This article brings into relation critical perspectives and practical tactics from a range of different fields—performance studies, visual art practice, pedagogy and educational theory, and activism and community organising—in order to create some space for re-imagining what might be possible within the dynamics of the Higher Education classroom. It proceeds through a series of speculative modes: ‘what if we think of the classroom as a market?’, which for many is the currently dominant metaphor under neoliberalist economies; ‘what if we think of the work of art as a classroom?’, which traces the recent ‘pedagogical’ or ‘educational’ turn in visual art practice; and finally, ‘what if we think of the classroom as a work of art?’, in which the creative impulses and tactics drawn from performance practices, activism and community organising, and socially engaged art are speculatively applied to the arts and humanities classroom.

本文引入了来自不同领域（表演研究，视觉艺术实践，教育学和教育理论以及行动主义和社区组织）的批判性观点和实践策略，以便为重新想象内部可能发生的事情创造一些空间高等教育课堂的动态。它通过一系列投机模式进行：“如果我们把教室看作市场呢？”，对于许多新自由主义经济体来说，这是当前占主导地位的隐喻。“如果我们把艺术品当作教室呢？”，它追随了视觉艺术实践中最近的“教学”或“教育”转变。最后，“如果我们将教室视为一件艺术品，该怎么办？”，其中从表演实践，行动主义和社区组织中汲取了创造性的冲动和策略，