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Pedagogy, process, mortality, grief

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A developing resource for artists, designers and students. I am creating support material for my teaching and to support the readers of my first two books

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Podcasting, Cinema, Mediating Knowledge, Sound Production

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Art, Photography, Picturing, Place

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How does one make images? How does one make work, utilise process, how does research inform practice?, teaching research

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magic lantern, handling, collections, collaboration

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drawing, migration, arts-based research, collaboration

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Art practice and knowledge exchange with partner organisations informs themed course modules

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In this essay, artist and senior lecturer Fergus Heron explores the rich relationship between landscape and photography.
In the series Beyond the View by artist Helen Sear, with assemblies of layered photographs we are offered a possibility of considering landscape as an idea. Central to each work in the series is a spectator looking - seemingly drawn to a horizon - and situated within a composition that complicates conventional expectations of what a landscape picture is. Traditional relations of foreground, background, surface, depth, subject and setting are reworked. Landscape, this work suggests, is a perceptual process; exceeding purely visual experience, it occurs, through a combination of embodied presence and imaginative engagement in which the subject of a picture includes the act of looking.

Landscape is also actively productive of photographic imagery in many different ways. In the work of Susan Derges, photographic paper, often in large sheets, is submerged in rivers, or in more recent work, constructed aquatic environments. Materials are exposed to a combination of natural and artificial light. The work invites intense analytical looking with the quality of printed detail it contains and is at the same time, mesmerising and wonderous. Dafna Talmor's Constructed Landscapes is a project developed intuitively from a desire to work outside of landscape traditions while continuing to compulsively photograph places of personal significance, driven by instinct and sentiment. Collages are made from negatives exposed in camera in numerous locations, reconfigured to transform images from specific places into pictures of imaginary universal spaces. The process of combining different sections of negative into new negatives before printing produces lines and gaps in the finished print that reveal and comment upon their own construction process and emphasise the constructed character of landscape as photograph. Landscape, these works suggest in different ways, even before materialisation as a photograph, is an object of desire; active in defining different natures and ideas of place.

Landscape, like photography, is a relatively modern idea. Around the mid nineteenth century, the invention of photography revealed that cultures were prepared to form knowledge, beliefs and fantasies through optical, mechanically produced - and reproducible - images. During this time, industrialisation began a process of changing where people lived, according to how people worked. Within such broad transformative change, more specifically, economically advanced industrial nations engaged in colonial expansion; railways introduced unprecedented speed of travel and early forms of international tourism developed. Relatively distant places were experienced and seen according to social attitudes and cultural impressions. Images from distant places influenced how familiar places came to be depicted. As processes of habitation, work and travel altered through modernisation, detachment and distance began to characterise human relations to place. Land became increasingly perceived as landscape, and landscape increasingly encountered as picture - as much as, if not more than, any direct experience of place or nature. Photographs became established amidst a variety of forms of landscape pictures.

Perhaps the most commonly perceived kind of photograph understood as an example of landscape photography is the topographic photograph. As an adjective, topography describes the arrangement or accurate representation of the physical features of an area and the character of a work of art depicting places in a realistic and detailed manner. According to Miles Orvell, the topographic photograph is descriptive, more so than other kinds of landscape photographs, including the view photograph, that renders scenery as spectacle, and the aesthetic landscape photograph, characterised by the artistic vision of the photographer. Furthermore, the topographic photograph is usually part of a larger discourse, often political or scientific. These kinds of categories, Orvell suggests, provide useful distinctions, but they are also arbitrary and can overlap in any specific example of a body of work by an individual photographer.

The first topographic landscape photographs were made in the second half of the nineteenth century as industrialised western economies including the United States of America and Great Britain used photography in what were known as topographic surveys, carried out to produce detailed visual descriptions of land for purposes including the development of irrigation systems and railways, mining for natural resources and recording architectural and archaeological sites, some for state archives and libraries, others for corporate uses.

