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.
Author: Eleanor Beckman
“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.
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John Dewey on Experience & Education
Dipping into pragmatist and educational theorist John Dewey’s ideas and their application to my project and the current educational environment. “The principle that development of experience comes about through interaction means that education is essentially a social process.”
An afternoon discussing education, the founding and running of an alternative elementary school in the 1980s to today, pedagogical values and inspirational education thinkers, and reflection on my current project. Plus, communal singing!
Comparing notes and sharing information and interests in long-term, holistic systems solutions rooted in an activist mentality of inclusivity.
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!