room: CSM Labs

Imagine, you’re a tutor guiding a Black fashion student on a project about their ancestry. As the tutorials go on, it’s evident you lack the needed knowledge of their heritage to provide effective feedback. Short on time for research, you’re hesitant to comment on cultural aspects beyond your expertise. Fashion FeedBLACK bridges this gap, aiming…

Outreach and Contextual Admissions work seeks to support students from under-represented backgrounds in accessing and achieving on UAL courses. No one student or their journey are the same. This discussion aims to explore this important area of work through perspectives from UAL practitioners, students who’ve taken part in our programmes and secondary Art and Design…

Internationalisation policies, as well as economic and forced migration, have led to changes in the linguistic make up of universities. How can practitioners with an interest in language enhance their teaching so that it is more inclusive for students from diverse racial, language and socio-economic backgrounds? This panel may be of interest to tutors who…

Walking pedagogies is a new series of audio dialogues exploring pedagogy through conversation and walking. The project brings UAL staff and practitioners together to curate and lead meaningful walks rooted in specific London locations to share personal context and history. Drawing on walking ethnographic practice and psychogeography, these recordings become unique records of what it…

How can cross-departmental collaboration enable new teaching and learning approaches to social design? Our panel discusses a new approach to collaboration which brings together academic and technical resources to deliver a project outside of the traditional teaching environment by embedding students into a community where they were required to engage and co-develop in response to…