Vital to my research topic is the link between the physical, the mental and the emotional; the link between physical sensations, feelings and emotions. Hearing Timothy Morton talking about the importance of feelings and the need to be guided by them, was therefore valid and interesting to me. Around 14 mins in, he even took …
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I am catching up with putting my hand-written notes on my blog, on the reading I have done so far. Prior to our first SiP Workshop I read Jean McNiff’s “What is Action Research”. This was interesting. I am working on the MA Applied Imagination in the Creative Industries, and the research methodology of this …
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I had my first SiP tutorial today, with John O’Reilly and another participant, Richard Parry. It was a very fruitful session and I am left with a lot to think about. The lively discussions gave me plenty of ideas, and themes came up that I want to consider more: e.g. the concept of ‘rewilding’ – …
On 13th January 2021 we had our first SiP Workshop with Catherine Smith and John O’Reilly. During the day we worked through various tasks and touched on a variety of topics. Two of these I will certainly cover in further blog posts and will research more: research methods and ethical considerations. We also created a …
I have currently two roles, two professions. One is being an Associate Lecturer at CSM, the other being a cognitive behavioural hypnotherapist. In both roles I had to shift my work online since April 2020. When thinking about an idea for the SiP I reflected on what has happened recently in both my professional roles, …
For last Monday, 13th July 2020, each of us had to prepare an 8 minutes long microteaching session featuring an object-based learning activity. To prepare for this I read this text by Kirsten Hardie, which had some great ideas in it: https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/system/files/kirsten_hardie.pdf However I had to think of a way how to adapt an object-based …
On Tuesday, 25th February, I observed Simon Kinneir teaching students at the Interior and Spatial Design department at Chelsea. The section I observed was divided in two parts: Part 1: The first half hour of the observation was a group tutorial with three students and two lecturers, Astrid and Simon. The students each presented their …
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We started off with discussing some quotes of the Vilhauer text in smaller groups. I thought to myself “Oh, I am ready for this and I have quite a few things I see critically here” – if you read my last blog post you know what I mean. However the quotes that were chosen actually …
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(I wrote this post ahead of yesterday’s seminar. The myblog.arts.ac.uk site had been down on Sunday though, so therefore I have only been able to upload it now.) The Teaching Excellence Framework: Short Guide Monica Vilhauer 2010: Understanding Art In preparation for the full cohort seminar tomorrow, Monday, 17th Feb, I have read the TEF …
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Today Billy (Anastasios Kiosoglou) came to observe me at Central Saint Martins. I will add my OB1 form to the dashboard and I have also provided Billy with the OB1 form as well as the project brief. I am currently working with a small group of students, five students of our MA Applied Imagination in …