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Look At The (E)state We're In (LATEWI) Film

pnellis — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 22:59:37 +0000

A short film documenting Look At The Estate We're In (LATEWI). A 2015 Curriculum Development Fund and CCW Grad School supported project providing work experience opportunities to UAL students, where students created, curated, and executed a two day a symposia and live art event in relation to art on council estates and in the community.

Gravity Sketch user testing with Chelsea MAGDC students

cfollows — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 17:11:32 +0000

Following on from our first introduction to the Gravity Sketch team by the Tate at the Tate digital show & tell event, the Gravity team have offered to come to UAL and work with our staff and students on testing the new app in development.

This workshop came at a good time for CCW digital LTE as we are starting to explore new 3D technologies through 3D printing and virtual reality Oculus Rift. Also really interesting to see the Gravity Skech app is now linked up to 3D printing service Shapeways, the quality of the 3D prints look brilliant.

The first session took place Nov 2015 at Chelsea:

The new cohort of MAGDC students were let loose on Gravity Sketch software to assess usability and also to creatively challenge themselves to think about the uses and expression of 3D virtual space and it’s relationship to new 3D printing opportunities.

Next week the students visit the company’s studio to try out the sketching environment with the virtual reality headset, Oculus Rift.

First quick experiments revealed a leaning towards fragmented environments with a sense of space extending both sides of the screen.

See more here on the MAGDC blog.

See also a fantastic blog post from 'A new design experience' ISD student Gonzalo Caravia Garcia on a follow up workshop with Gravity Sketch team exploring Virtual Reality through Oculus Rift

Some Images from the afternoon:

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PALIN & THE BEAR: Taxonomy of Drawing:

cfollows — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:04:55 +0000

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Drawing from Experience: Fra Angelico to Leonardo

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From Alamo to Photo

cfollows — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:59:44 +0000

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DRAWN IDENTITIES: Pepsi, Shakers and Tattoos

cfollows — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:57:29 +0000

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The Raw and the Cooked - essay by Stephen Farthing

cfollows — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:52:44 +0000

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Can an online forum address a lack of student engagement?

mmcgrane — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 21:55:44 +0000

In my teaching development project I wanted to tackle the issue of a lack of student engagement on the BA Fashion Illustration course.

Poor attendance is the biggest and most obvious sign of this lack of engagement, and when students and staff come in to classes with very low numbers it’s a real let down. The capacity for energetic and dynamic activity is reduced and the atmosphere suffers.

Where is everyone?? It doesn’t feel like a thriving community of practitioners engaged in their medium.

How do you engage students when they won’t come to class? My idea was to use an online arena… reaching stay-at-home students as well as part-time staff members, and engaging both students and staff in a community of practice online.

I called the blog ‘How are you doing’. Group members were encouraged to post a weekly self-portrait and to engage in constructive dialogue, leaving each other feedback and responses to each other’s drawings.

I ran the blog with the 3^rd Year students during terms 2 & 3 while they were completing their Final Major Project.

About half of the students participated, mostly the regular attenders BUT also some of the non-attenders. They engaged in some useful and constructive dialogue, although most of it was quite surface level.

Overall the momentum didn’t really build within the time frame. The project took a lot of hand tending, and I had to tease out almost every single posting and comment, it was very labor intensive.

The project did yield some breakthroughs… Students engaged with a shared practice, and there was the beginning of a line of communication between absent students and diligent attenders.

But more time was needed to really foster sustained interaction.

The students didn’t readily engage in a constructive dialogue, they need more support to build these skills, probably in the studio environment on campus.

Busy students (and staff) found it difficult to make time to engage in a shared practice outside of the assessment system. There was also the issue that the 3^rd Year students were already firmly ingrained in a culture of disengagement.

All of the students said they would have participated more if they had been introduced to the practice from year 1, so…. That’s my next project, to create a course blog for Fashion Illustration, harnessing the wider community of practitioners, as a tool for professional practice and most importantly as a means for engaging students.

DISCLAIMER: Please excuse the shoddy drawings, dodgy stop-motion animation and all-round terrible quality, I made this in a day.

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Look At The (E)state We're In (LATEWI) Film

Gravity Sketch user testing with Chelsea MAGDC students

PALIN & THE BEAR: Taxonomy of Drawing:

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Drawing from Experience: Fra Angelico to Leonardo

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From Alamo to Photo

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DRAWN IDENTITIES: Pepsi, Shakers and Tattoos

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The Raw and the Cooked - essay by Stephen Farthing

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Can an online forum address a lack of student engagement?

Field Notes: Lesson 7

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Measured Drawing: Lesson 5

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Making a Livelier Drawing: Lesson 4

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Creativity: Lesson 8

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With Colour: Lesson 6

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Toned Paper: Lesson 3

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The Edge of the Pencil: Lesson 2

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