In the mid to late twentieth century, early survey photographs partly inspired photographers emerging from art colleges, concerned with questions around the capabilities of photography to address converging aesthetic and environmental issues. Selected examples of work by these photographers were included in a highly influential exhibition called New Topographics that took place in 1975 at The George Eastman House Museum of Photography in Rochester, New York, USA. The exhibition brought together works, critical in intent, that signaled new attitudes towards land use and development, in which the effects of human intervention were explicit and conventional conceptions of what could be termed as nature, involved renewed cultural consciousness of the effect of technology and commerce on the land. Work included in New Topographics depicted landscapes of an emerging post-modern era.

Another significantly influential practice from the 1970s is The Re-photographic Survey Project that paired celebrated nineteenth-century survey photographs of the American West with contemporary views from precisely the same vantage points made just over a century later, between 1977 and 1979. As a photographic strategy, this enables imaginative re-inhabitation of a nineteenth-century point of view, contemplation of the significance of visible changes and continuities, as well as the function of landscape photographs as pictures that exceed simple recording, towards influencing attitudes and beliefs.

Contemporary photography that can be seen in connection includes the work of Jem Southam, known for making extended series of photographs through patient observation of continuities and changes, often at a single location over months or years. Southam's work is made primarily, though not exclusively, close to where he lives in South West England and explores interrelated personal, cultural, political, scientific and psychological concerns. Similarly, the work of Guy Moreton involves connections to particular places with a focus on visible and invisible traces, landmarks and ruins. Moreton's pictures reference specific artistic, literary and philosophical work related to sites across northern Europe, ranging from Norway and Scotland to the North, East and South of England. Both Southam and Moreton make highly descriptive detailed photographs with powerful aesthetic qualities that also contain a great deal of visual information, enabling the viewer to deliberately and slowly register features of a picture. Their work demonstrates considered and systematic approaches to picture making towards knowing a place. Seeing topographic photographs produced through these processes can imbue the world in its stillness with a kind of mystery and wonder, qualities that may intensify as time between making and viewing increases. Topographic photographs can be both accurate visual records and contemplative, evocative pictures that stimulate the imagination.

Topographic photographs, historical or contemporary, can demonstrate certain ways of framing land inherited from landscape painting. Aesthetic ideas such as the picturesque and the sublime, have informed thinking of what a landscape is and how we look at it. These ideas formed a basis for early landscape photography as well as recent critical and reflective practices dealing with how land today might be inhabited and depicted. Picturesque is a word of Italian origin referring to the view of a painter. It developed as a theory around 1730 and took various forms over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in poetry and literature to drawing and painting. Early tourists on what were known as Grand Tours decorated their homes with paintings bought from travels to areas around the Mediterranean Sea. These paintings influenced landscape designers in creating country gardens intended to resemble the paintings. As pictures became a basis for landscape gardens, the usual expectation that pictures represent an already existing world was reversed; the world itself became organised according to pictures.

The picturesque is a complex, changing and multi-layered idea. Malcolm Andrews proposes the picturesque involved an attitude that anticipated photography. Picturesque thinking appreciates landscape as resembling known works of art, but at the same time, appreciates natural scenery remote from art and artifice. It favours order and celebrates the wild and spontaneous. The picturesque domesticates the uncultivated, familiarises and commodifies. The process of framing views, integral to picturesque imagining, involved the use of pre-photographic optical devices that included the Claude Glass; a compact hand held tinted mirror, the Camera Obscura; a dark box, and the Camera Lucida; a lens that focused a view onto paper for drawing.

Photographers working across a broad historical trajectory, including Benjamin Brecknell Turner in the nineteenth century, and more recently, Keith Arnatt, John Kippin, Ingrid Pollard and Emma Wieslander reference the picturesque in different ways in their work, as influence, comment and critique. The artist Peter Kennard, known for politically motivated photomontages, reworked a reproduction of John Constable's famous landscape painting. In Haywain with Cruise Missiles, a picture of the East Anglian countryside that became a national symbol is repurposed to include military presence in rural landscape and comment upon wider cold war era geopolitics. The Virtues and the Delights, by Karen Knorr, considers the picturesque as a point of convergence for rethinking history, landscape aesthetics and the situation of women in an essentially male order.

