Outside the rules, outside the boundaries.

The following contribution is a written account of Jaana Erkkila-Hill's keynote lecture at the FORUM+ symposium The art school as an ecosystem: Future perspectives on higher arts education, co-organised with ARIA during the research festival ARTICULATE on 20 October 2023. The event also marked the launch of the FORUM+ October 2023 issue and new dossier "The art school as an ecosystem". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]