Parallel session: Parallel session 2

Lorde says that self-preservation isn’t self-indulgent, but an act of political warfare. Her use of the descriptor ‘warfare’ seemingly aligns with where people of colour have to prioritise preservation – in highly politicised spaces like HEI. If we expand ‘preservation’ beyond the ‘self’ to a community responsibility, how might approaches to psychological safety lend itself…

This is a visual presentation of the process and findings of an Action Research Project of the PgCert in Academic Practice. It explored ways of introducing antiracist photography into a studio lighting and colour accuracy workshop. Inclusively designed and problematised in dialogue with UAL colleagues, it aimed to demonstrate racial biases of photography histories and…

Sketchbooks are a key component of creative research, as a means to capture ideas, document the learning journey, and practice emerging skills in a safe environment. However, I’ve noticed that some students are unsure or reluctant to use sketchbooks. What are some common student misunderstandings and anxieties regarding sketchbooks, what assumptions do we make as…

UAL uses Blackboard Collaborate, a platform that can be seen as transactional, sterile, inert and patriarchal in design and ownership. Digital and virtual tools and spaces can facilitate online community but just as easily alienate and disconnect with screen and VLEs as place of access, also as barriers. How could the hegemony of the space…

This session will be a brief insight into students’ affective response to the tutorial space, as well as broader reflections on the role of sensory experience in learning.

The importance of getting people together to draw with simple materials, inside public and free-to-access spaces.