Bringing business sector experience to advise on the project of making structural change to support connections at the university.
Month: September 2022
The Death: Reflective Zine
Making a zine about my project as a reflective process.
Creating Space for Exchange: Presentation
A presentation giving an overview the project regarding engagement with stakeholders and experts as well as interventions and resultant learning.
For such a tangled system as UAL, there is no magic bullet solution to supporting cross-disciplinary exchange, but rather a decentralised, diffuse approach seems most effective with the time I have available.
“Cross-disciplinary project-oriented and theme-oriented creative work is no longer a niche for experimental or activist art; rather it has become a mainstream skill requirement for the commercial market.”
Post-Grad Community exists to provide a platform and opportunities for postgraduate students and alumni across UAL. A discussion of new initiatives including a postgraduate message board, forms and structures of community building, and lessons from Leanne’s previous role at Goldsmiths.
What does it mean to reify an idea, to give it weight and meaning?
Can that be done in writing? How do ideas spread in the world?
Why are community and collaboration important?
Can these concepts be represented in poetry?
Visually mapping existing structure along with opportunities and spaces to collaborate at UAL both in terms of Work and Network.

Writing “automatic” poems in response to one hundred AI generated Surrealist images, around the themes of gender stereotypes and feminism.