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Curriculum Activisms

Curriculum Activisms: Ethics & Care in Practice – roundtable discussion

Amita Nijhawan (chair), Zuleika Lebow, Cally Blackman, Tegan Rush and Alex Parkin take part in a roundtable discussion about ethics, student agency, compassionate teaching, and the changes they would like to see in their various industries.

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Curriculum Activisms

Curriculum Activisms: Ethics & Care in Practice – Creative Unions case study

Kieran Mahon and CSM students Mitali Atkins, Alexis Grigoriou and Olga Peral I Perez talk us through the socially engaged practices and ethical questions they encountered on Creative Unions, CSM’s collaborative unit across undergraduate courses.

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Curriculum Activisms

Curriculum Activisms: Ethics & Care in Practice – Jeremy and Rathna’s opening remarks

Jeremy Till and Rathna Ramanathan open the second Curriculum Activisms with their thoughts and reflections on ethics and care.

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Curriculum Activisms Learning & Teaching

Curriculum Activisms – Global Fashion Perspectives: a roundtable discussion

With permission from participating students and staff and unit founder Cally Blackman, we are very happy to share a recording of: Global Fashion Perspectives: a roundtable discussion (click to visit video on Panopto) [Closed Captions are available on Panopto – click the CC button on the player.] The event is led by year 2 student […]

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Digital Tools Learning & Teaching

In Practice: Blended learning on MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise

What is MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise?  MA ACE is a blended learning course developed at Central Saint Martins. Started in 2015, it offers both the benefits of face-to-face study and the flexibility of online learning. It is currently being taught to two cohorts, one in the United Kingdom and one in Hong Kong. What […]

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Digital Tools In Practice Learning & Teaching

Storytelling workshop: Using Teams and Miro to emulate studio teaching

Graphic Communication Design: Using Teams and Miro to emulate a collaborative design studio workshop This workshop is based on face to face studio activity that has since been adapted to online delivery. Miro provided the collaborative working ‘studio’ space while Teams enabled tutors and students to verbally communicate. Students worked on the same Miro document […]

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Curriculum Activisms Learning & Teaching

Curriculum Activisms: Global Perspectives on BA Fashion Communication

Introduction  Cally Blackman is Stage 1 Leader on BA Fashion Communication at CSM. With 2nd year students, Cally facilitates a project called Global Perspectives, with the aim of decentring the curriculum and encouraging students to take the lead with their research interests.  Provoking thinking and exploration through museums and exhibitions  In previous years, the project has incorporated museum and exhibition visits, such as:  The Multaka-Oxford tours […]

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Facilitating Access Learning & Teaching

Translation as creation – what I’ve learnt from image descriptions

In Facilitating Access, we look at embracing diversity and minimising barriers.  Translation between formats is critical to supporting students and their preferred and necessary learning styles.  One such translation is the task of creating an image description: from the visual into text.  We are given two images and these recommendations for description writing: More detail than an alt-text  Placement of objects or text  Image style  Colours  Names of people or things  Emotions, such as facial expressions  Surroundings  Concise – up to […]

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Facilitating Access Learning & Teaching

Introduction: translating between formats

What is translation between formats? If we translate between formats, we ensure that information or content is available in more than one format. We may provide the translations ourselves, or we may use resources that are already translated (e.g. YouTube videos that have closed captions). Here are some examples: If we link to a podcast […]

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Curriculum Activisms Learning & Teaching

GCD’s Depth of Field series: Coffee, Cocoa and Sugar with Kelly Walters and Anoushka Khandwala

Full captions are available. Please press the ‘Subtitles/Closed Captions’ button on the YouTube player above. In this year’s Depth of Field series, the Graphic Communication Design programme have opened their lectures to the public for the first time. The aim of the series is to open up space for considering the most urgent and relevant […]