Each One Teach One I: Digital Pedagogies
Day and time: Friday (March 20) · 14:00–15:30
Location: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Format: Talk
Hip Hop for "Self-Defensive Mental Fitness" in Schools
Presented by: Emilie Souyri
Racism and discriminations in schools are often presented in a way that suggests students are the ones who need to be taught not to be racist or discriminate. The series of videos that are being discussed here contends that the racism and discriminations that students -and teachers alike- are faced with is too often overlooked and that they rather need tools of “self-defensive mental fitness” as Public Enemy suggested. By putting in dialog Hip Hop rap lyrics and videos with historians, sociologists and Hip Hop feminists, the videos series seeks to create a toolbox in a both engaging and scholarly way. But there are shortcomings I am well aware of. It is crucial to secure funding to be able to invite -and pay- artists to discuss those issues and look into them in a way that reflects a real dialog between academia and the culture while also taking into account the needs of teachers on the ground. Finally, in line with the “each one, to teach one” spirit that is so central to Hip Hop education, the audience will be asked to participate in further co-creating the alternative curriculum exemplified in the videos.
UNLEARN: Hip Hop as a Tool for Decolonizing Identity
Presented by: Zoe Map
UNLEARN Series is a bilingual video-podcast and live participatory project that explores how Hip Hop can function as a tool for critical pedagogy and cultural decolonization. Drawing from my experience as an Italian artist who lived sixteen years in New York and grew up immersed in Hip Hop as a space of expression and resistance, the project investigates identity, belonging, and representation across Italian and transnational contexts.
Through conversations with artists, scholars, and activists, UNLEARN invites audiences to actively engage in learning, questioning internalized stereotypes, and reflecting on systemic inequities. Each episode is accompanied by a “learning hub,” offering bibliographies, audio excerpts, and glossaries to support participatory, interdisciplinary learning.
By combining artistic practice with educational strategies, UNLEARN demonstrates how Hip Hop can foster collective empowerment, intercultural dialogue, and critical thinking. This project exemplifies the potential of Hip Hop pedagogy to transform understanding of identity, activism, and social justice, bridging lived experience with scholarly inquiry. UNLEARN positions audiences as co-creators of knowledge, encouraging a more conscious, pluralistic approach to culture, learning, and artistic practice.
25 ‘til Infinity: The Planet Rap OER Textbook
Presented by: J. Griffith Rollefson
his presentation opens dialogue around the forthcoming Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook, Planet Rap: Global Hip Hop and Postcolonial Perspectives—a central output from the ERC CIPHER project and product of the Global Hip Hop Studies and EHHSN family. This free, online resource, will ultimately feature articles from over thirty experts comprising a critical survey examining Hip Hop in all its elemental diversity, from its prehistory in African, African American, and Caribbean cultures, to its birth in the South Bronx, its regional spread and differentiation throughout the US, and its global diversification across borders and around the planet. As we will see, Planet Rap is now in draft form, featuring a set of chapters by Mark Villegas, Msia Kibona Clark, Janne Rantala, Adam Haupt, and myself. Over the next year, we will be inviting chapters from a handful of colleagues from our growing GHHS and EHHSN networks for a first edition, after which we will open the call for submissions to the textbook more broadly. Indeed, this online, open access, and in-house OER is based on a dynamic html model with a structured template developed by our partners at Berlin's Alphabees—meaning Planet Rap can be updated ad infinitum. This is how we chill from ’25 til….
