Organised by University of The Arts London (UAL)
A conversational seminar series exploring the future of creative art and design education in digital spaces.
Digital spaces and practices are evident in almost all creative and learning journeys. This is reflected in students’ experience of Higher Education and in the Creative Industries’ increasing emphasis on online collaboration.
However, fully online creative education remains difficult to imagine as it appears to contradict key characteristics inherent in ‘residential’ provision in various ways.
In conversation with experts, we will explore the challenges and opportunities for fully online and digital creative education, the implications for the identity of our subjects and institutions.
Seminar themes
- The ‘desituating’ of material practices, embodiment and notions of co-presence.
- An assumed lack of ‘togetherness’ and group cohesion through increased flexibility of provision.
- The extent to which online provision amplifies and reflects current tensions around access, scale, and creativity
- Which aspects of subject tradition that should be questioned or protected in the attempt to be more inclusive