One of the main inspirations for this project was the book 'The Ignorant Schoolmaster' by Jacques Rancière written in 1987. The greater part of the book is devoted to a description and analysis of his pedagogical mission which he called "intellectual emancipation". Furthermore, Ranciere repositions the role of the pedagogue in his book. He reenvisions this role from an all-wise, top-down teacher who educates his non-knowing students into someone who acts as a catalyst that guides students to further develop their own intellectual emancipation.

Informal Host was occupying a central space within the art academy, a surrounding that has its own pre-existing structure and rules. This space normally was used as a typical educational setting; a classical classroom setup with chairs, tables, a projector, and sometimes an omniscient teacher figure at the front while obedient students where listening at the back. With this work I tried to both influence and understand the learning process and the emancipation that results when those, sometimes subtle, hierarchies and other pre-existing structures are overturned.

Secondly, the work provides a platform for art students to independently organize public dialogues, workshops, lectures, performances and so on, that they otherwise would be unable to organize in their own studio space.