By contrast and in relation is the sublime, developed as an idea during the eighteenth century. The sublime stimulates emotional effects, explained recently by Simon Morley as those of awe and wonder, instilled through pictures by aspects of the natural world that include mountains, avalanches, waterfalls and storms as well as the infinite horizons of oceans and the vast expanse of clear night skies. The experience of the sublime today is perhaps more likely to be produced through the effects of globalising economies and advanced information communication technologies, encountering the incomprehensible and unknown as potentially threatening environments.

The famous work of Ansel Adams is perhaps the most well-known example of landscape photography from the late modern era considered to evoke the sublime, depicting nature as spectacular and miraculous. Postmodern approaches to the sublime can retain a sense of awe but refuse the kinds of thinking about nature related to eighteenth century ideas of reason and divinity. Alix Ohlin and David Bate describe the work of Andreas Gursky in relation to the contemporary sublime; land marked by the effects of a global economy and advanced technology through pictures made using aspects of those very technologies. Often seductively beautiful and precisely composed, Gursky's pictures can be awe-inspiring and unsettling. The Picturesque and Sublime are latent ideas of the landscape picture that can be manifest in a variety of ways as a photograph. Both historical and contemporary, they influence seeing and feeling about landscape and can be reference points for critically focused practices.

Working with territories long associated with sublime awe and wonder, Dan Holdsworth, in the series Continuous Topography examines geological features using scientific methods, employing advanced remote geo-mapping imaging technologies. The work incorporates imagery of mountain strata situated beneath visible surfaces, and through aerial positioning, offers points of view and imagery that could be considered to exceed human time and place. The work of Beate Gütschow engages the picturesque using contemporary digital technologies. Landscape in Gütschow's HC work is observed and assembled with photographs made in direct encounter with environments, then subsequently combined as montages that retain an illusion of pictorial coherence. Subtle alterations in perspective and scale are involved that create uncanny sensations. The sense of unease in these works is produced through correspondence between form and content; depicting places that seem somehow both ancient and modern, strangely familiar and therefore unsettling. Questions of belonging and alienation are evoked, but ultimately left unresolved. Pictures made from combined analogue imagery, or using advanced digital technologies and algorithms, exceed certain limits of individual and subjective perception, disrupt and de-centre human perspective and suggest alternatives to anthropocentric single points of view.

The depiction of urban landscape, town or cityscape involves approaches related to and distinct from traditional aesthetic categories of landscape. The viewpoints of urban landscape photographs can range from high vantage points to the more immediately encountered city where potential pictures are discovered by views from transport networks or by walking. Works by Eugene Atget, Berenice Abbot, Gabriele Basilico and Thomas Struth are among the most influential urban landscape photographs.

In Dana Ariel's De-listed, the city is explored through a series of images composed from incidental views of different architectural structures in relation to each other and to their surroundings. There is an intimacy and sense of encounter to the work. Seemingly far from famous urban landmarks, the work focusses upon views of modest domestic buildings and elements of their surroundings. A quotation from correspondence with English Heritage accompanies the photographs that makes reference to a record of previously listed London buildings; those removed from the list over a ten-year period, the incompleteness of the list, and reasons for which de-listing takes place to be unknown. The work can therefore read as a reflection on how the architecture of a city is valued as heritage and visible from points of view taken by walking, and upon photography itself as fragmentary and incomplete. At the centre of London Dust by Rut Blees Luxemburg is an abandoned site of an incomplete building, a kind of future ruin described by the artist as a 'failed object of an incomplete dream'. The modern city is a site of continuous architectural transformation, driven by capital and realised through large scale photographs that incorporate the seductive imagery of projected so-called luxury living and traces of the detritus of contemporary urban construction necessary in its realisation. Within the photographs, publicly visible computer-generated imagery printed onto temporary walls concealing construction sites, create impressions of anticipated buildings. The city in this work is a banal everyday reality and a complex fantasy.

