How can structured cross-disciplinary thinking be supported? What kind of systems can be enacted to foster transdisciplinary exchange?
Evaluative Report and Bibliography
Cumulative summary of the project: the final paper.
Positioning queerness and marginalization with an orientation towards hope at the center of the project of actioning change within the university system, with a range of textual support, from Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, to Jack Halberstam, bell hooks, and José Esteban Muñoz.
Table of UAL Discussions
Compiling a list of the UAL staff with whom I have discussed my project, with formal meetings and conversations.
Seeminly simple gestures like name tags have profound effects, and over the course of the programme-wide event, the fifty attendees understood the purpose of the social and were connecting in many different configurations.
“learning is, in its essence, a fundamentally social phenomenon, reflecting our own deeply social nature as human beings capable of knowing”
Event Proposals: CSM-wide
Proposals for two events with CSM Creative Producer: Not Alone But Together & Feast of Conversations
A UAL-wide Academic Support workshop on collaboration hosted with Poojitha Lal and support from Adam Ramejkis, highlighting and working through the idea of collaboration as a learnable skill rather than an assumed ability.
Study Proposal + Biography
Re-visiting my application Study Proposal for Applied Imagination while writing my life story in bio form for the end-of-the-year publication shows the inevitability of my project.
“Most of UAL communities are based on the nationality. I feel like they treat Chinese students like tourists here. There’s no access to achives or to the history. A lot of people really want cultural exchange but feel like they are just visiting.”
Culture & Enterprise Breakfast Club
A big part of this project is support: supporting and encouraging not only my ideas but other initiatives people have to hold space for people to come together. Breakfast Club is a perfect example of this.