BERLIN, GERMANY.-Two weeks before this year's G-8 meeting, a wide range of projects, initiatives and protagonists from the fields of art, culture and political activism are going to gather in Berlin for "SUMMIT non- aligned initiatives in education culture." SUMMIT is a forum for questioning and changing some of the fundamental terms of the debate around education, knowledge production and information society.

Beyond the widespread lament about the crisis in education, there are numerous initiatives converging around "education." Recognizing that education is equally a platform for cultural actualization and self organization, these initiatives range from free academies and exhibitions as educational modes to ad-hoc initiatives within social, political and cultural organizations. Parallel to these developments, many additional initiatives are taking place within or at the margins of institutions that work against the grain of their official modes and expand, rather than defy, existing aims.

SUMMIT seeks to bring together various approaches from different genres and calls on these approaches to unalign themselves from the tendencies of bureaucratization and privatization of knowledge and education. The four-day event focuses on four thematic tracks: "Knowledge and Migrancy", "Self-authorization, -organization, -valorization", "Creative Practices" and "Education unrealized and ongoing".

SUMMIT features an evening program with lectures, curated dialogs and performances, a series of sessions in working groups, caucuses, workshops, drafting groups and history lessons as well as open forums for initiating proposals, highlighting practices and making theory urgent.

SUMMIT will take place May 24 to 28, 2007 at Hebbel Am Ufer (HAU), Stresemannstr. 29, 10963 Berlin, unitednationsplaza, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 14a, 10249 Berlin, and bootlab, Tucholskystrasse 6, 10117 Berlin.