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Books Thoughts

Creativity: the world needs it, is the university providing it?

“We never create anything fresh or valuable in utter isolation; we always create in relation to other people and other things”

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Vision

Concepts for Creating Space for Student Exchange

An overview of concepts and initiatives resulting from research, discussion, and system analysis.

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Vision

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.

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Vision

Into the space of not-knowing: Research Report and Bibliography

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.

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Books

Re-Inventing Art Education: Reflections from The Netherlands

“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.”

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Vision

Collaborating on Collaboration with CSM Changemaker Poojitha Lal

Visually mapping existing structure along with opportunities and spaces to collaborate at UAL both in terms of Work and Network.

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Interview

Conversation: Knowledge Exchange with Darla-Jane Gilroy

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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Interview

Conversation: learning developer Matthew Phull

Discussion with Culture & Enterprise and Spatial Practices Academic Support Lecturer on his role, collaboration, and challenges: understanding the structure and roles of those within.

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Books Thoughts

Dark Academia: How Universities Die

A damning portrait of the state of higher education today: neoliberal market forces have corporatised and commercialised universities to death.

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Intervention Thoughts

Intercultural Communication Across Courses: presenting at UAL EdEx 2022 conference


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.