Comparing notes and sharing information and interests in long-term, holistic systems solutions rooted in an activist mentality of inclusivity.
Month: July 2022
Darla-jane expressed a desire to empower students to stop thinking “this is just the way it is” and instead feel “we have the power to change how it is.”
Also, reviewing the KE strategy document and understand the KE ecosystem!
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Mapping UAL power structures*
Information gathering and visual mapping university structures in a conversation with Adam Ramejkis.
Haraway, in her thinking, structure, and writing is advocating for messy entanglement, for multiple perspectives—not only human—and lessons from other-than-human ways of being.
“Tentacularity is about life lived along lines—and such a wealth of lines—not at points, not in spheres”
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Care: the politics of interdependence
Reflecting on a manifesto calling for care without boundaries, on the necessity of the notion of care to be structurally embedded across society.
“In order to really thrive we need caring communities. We need localised environments in which we can flourish: in which we can support each other and generate net works of belonging. We need conditions that enable us to act collaboratively to create communities that both support our abilities and nurture our interdependencies.”
Discussion with Culture & Enterprise and Spatial Practices Academic Support Lecturer on his role, collaboration, and challenges: understanding the structure and roles of those within.
A discussion of compassionate pedagogy, Creative Mindsets, implementation of change in the university, institution as ecology, and policy with a UAL developer in Academic Enhancement within Teaching, Learning and Employability Exchange.
A damning portrait of the state of higher education today: neoliberal market forces have corporatised and commercialised universities to death.
A 45-minute presentation and workshop offering an experience of and reflections on the emergent networks of knowledges and communications that arose from the non-hierarchical, transdisciplinary approach of Ramejkis’ series of sessions: Communication through intercultural lenses.
In collaboration with MAIM student Poojitha Lal, an in-person presentation of our experiences with the university, the lack of collaborative possibilities, and a challenge to the audience.
“We need the wider academic support audience here to take these deficits seriously and work towards more spaces, resources, and support for the social space of learning and community.”