Trojan Horse Summer School 2025

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TROJAN HORSE SUMMER SCHOOL 2025
“The Day After Amnesia”
August 4–10, 2025
Bengtsår, Finland

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Thank you to all the participants who joined this year’s summer school with lots of generosity and engagement. Thanks to Bengtsår island for welcoming us once more and to the T.H. working group that helped the week unfold with care.

During the 10 years of organising summer schools we have probably forgotten many things. This summer again we unlearned and re-learned how to be designers, facilitate collective living and pose urgent questions. Certain things remain solid every time: the curiosity for learning together and the will to become more aware bodies that foster solidarity.

We forgot old patterns and departed from the island back to the mainland with new friends, energy, and inspiration.

The Day After Amnesia was a collective experiment to leave behind the patterns and burdens of the [fossil-capitalist, colonial, extractivist] present and to try-out alternative ways to live collectively as artists, designers and architects beyond the status quo. This year’s program unfolded from a question: if you, your community, or the planet we inhabit were able to forget something in order to re-learn, what would that be? The proposal to forget certain habits, social norms or personal behaviours, was a trigger to make space for prototyping, embracing and putting in practice political and utopian speculations from our different perspectives. We believe that togetherness and mutual care are ways to collectivise and disentangle our individual struggles.

The Trojan Horse Summer School took place as a camp on Bengtsår island in southern Finland. The location, remote from ordinary life, is an inviting context to re-imagine our daily lives, rhythms and explore different approaches to unlearning as a way to resist, build resilience and envision radical futures.

The themes we addressed and explored together relate to:
#Relational social system — technological infrastructure
#Self-organization, Commons and peer-to-peer learning
#Rituals, Inhabiting practices and role-playing games