Spatial illustrations; analogue and digital Researching the way spatial design impacts social relations in models of education, Amro is exploring the impact that the seating, placement, light, sound, wall colours, and relations to in- and outside, all have on the social relations that are allowed to emerge in or are repressed from a space. She questions how such spaces – the classroom in particular – can be shaped based on egalitarian principles of radical pedagogy, capable of being response-able to the knowledge of its users. 30 walls is unpacking the underlying ideology of standardisation in schooling systems and the spatial hierarchies it creates. In a rectangular classroom, the composition of desks is oriented to face a black chalkboard, and the walls surrounding this cosmos define its physical and mental borders, all designed by architects to serve the functions of the oppressive educational system. Like all oppressive systems and entities, so must school buildings be demolished. Since demolishing schools seems to be both utopian and dystopian, 30 walls practises the act of radical imagination to challenge one element of the classroom: the wall. 30 different proposals of classroom walls are referring to the 30 students who shared the twelve year journey with Amro through her institutional education in Palestine. She borrows their imagination and visualises how they would have wanted the classroom wall to look like. The walls act as a portal between institutional education and practices of popular knowledge circulation, while situating the latter as an alternative.