Blue Dandelion is an experiment in the learning humanities. Developed by Shirin Vossoughi, it is a shared home for public intellectual work on education that attunes to the politics and poetics of human learning. It serves as a sketchpad for emergent ideas and collaborations with fellow educators, researchers and artists.

Dandelions held a special place in my own upbringing. My father taught me to see their seeds as signs of radical hope and unpredictable possibility. A political and literary newsletter he developed with fellow displaced Iranians had the dandelion as its symbol (قاصدک). Dandelions are sometimes thought of as weeds. Yet they grow everywhere and offer nourishment and medicine. This is one of the ways I have come to see learning.