Approaches to making visible the kind of places situated between urban and rural environments can be as varied and uneasily defined as those barely noticed but ubiquitous places themselves. Jason Orton's photographs in The New English Landscape concentrate attention upon the disrupted topography of the river Thames foreshore and the islands and estuaries of its north-eastern coastal peninsula. These photographs are explorative in their precise selection of views of a range of locations with complex interconnections, each involving consistent structure, distance and proximity. Foreground and background elements include riverbank and woodland, fields, hedges and less easily defined spaces at the very edges of the city. They include ruins and remains of agricultural and maritime industry and modern transport infrastructure.

In Zone of Transit, artist Peter Ainsworth used spaces on the peripheries of urban environments; flyovers, or the areas of land around retail parks as a studio. Inspired by JG Ballard's novel Concrete Island in which a central character is stranded between intersecting motorways after a car crash, large scale photographs made in these spaces depict pockmarked, scuffed and stained concrete surfaces. In Passing by Susan Trangmar exercises attention to a specific, environmentally fragile coastal location where suburban and rural places meet and entangle. Moving image and sound as spoken text bring together different features of place and time, organic and non-organic, creating a multisensory experience of place. Accidental Topographies by Corinne Silva depicts abandoned quarries, gated housing, theme parks and golf resorts, some in partially completed construction around a city in south eastern Spain. These pictures show places situated at a continental territorial threshold containing often extreme historic, social and economic divisions.

Recent work concentrating upon non-human habitats includes A Certain Movement by Sam Laughlin. In pictures including elements of remote environments featuring animal habitats and some of the visible traces of animal behaviour they contain, landscape can be considered not only as place; but as a set of environmental processes with multiple actors. A particular monochrome aesthetic produced in the printing of the work creates a tonal range forming a tension between surface and depth. Each of these works invite different kinds of reflection on inorganic and organic structures and bodies, on the significance of marks made by their interactions, and on a world where humans are not always central to relations between things.

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Built Worlds: Photography, landscape and different natures

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In this essay, artist and senior lecturer Fergus Heron explores the rich relationship between landscape and photography

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Alchemic approach to mixed media printmaking: Use of Meditation, Visualisation, Shamanic Journeying and Ritual to access 'Otherworlds' through the concept of 'Awen' the creative flow of inspiration. I have given research talks and delivered workshops which explore the concept of the 'Enspirited Landscape', where liminal times (dawn and dusk) and liminal spaces (edges of territory) become portals to deepen our connection with Nature.

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Performance, Prop, Photography, Lost land

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identity, photography, Northern Ireland, conflict

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Martin Seeds Violence Religion Injustice Death 2

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Graphic Design, publishing, editing, making public

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Collaboration, art activism, cultural translation, wellbeing

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Activism (animation as an awareness raising tool)

Commentary (cultural commentary)

Feminism (presenting the female lens)

Queer (queer representation - telling the stories that are not usually told)

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Practice as research into how stories from around the world develop my art teaching practice

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Collecting. Design Activities. Publishing. Engagement 

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Death, music, media, ethics

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The use of the myriorama as an example of non-linear narrative.

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The use of the myriorama as an example of non-linear narrative.

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For a journalism session I ask students to deconstruct and then construct music-based obituaries using ethical best practice and critical discourse analysis which I use in my own research. I've included an obituary of my wonderful friend and music journalist, Fred Dellar who died recently.

