Free Schools as Tools for Inclusion Tiny Toones and Arte Moris

This chapter explores intersections of the visual arts and education by analysing the development of free school and classes organised by Tiny Toones (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) and Arte Moris (Dili, Timor Leste). I argue that Tiny Toones and Arte Moris not only serve as a model for alternative schooling, but emerge as spaces for nurturing local strategies for everyday sustainability. I conceptualise the 'studying turn' as a method for reimagining the usefulness of an alternative space for a wider social ecosystem. I focus on various layers of teaching and learning practices to understand the vernacular vocabularies of the making of teachers, students, classes, and friendship-based learning methods. As such, I seek to understand the meaning of developing a free school and studying together. My research shows that Tiny Toones and Arte Moris serve as tools for inclusion to access equality in education systems. Tiny Toones creates a structure of freestyle education for children. Arte Moris serves as a free art school which develops into a medium to facilitate the sustainability of an artist community. It functions as practice, in the ethics of living together.