# My class was cancelled and now I want to start a school

April 11, 2023 · teaching, school-of-creative-software, community, creative-practice

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Originally published: https://mellogood.substack.com/p/my-class-was-cancelled-and-now-i

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A bunch of designers that I follow are all starting something new:

- Talia Cotton has started [Cotton Design](https://cotton.design/)
- Lynne Yun has started [Type Electives](https://www.typeelectives.com/about)
- Elizabeth Lin has started the [The art of visual design](https://www.artofvisualdesign.com/)
- Spencer Change has started a new technologist practice based on [independent research and art](https://spencerchang.substack.com/p/towards-flight)

It seems like everyone is bringing into the world a new way of teaching, working and researching that suits their needs and world view. And I want to do the same. My upcoming course at Cooper Union, [p5.js for Visual Designers](http://coopertype.org/event/p5.js_for_visual_designersz_sp23), was cancelled due to low enrollment so now I have the time. And I just gave a talk to students at Northeastern called [Don't Stretch My Type](https://www.romellogoodman.com/talks/dont-stretch-my-type) so I feel confident in my teaching ability.

So I think I'm going to start a school. I've been mulling this over for a few months now and have a name and structure that I think I would be happy with to start. I hope to share it with you soon and maybe start teaching before Spring ends. :)

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## Elsewhere...

### Inputs

"For me, being queer means incorporating the systems which make me addressable online as an active part of my personhood."

"I think the expressive and transformative potential of computing has been met with a poverty of imagination to see it as anything more than the latest installment in a long legacy of domestication."

- [Queer Servers and Feral Webs](https://mirror.xyz/austinwadesmith.eth/wrBCeIWNsXbseQiLBj5jR_bkMFZ03nNYs4rg0lU8X2s)

"Every person who joins a revolutionary movement must undergo this transformation into an active participant in the collective struggle."

- [Gospel: How Southerners Spread Revolution](https://tabithaarnold.substack.com/p/gospel-how-southerners-spread-revolution)

"We learn what it means to be a good cook from the same place we learn anything—we learn it from each other. We never *stop* learning from each other."

- [Who Is Good at Cooking?](https://stone-soup.ghost.io/who-is-good-at-cooking/)

"It harks back to a time when airplane travel was something of an occasion, a little bit magical. But is it not still?" (Not me missing LAX)

- [Why Look at Planes?](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/21/arts/design/plane-spotting-los-angeles.html)
- [How We Make Games at The Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/crosswords/games-digits-beta.html?smid=tw-nytgames)

### Outputs

- Links from my talk [Don't Stretch My Type](https://www.romellogoodman.com/talks/dont-stretch-my-type)
- I renamed my variable type website from xptype to [vartype](https://vartype.romellogoodman.com/)
- I replaced the main font on [romellogoodman.com](https://www.romellogoodman.com/) with a variable font version (Homepage size went from 76.1 KB to 62.7 KB)
- I archived all of the code that helps run my lessons plans!

-mello