Session #124

– Hybrid Session –

‘What art does is to provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you.’ Olivia Laing, 2020

In troubled times, art practices have a unique ability to engage people in what can be overwhelming social, political, and environmental discourses; viewing and making art can provide time and space for remembrance, reflection, and reparation and can also encourage participants to challenge injustice.

It is the aim of this session to share how art practices can be valued in architecture and design schools, as methods to investigate the global issues of our times and to empower students as ethical designers and active citizens.

Delegates are invited to present their own art-practice-research (painting /drawing/ collages/ maps / zines / artists books etc.) and share how their creative practices inform and enrich pedagogical activities; we encourage delegates to share examples of individual work (student and academic) and/or work that is co-created and/or work that explores non-hierarchical models of learning and teaching.

Delegates will be invited to present their work in a 10-min presentation in a format of their choosing, alongside an exhibition that will be open for the duration of the conference (physical and digital); delegates will also be invited to create a co-created zine as a record of this conference session.

We hope this session will provide an opportunity to celebrate the relationship between the academic as art-practice-researcher and their associated teaching methodologies; to promote the relevance of art practices as catalysts for learning and meaning-making in troubled times; and to recognise the potential of co-created artworks as sites that encourage trust and dialogue.

Please submit up to 3 images with your abstract.