Course Archive

​​This is a 3-session course at Shoshin College.

​Open Source is a way of producing software that makes it possible to share code. It’s also so much more — a way of thinking about sharing knowledge, collaborating, and innovating together. This course draws on twenty-five years of adventures in open source, covering the political consequences of technical decisions, democratic and radical politics and how to draw on this history to challenge the current cultural and infrastructural dominance of big tech platforms.

​​Most people know The Lord of the Rings from the films. But that story is just the final chapter of a much larger tale. Tolkien created an entire mythology to give his world a sense of real, lived depth, filled with myths, epic wars, doomed romances, and the rise and fall of elven, dwarven, and human kingdoms.

​​This three-session course is a friendly, story-driven introduction to those deeper legends. You’ll meet characters whose choices shaped the events of the films, discover where Sauron came from, and see why the Elves feel their time in Middle-earth is ending.

​​This is a 3-session course at Shoshin College.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
(Oscar Wilde, Salome)

​The question of love is largely avoided and suspected in the contemporary political and philosophical terrain though once was one of the most significant philosophical concepts (Plato’s eros, Aristotle’s philia and Augustine’s caritas, Kierkegaard’s love for the other human being or the love for God); while for the field of psychoanalysis, love is the cure (Freud).

​Let’s dive into the essentials of personal finance to take control of your financial future. Designed for adults with little to no prior experience, this course emphasises practical application. You’ll create a personalised monthly budget, explore strategies for saving and managing debt, learn to track expenses effectively, and get introduced to the basics of investing. By the end, you’ll have actionable plans and tools to automate your finances and work towards your goals.

​Disclaimer: This course is for educational purposes only. It does not constitute financial advice. For personal recommendations, please use FCA-regulated guidance or advisers.

Welcome to the first course in a series dedicated to training people from scratch to become AI Engineers.

This is a course for learning how to work with Python, a very popular programming language and widely used in the field of web development, data science and artificial intelligence. No previous experience with programming is needed.

The course will run every Saturday for every week of September. We start at 10 am and stop at 6 pm, making the course a total of 32 hours.

​​This is a 3-session course at Shoshin College.

​This course provides a comprehensive overview of past and current research on creative thinking. The sessions will cover theories of creativity and the behavioural and neural basis of creativity. Finally, each session will provide empirically grounded suggestions on how to stimulate your own creative thinking.

The first of three sessions for this course is on Tuesday, 4 March 2025, at 6:30pm. Closest station: Haggeston, London.

​​This is a 1-day course at Shoshin College.

​A one-day beginners' workshop in both the practical skills for, and a philosophy of, computer based / interactive art using P5 and OpenProcessing.

​I have distilled this from my practice over the last 15 years. And from material I've taught everywhere from postgraduate seminars at university, to small-town, rural schools in the heart of Brazil. This course is slightly unusual in that the goal is to teach both the practical / programming technique in conjunction with a philosophy of computational / interactive art.

​Note that this 1-day, compressed version of the course is aimed at those who have at least some programming experience already. Students will be expected to be familiar with the concept of programming languages, variables, if statements, loops and arrays, objects and libraries.

​This course it taking place on Saturday, 1 March 2025. We start at 9:30pm. The day will be split into 3 sessions. Location: 133 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 7DG.

​Please come with your laptop and your headphones!

​This is a 3-session course at Shoshin College.

​This course provides an overview of the yoga discipline, integrating lessons on the core principles of the yoga philosophy, and offering gentle asana, breath work and meditation practice.

​The course will be organised into three sessions that will cover different aspects of yoga.

​Location: Elephant & Castle, London

This is a 3-session course at Shoshin College.

This course invites participants to reimagine the role of technology through the lens of Human-Centered Design. Over three sessions, we will explore how ethical principles, intersectionality, and sustainability can be integrated into how we design and build things. Drawing from frameworks like Design Justice, Plurality, and Human-Centered Design, we will explore how technology can be more inclusive and equitable, for humans and for the planet.

​This is a 3-session course at Shoshin College.

​Democracy is an extremely saturated word. Different people meant different things. Democracy in ancient Athens was completely different than today yet we use the same word to refer to both these things. Conservatives, leftists, liberals, anarchists, communists; they all talk about democracy yet they usually mean different things. Join us in a deep yet short dive into all the different theories of democracy and how each one compares to the rest.