Monthly Archives: January 2025

Reflections on Workshop 1 & 2

The session began with a creative icebreaker. We were spread across four tables, and we selected postcards that resonated with us and explained our choices to the group. My selection – a serene sea scene with an undercurrent of lurking … Continue reading

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Reflections on the Teaching at UAL Chosen Reading Task 2

The second task asked us to read one paper of our choice from the “Teaching at UAL” reading list. I chose “On the spectrum within art and design academic practice” by Luca Damiani (2018), a practicing artist and a UAL … Continue reading

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Reflections on the Arts Pedagogy Allocated Reading Task 1

Polly Savage’s The New Life: Mozambican Art Students in the USSR, and the Aesthetic Epistemologies of Anti-Colonial Solidarity (2022) examines the experiences of Mozambican bolseiros in the Soviet art education system during the 1980s. The text focuses on their training … Continue reading

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