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Ways of Writing in Art and Design
  • ISSN: 1753-5190
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Abstract

As the COVID-19 pandemic gathered momentum in 2020, it became clear that online teaching spaces risked a distancing from the embodied knowledge so necessary to creative education. Teaching written texts to creative practitioners is a process that calls for alternative spatial and visual literacies, for ontological methods, for honouring experience and reflection – especially in a neo-liberal climate of higher education. In my teaching practice, as well as writing and painting practices, I like so many others have sought spaces for nourishment during this era. Through my teaching and a collaborative research group, one space in which I located this was via hope. This is a time to ask if we can use this moment in history to encourage thinking in an untrammelled manner and to move more freely in the unfamiliar, to transform the classroom; to seek materiality as a method of interpretation, even online; to encourage fearlessness, plurality and relationality; to use craft methods; and to enter a space of care and emotional openness. This contribution will consider creative allyship between staff and students, with the written text as a place of beginning. This is a deliberately open-ended, exploratory, personal and reflective piece of writing, gathered during teaching and research from 2020 to 2022. ‘Ways of Writing’ are explored both through the method of this article as well as its content.

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