Developing and embedding sensory object-based learning into subject-specific curriculum design.

Abstract

Sensory learning can inform and individualise creative processes. Using objects from UAL's Archives this session will provide space to connect senses with personal experiences whilst highlighting the contestations it allows within Higher Education learning environments.

To begin with, this workshop will offer opportunities to engage in a playful process or ludic practice, connected with object-based learning. This process can be designed further to teach within a more subject-specific curriculum design.

As part of the workshop you will be asked to respond to the following questions:

How can sensory experiences play a valid role in decolonising the curriculum, if designed into course-related and assessed project briefs?

Where and when can sensory learning help students to work through creative project briefs?

What aspects of sensory experiences affect students’ creativity? And how can this apply to teaching or supporting the learning of diverse groups of students?

Why is sensory learning valid to address in a creative subject curriculum?

The workshop will offer insight to student experiences of sensory learning in Higher Education. Participants will engage in practical activities to address the theme of subverting the curriculum and develop sensory learning tools to embed into course structures.