하자작업장학교는 일, 놀이, 학습을 모토로 만들어진 10대들을 위한 새로운 배움의 창의적 학습공간입니다. 1997년 IMF 국제 금융위기로 인해 한국사회 전반에 걸친 사회적 문제들이 대두되었고, 특히 청(소)년 실업문제가 시급한 문제로 떠올랐습니다. 1999년에 개관한 하자센터는 고실업시대의 청소년들이 겪는 동기상의 위기들을 보다 적극적으로 해결하고자 사회적,문화적 실험의 일환으로 만들어졌고, 하고 싶은 일을 찾아 스스로의 삶을 만들어가고자 하는 청소년들을 위한 공간으로 출발했습니다.

Haja Production School is a creative learning space. The School was established with the aim to give young people a space where they can work, play and learn freely.

In 1997, Korea went through the IMF crisis, a serious economic crisis. At this time there were many issues in Korean society. The unemployment of young people was especially an urgent issue. Haja Center opened its doors in 1999 as a more active solution to the issue of young people's motivation crisis in a era of high unemployment. Haja started out as a social and cultural experiment, as a space for young people who actively look for what they want to do and how they want to lead their lives.

'학교를 그만둔 것이지, 배움을 포기한 것은 아니다'라고 말했던 하자센터 초기의 10대들의 말처럼, 입시위주의 획일적인 교육에서 벗어나 자신들이 원하는 학습을 직접 설계하고 지속적인 학습을 하고자 하는 10대들의 요청에 의해 2001년 하자작업장학교가 개교했습니다.

The teenagers who were at Haja Center at the beginning said, 'We have stopped going to school, but this does not mean we have stopped learning'. As this saying goes the young people wanted to break free from the uniformed and standardized education which was centered around the university entrance examination. They wanted to plan and design their own learning and carry out continuous learning. Based on this need, the Haja Production School opened in 2001.

하자작업장학교의 10대들은 인문/시민 문화적 프로젝트를 통해 이 시대를 살아가는 시민으로서 돌봄, 사회적 기여와 활력에 대해 고민하며 개인과 타인, 세계에 대한 인식과 성찰의 시간들을 경험합니다. 이러한 경험들을 영상, 시각/디자인, 공연/음악 등의 매체학습을 통해 각자의 다양한 문화작업물로 생산합니다. 하자작업장학교의 10대들은 세계를 인식하고 표현한 것들을 통해 보다 다양한 사람들과 소통하며 관계하는 것을 지향하고 있습니다. 서로 다른 문화, 배경, 지역의 차이를 넘어 동시대를 살아가는 사람들로서, 경계를 넘나들며 접속하기 위해 네트워크를 만들어 나가고자 합니다.

Through the humanities and civil cultural projects, the young people of Haja Production School learned, thought and discussed intensively about how to care for others as citizens living in this era, and about social contribution and energy. Together with this, they went through many experiences of reflection and awareness on the relationship between individuals and other people, and individuals and the world. With these experiences the young people learned to produce and make diverse cultural works through different mediums such as video, image/design and performance/music. As people living in the same era, the young people of Haja Production School aim to communicate and establish relations with the diverse people of society and the world through their awareness of the world. They want to go beyond the different cultures, background and regions, and make their networks to meet people within and beyond borders.

하자(Let's do it) 작업장(production) 학교(school without borders)는 21세기 불안정 고용시대에 청소년들이 각자의 학습을 스스로 기획하고 직접 해보면서 배울 수 있는 벽이 없는 학교를 지향합니다.

The word 'Haja' of Haja Production School means "Let's do it!". As a school where young people 'produce' and as a 'school without borders', HPS aims to be a school without walls, where young people living in this highly unstable era can plan their own learning and where they can carry out what they learn by themselves.