Monday 10 March 2014

Design pedagogy

Design is to me a passport to navigate through life, travel across disciplines, foster people’s enquiring minds and develop them into experts of a greater whole. 

give voice

value the journey 


look at things from different perspectives


challenge reality

change perceptions

endlessly explore

I see my appointment as a way to circulate and further explore design communication as part of a deep ecology whereby you realise that you have to be able to live and create by your virtues; a process of self-commitment, idealism, passion and inspiration. I am passionate to contribute in the collective unraveling, speculation and creation of new cartographies of what design communication practice and research are and may become.

IMAGES FROM MY COURSES AND RESEARCH WORKSHOPS: 1
. How to make cinema without film (Collaborative publication and workshop - University of Copenhagen)

BA illustration - Southampton: Reflective contextual report called the presentation document. This encouraged an exploration of personal processes and development of the student's creative identity. Lost in role-play students were allowed to become free-range thinkers, challenge and critically situate their work amongst others, develop independent voice and creative authorship.

3. On gaze - University of Greenwich, BA Animation: students put their body into the role of a camera as an exercise to help them write an essay on the gaze. The project aimed to engage participants in creative and critical design practice by developing their capacity to observe. Not only it invoked knowledge about the agency of things but also emphasised the body as a conductive medium of criticality.

4. Leonardo workshops- University of Goldsmiths, University of Greenwich, Narrative and sequence’ (year 2, BA Graphic and Digital Design),  ‘Design Process Animation’ (year 2, BA 3d Digital Design and Animation), ‘Visual Storytelling’ (year 1, BA 3d Digital Design and Animation).

Experimental and socially engaged modes of design that familiarised students with different styles, developed students’ capacity to apply their concepts into a range of mediums (books, animation, theatre, puppetry, interactive installations) and linked these with other disciplines (sociology, anthropology and the sciences) 

5 and 6 images from PhD research



TTEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES
           a. Writing, leadership and delivery of new programmes
‘Orientation to MA’
CCW, University of the Arts London
Preparatory course for international students who have been accepted onto a postgraduate course at Camberwell, Chelsea or Wimbledon

‘Creative Identity and Innovative Thinking’ (short course)
Chelsea College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts London

‘Preparation for Postgraduate Studies in UK Art & Design’ (online short course)
Chelsea College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts London


b. Development and teaching of modules
‘Authorship and Identity Statement’ (FMP)
MA Graphic Design Communication, University of the Arts Chelsea College of Arts London and Design

‘MA Portfolio Preparation’
 University of the Arts London, International office in Beijing, China

‘Presentation Document: A Reflective Journey’
 BA Illustration (Year 3), Southampton Solent

‘Graphics Technical Studies’
 BA Design (Year 2), Goldsmiths - University of London

‘Narrative and Sequence’ (Course Coordinator)
BA Graphic Design  (Year 2), University of Greenwich

‘Design Process Animation’ (Course Coordinator)
BA 3D Digital Design Animation (Year 2), University of Greenwich

‘Visual Storytelling’ (Course Coordinator – module revalidation)
BA 3D Digital Design Animation (Year 2), University of Greenwich

‘Design in context - The museum brief’
BA Graphic Design, BA 3D Digital Design Animation  (Year 1), University of Greenwich


c. Contribution to taught courses

‘Research Methods’
MA Design Education, Goldsmiths, University of London

‘Critical theory lectures’
MA Graphic Design Communication, MA Curatorial Practice, MA Spatial Design, MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts London

‘Theory in Practice’
BA Product Design (Year 2), Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London

‘Design Dissertation’
BA Graphic Design, BA 3D Digital Design Animation  (Year 3), University of Greenwich

‘Final Major Project’
BA Graphic Design, BA 3D Digital Design Animation (Year 3), University of Greenwich

‘Concepts of Art and Design Theory’

BA Illustration, BA Fine Art (Year 1), Southampton Solent



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