GLAD-HE 2023 Post-Symposium Publication: Gathering Ourselves.

Power, Jess; O'Boyle, Louise; whitnell, Davina

Abstract

On the back of our 2021 virtual conference ‘Responding, Reframing, Re-thinking: a new era in creative education for our sector’, GLAD (Group for Learning in Art and Design in Higher Education) launched its first post-conference special edition, published by Innovative Practice in Higher Education. Building upon this inaugural publication, and after one of the most challenging periods in higher education (HE) GLAD felt that there was a need for the creative sector to come together to gather their thoughts, experiences, and resources, to explore the future facing opportunities. Organised by the GLAD in partnership with the host institution Central Saint Martins, (University of the Arts London) the art and design sector came together to “gather ourselves”. The symposium held in Sep 2023 was a single day event which encompassed four concurrent strands bring together over 100 participants to discuss current ideas, opportunities, needs, issues and concerns currently being faced across our sector. Through a series of presentations, workshops, posters, panels, Pecha Kucha and interactive activities, subject-specific debates and provocations were showcased. Examples of HE contemporary arts pedagogic research projects, student-staff collaborations and curriculum innovations were presented. We drew out developments and best practice from within the HE creative arts sector specifically in response to innovations and lessons learned from our adaptive approaches to learning and teaching, building on our learning after the pandemic. Our latest publication “gathering ourselves” brings in new perspectives, drawing directly from colleagues’ experiences across art, design and media HE in the post pandemic learning era. It showcases experiential learning in a new light with examples of adaptive approaches for impactful practice, as we learn and grow our creative mindset within the learning and teaching sphere.

• Journal Article Type: Editorial
• Acceptance Date: Apr 24, 2024
• Online Publication Date: Apr 7, 2024
• Deposit Date: May 8, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: May 13, 2024
• Journal: Innovative Practice in Higher Education
• Electronic ISSN: 2044-3315
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Publisher URL: https://journals.staffs.ac.uk/index.php/ipihe/index