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Within popular music, the writer and journalist Fred Dellar, who has died aged 89, was regarded as the king of trivia; for 40 years he wrote fact-filled columns for New Musical Express and Mojo, as well as authoring several books. Part of his success was down to taking his work seriously and adding gentle humour. The little details could build up a creditable picture of a performer or the way the industry worked. He knew how to maintain interest so that the reader would move effortlessly from one paragraph to the next.

Dellar joined the NME in 1972, at the age of 40, having been made redundant from his day job at a print distribution company. Looking for work, he saw an NME ad for a single, young reporter living in London. He was neither single nor young and lived in Northampton, but he applied.

The NME was losing readers, mostly to a revamped Melody Maker. When its new editor, Alan Smith, asked him in the interview how to improve circulation, Dellar said that the paper should steal a lead on the opposition. There was a time-lag between US and UK releases, so why not run an imports column? Why not say what performers were doing in the studio? Why ignore cassette releases when there was an advertising opportunity?

Although he did not get the staff job (that went to Tony Tyler, later NME's assistant editor), Dellar was allocated three weekly columns, each paying £7 a time. What he did not know was that Smith had been given three months to improve the circulation or the title would be dropped, but the overhaul did the trick. Dellar wrote for the NME for 24 years, often highlighting his knowledge under the title Fred Fact.

The NME became a home for radical journalism and championed punk in the mid-70s. Despite being twice the age of many of his fellow journalists, Dellar settled in alongside Charles Shaar Murray, Tony Parsons and Julie Burchill. He would type Nick Kent 's copy and ring record shops to compile the weekly charts.

In 1981 Dellar wrote The NME Guide to Rock Cinema. He appreciated the fact that great performances had been captured on film but despaired of cheap production values and the desire to make a quick buck.

As a young man, Fred Dellar got interested in jazz, ran a Frank Sinatra fanzine and got the printers' union Sogat to run record reviews in its newsletter

He followed this with The Illustrated History of Country Music (1982), compiled with his cousin Roy Thompson, which drew no demarcation lines between genres. "Like punk, country music has its roots in the 1950s and I love the fact that it keeps going back to Hank Williams and George Jones. They are like Bessie Smith or Louis Armstrong. They are part of tradition, but they are still part of today."

Kevin McManus, who wrote for the NME in the 1980s, learned that Fred Fact was the most read part of the paper, but "didn't see much of Fred," he recalled, "because the NME wasn't like a normal office. People would drift in when they felt like it. Fred was never late with his copy but it would often be faxed or sent by Red Star at the last minute."

When Dellar wrote for Smash Hits in the 1980s, he started compiling crosswords and he was to produce them for many publications, notably the film magazine Empire. "I thought I had a foothold in the Times," said Dellar, "but I made a couple of silly mistakes." He found a new home with Time Machine and then "Ask Fred" pages for Mojo from 1996. He was so dedicated to answering questions that many readers received individual replies.

Dellar was born in Willesden, north-west London, where his father, who had fought in the first world war, ran a fish and chip shop. His grandfather had been a piano tuner and his mother played the instrument, which inspired a love for music. "I did have piano lessons but the teacher died a month later," Dellar drily remarked.

He was evacuated during the second world war to Somerset and Yorkshire and won a scholarship to Willesden School of Art. He developed a passion for art history and for jazz, passing on his enthusiasm by talking and playing records at youth clubs. When he was conscripted, he was based in secret work at RAF Bomber Command at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

In 1951 Dellar started work as a cost clerk in a factory. He attended many notable concerts including Hoagy Carmichael, Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra, and built up a friendship with the local jazz promoter Bix Curtis. He compiled a Frank Sinatra fanzine, Perfectly Frank. When he married his wife, Pam, in 1958, she knew she had married someone who would disappear for hours on his bicycle looking for rare records in bric-a-brac shops.

Fred Dellar discussing his time on NME in a UK Rock History interview

In 1964 Dellar began working for a distribution company, the Book Centre. He persuaded the printers' union Sogat to run record reviews in its newsletter. The record producer Ken Barnes also recommended him to a national magazine, Hi-Fi News.

