I agree, @hemokosa, the Critical Engineering Manifesto is a very stimulating text. It puts forward an openness, inclusiveness and collaborativeness that is to be fêted. Too often one comes across people who seem unable to see anything outside of their own particular (peculiar) experience and are content to confine their activities within their own silo … seldom does one meet people who are willing and/or able to recognise any merit in what others are doing in other silos/disciplines/subjects.
I love the sound of what the Tama Reversible Art University have done in terms of upsetting the normal curriculum-led teacher <> student relationship … it appears to go one step beyond the UK-fashionable ‘student-centred’ activities which always (to my mind anyway) seems to limit the student-centredness very firmly by the convention and precident of existing curriculum practice.
When you say that “the roles of the faculty and the students are reversible, that is, equivalent”, do the staff and students act as equals? Do they work together and critique each other’s work? And how (if I may refer to the ‘elephant in the room’) are assessment and accreditation handled?