One Day Event: Online via MS Teams Friday 23rd April 2021 10.30am-4.30pm
Our themes for this year’s conference are – Responding-Reframing-Rethinking – as we acknowledge the magnificent work done by staff and students, across the sector, to deal with and go beyond the limitations imposed by the pandemic.
Over recent months we have seen the fantastic response in our to unprecedented uncertainty and change. How do we want to see the culture of creative education adapt? Is this a moment to re-frame our priorities and show a new way forward? What can we learn from how we, as educators and practitioners, have responded to the COVID-19 challenge?
We look forward to a day of debate about how we can continue to respond-reframe-rethink and continue to support our students in their ambitions, and work together with our colleagues in other subject areas to demonstrate the importance of collaboration and creativity in all parts of society.
GLAD 22nd Annual Conference 2019
Art & Design Education – where do we go from here?
Time: Friday 6th December 2019. One-Day Event starting at 10.30am and finishing at 4.30pm
Venue: Benzie Building, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, All Saints, Manchester M15 6BR.
It’s the UK, and it’s 2031. 12 years to oblivion, or another 12 years to Brexit? Will there still be creative teenagers in schools eager to study with us? Will the creative industries still be looking to us to promote the latest talent?
What new technologies might have replaced us in our studios and lecture halls? It’s art school, Jim, but not as we know it…
At a time of unprecedented change, the annual GLAD conference is one thing you can rely on, aiming to steer a clear path through all the chaos and the negativity. Curriculum review; Design for sustainability education; Alternative models of learning; Transformational technologies. These are just a few of the critical issues to be visited and debated at this year’s conference.
Whether you are a researcher into creative pedagogy; a lecturer with exciting new ideas from the studio floor; or a leader with possible insights into the future direction of the sector - you are warmly invited to join us this year.
Keynote from Professor Simon Ofield-Kerr
Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic), University of the Arts, London
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Environmental and Social Sustainability in the Curriculum.
How do we protect, develop and innovate sustainable practices within Art & Design Higher Education pedagogies?
London College of Communication, UAL
Mon 16 September 2019, 10.00-16.15
The next generation of university Art, Design and Media students are not just in the nation’s classrooms, but also out on the streets, proclaiming a climate emergency, marching in Extinction Rebellion protests, articulating their concerns with commendable clarity and urgency in the media. As this generation arrives in our universities, how does the curriculum which we offer reflect their concerns and passions? What are we doing to help them use their creative skills to find answers to the global environmental and social challenges of our times? Join us for a day of debate about the role of art & design schools in taking forward the sustainability agenda.
This GLAD symposium forms part of London College of Communication Design School's exhibition and events programme called Emergence featuring projects for service design, social innovation and sustainable futures and takes place during the London Design Festival. For further information on EMERGENCE: Service/Social/Sustainable Design see http://www.emergenceshow.com
