloomsbury. We have also partnered with the Haywood Gallery to continue the work of its Dear Earth group show of Summer 2023, which explored artistic responses to the climate emergency.
The next iteration of the NSotA Diploma in Environmental Humanities for the 2025-26 academic year will be built upon a collaboration with the More Than Human Life (MOTH) project founded by scholar-advocates from NYU Law.
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Taught between London and New York, it will feature a diverse programme of weekly seminars and small-group critical-creative seam classes. These will be complemented by individually and collectively supervised research projects, and the possibility of international fieldwork alongside communities under ecological stress.
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Planning is currently underway and full details will be available by mid-January, at which point we would be pleased to receive applications for entry in September. In the meantime, we continue to welcome enquiries from people of all ages, experiences and backgrounds, who might wish to join us both in-place and on-line.
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Full-Fee Scholarships
The New School of the Anthropocene offers free places for its one-year diploma to English-speaking refugees now living in the UK, who've had their current university education interrupted by the wars in Palestine, Sudan, Ukraine, Yemen and elsewhere. This scheme is a collaboration with the Compass Project at Birkbeck College, Counterpoints Arts and Revoke.
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In September 2024 it was extended to care-experienced people over the age of 18, and to those enduring custodial sentences as a consequence of the criminalisation of protests against the climate emergency.
For more details, please write to convenor@nsota.info or enter your details into the Contact page.
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Please note: scholarships are only offered to those who wish to study at NSotA. We do not subsidise wealthy market-state educational bureaucracies!
Art Critique Experiment
The New School of the Anthropocene is an experiment in counter-nihilism. It is aresponse to the inability and unwillingness of the mainstream university to engage with the condition of social crisis and ecological ruin that characterises the 21st Century.
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The New School offers a radical alternative to the monetisation, marketisation and banalisation of higher education. We are concerned with the exploration of ideas and the principle of intellectual curiosity, rather than preparing people to reproduce the business civilisation.
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Valuing experimentation through mining the critical-creative seam, we have shaped an interdisciplinary ethos and a non-hierarchical gathering of academics and students forged in conviviality and trust: the means of addressing the accelerating polycrisis of our era.
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Agnes Denes standing amid her 1982 public work, “Wheatfield — A Confrontation,” in NYC. (Photo: John McGrall)
NSotA Statement on the War in Palestine
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NSotA Symposium
Thinking through making, regenerating organism earth
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The NSotA Symposium pairs leading cultural figures from neighbouring fields with the intention of allowing free-ranging conversation, which is loosely tied into the New School's wider educational enquiry.
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Lorna Hackett and Michael Mansfield
Imagining the impossible
Katie Holden and Thrity Vakil
Scales of the human: the macro via the micro
Franc Roddam and Alan Yentob
Education as play and restoring social ambition
Paul Mason and Fintan O'Toole
University as social, not transactional, project
Carolyn Steel and Mark Nelson
Regenerating organism earth
Marina Warner and Rowan Williams
Humane Education and the Democratic Project
'It would be a mistake to believe that the pandemic is a crisis that will end, instead of the perfect warning for what is coming, what I call the new climatic regime. It appears that all the resources of science, humanities and the arts will have to be mobilised once again to shift attention to our shared terrestrial condition.'
Bruno Latour, The Guardian (2021)