School SOS

School SOS works at the intersection of Higher Education, artist, designer and spatial practitioner development programme, advocacy work and community organising. It focuses on how we can collectively make the use and experience of space fairer for everyone. To do that, it helps artists and designers find where the use of space is having a detrimental effect, through exploitation, or violence, or abuses of power, and helps form approaches in tackling these issues. We work as a collective to help artists and spatial practitioners develop and establish specific and financially viable approaches that centre on the sometimes challenging, and complex politics that affect forcibly marginalised groups. Made in partnership with arts organisations, community leaders, museums, galleries, and other public institutions, SOS is a free programme of guidance, peer networking, skills training, financial guidance, and project development for artists, spatial practitioners, and their communities. Using a set of Principles, we guide the development of uniquely co-created spatial practices that address social injustices.