Intellectual Context
Rulebreakers English Studios emerges from nearly a decade of imaginary institutional creation — a body of performance-based research exploring how art, education, and entrepreneurship overlap in Thailand’s rapidly transforming sociopolitical imaginary.
Infinite Thailand
Our earliest project, Infinite Thailand, imagined a vast speculative network of Thai creative institutions — real, fake, and hybrid — that question how progress, prosperity, and imagination intertwine.
It included projects like Tunnelparks, a proposed subterranean theme park system; Chinatown 3.0, a vision of urban renewal through cultural simulation; and dozens of temporary enterprises, schools, and campaigns.
Each of these was both fictional and operative — built as if they already existed, so that people could act inside them. This method, later named Institutional Performance Art, now underpins how RBES builds its learning environments: as fully inhabitable fictions.
The Rulebreakers Books
Over time, these works converged into what we call the Rulebreakers Saga — a series of speculative manuals, playbooks, and storyworlds that explore what education and enterprise might become if creativity and ownership were shared by all participants.
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From Imaginary to Operational
RBES is where those fictions become real enterprises. The Studios are not “inspired by” those projects — they are their continuation, built as a functioning version of the imaginary economy Infinite Thailand envisioned.
In this sense, the school is both a prototype and a sequel.
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