This paper will discuss recent projects investigating the space of ‘public pedagogy’. Using the obsolete technology of letterpress printing, through the cooperative endeavour ‘Commoners Press’, these projects interrogate the domestic, the public and the space of education. ‘Domestic Production 1: Means of Production’ investigates creative printing production, collaborative community practice and design responses to the COVID pandemic and the ensuing lockdowns. It connects to the practices of alternative economic models (Healy 2020), design for the commons (Martilla 2014) and public pedagogy (Charman & Dixon 2021). This work involved printing 3D printed type of a ‘Commoners Press statement of intent’ on a small printing press at the home during lockdown and distributing the work via the ‘Designers on your doorstep’ project as part of Design Fringe and Linden New Art Gallery. ‘these three words’ took part in the Melbourne and Geelong Design Weeks in March 2022 and responsed to the festival’s theme of “civic spaces”. This project is discussed as an example of a mode of public pedagogy (Charman & Dixon 2021) which enables moments of collective reflection, inclusiveness, community activation, local knowledge sharing as well as collaborative making, creative exploration, social aspiration and being together. The project asked participants to respond to the provocation ‘Thinking about the future liveability of your community, what three words come to mind?’. Participants were then invited to typeset their ‘three words’ in movable metal type–a time-consuming task–before being mounted in a press for printing. The two projects are both examples of shifts in the nature of space; public, private, domestic, and commercial as well as in their relevancy to the growing discourse around ‘public pedagogy’. Can public pedagogy find a place within the constraints of contemporary education? Does public pedagogy suggest a way for contemporary education industry to contribute to its communities?