Although Dellar read the music press, he felt something was lacking, once telling me, "Newspapers and magazines would often reprint press handouts. They didn't want to upset record companies and they wouldn't say anything controversial. You could be the worst performer in the world and fall off the stage drunk but the articles would say what a wonderful artist you are."

When Dellar was made redundant from the Book Centre in 1971, the couple moved from London to Northampton where mortgage payments would be lower. He kept his files in the garden shed. The following year he began writing for the NME.

Commenting on his life's work, he told the National Sound Archive, "It's a hobby, but the whole thing has been a hobby from the start." In later years, Dellar gave both old features and new material to the website Rock's Back Pages.

He spent his last years nursing Pam, who became housebound. She died in 2020 and he is survived by their son, Glenn.

Fred Dellar, music journalist and author, born 29 May 1931; died 15 May 2021

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Within popular music, the writer and journalist Fred Dellar, who has died aged 89, was regarded as the king of trivia; for 40 years he wrote fact-filled columns for New Musical Express and Mojo, as well as authoring several books. Part of his success was down to taking his work seriously and adding gentle humour.

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wood work
woodland
wrecks
rivers

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Busting the canon

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Practical

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sport journalism, digital, disruption, professionalism

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Drawing, well-being, making, mindfulness

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Collectarium is a publishing platform that creates design activities and collections to engage audiences into new ways of seeing – the platform is a resource to be used within our teaching practice – our teaching has informed our research practice 

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Collectarium is a publishing platform that creates design activities and collections to engage audiences into new ways of seeing – the platform is a resource to be used within our teaching practice – our teaching has informed our research practice 

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Collectarium is a publishing platform that creates design activities and documents how these engage audiences into new ways of seeing.

Founders Allyson Waller and Sophie Beard are both graphic designers and university lecturers. They first met at Central Saint Martins on their BA then later started working together at the Royal College of Art whilst studying on the MA Communication Art & Design.

This website acts as a repository for each of Collectarium's individual collections. The process of collecting, sorting and categorising allows new ideas to emerge.

Supported by University of Brighton School of Art, Research and Enterprise.

© Collectarium 2021

Contact collecting@collectarium.co.uk

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Collectarium is a publishing platform that creates design activities and documents how these engage audiences into new ways of seeing. Founders Allyson Waller and Sophie Beard are both graphic designers and university lecturers. They first met at Central Saint Martins on their BA then later started working together at the Royal College of Art whilst studying on the MA Communication Art & Design.

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I organised an event which was student-staff printmaking project that was between universities in Japan, Bangkok and Brighton. Staff and students making images that were shown in all three countries with workshops and symposia. Research, practice-based research methods are other examples. Also link to in the role as Director of CORE and as Associate Dean is about facilitation of the linkages between research and teaching

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1/2 of the womxn collective Open Practice,  a graphic design studio that explores different modes of collaboration through designing, writing, editing, teaching, organising and researching. Currently we are working with MA Graphic Media Design students at LCC on A Line Which Forms a Volume issue 5 to publish their graphic design research. https://open-practice.co.uk/

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Craft Practice, Technology, Transience, Serendipity

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Research asks students to think deeply about what 'professional sport journalism' means and helps them to engage with its democratic purpose and principles of public service/interest rather than thinking about information, content and storytelling as forms of entertainment

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Music, Community, Recovery

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Students collaborate with scientists: deepening understanding for research, interviews conducted linked to dissertation subjects

Linked work placements across subject areas

Teach processes (new technologies and analogue processes) linked to research, integrate findings - theory and practice sessions

Students explore interdisciplinary practice and collaboration

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Very much enjoyed meeting Jeremy Radvan and Kate Jessop in our group, sharing work-  Lucia 

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Very much enjoyed meeting Jeremy Radvan and Kate Jessop in our group, sharing work-  Lucia 

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performance, embodiment, analogue&digital, moving image