This article discusses The Pedagogical Impulse, a project focused on artistic research and education. The project has initiated a number of experimental and collaborative projects, including a series of artist residencies in various sites in Toronto with artists Sarah Febbraro, Shannon Gerard, Rodrigo Hernandez-Gomez, Hannah Jickling, Hazel Meyer, and Helen Reed. The project reconceptualizes the residency as micropolitical and an ethical engagement. The article also discusses precedents to socially engaged art, including the Artist Placement Group that was created in 1965.