For this episode of the podcast, my guests are Margaux Simmons, Molly Rose Kaufman and Doug Farrand. They are staff and organizers at the University of Orange, a free school of restorative urbanism located in Orange, NJ. The discussion reviews the University of Orange’s activities and its founding principles. For example, one key idea is that the city itself is the university, and that you can learn everything you need to know about US history, both the good and the bad, by walking around and engaging with Orange as a resonant locale. In addition, in keeping with the approach of popular education, the University of Orange ethos is that everybody has something to learn, and everybody has something to teach. During the conversation the guests identify how this approach is made concrete in particular programs, what it takes to run a free people’s university and lessons they have learned.
University of Orange – https://universityoforange.org/
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