Already a month ago I was in Helsinki, Finland and finally now in the opportunity to write something about this one-week adventure. The reason to be there was quite simple; FRAME issued a call for proposals in the summer for young curators to discover the local art scene. Being very unfamiliar with that ‘scene’ I thought it would be a nice opportunity to use. That summer I read an article about the “middle-school”. The middle school is a pedagogical model ‘developed’ by Errki Aho that tries to erase borders on class, race and learning or other disabilities by keeping children to the age of sixteen in the same class on school. This modelhoosing a completely different approach of for example the Dutch model that tries to separate and concentrate on the given problems. The article seemed a good reason to discover the background of this, including a connected discourse in art.

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