Doing Studio in a Pandemic: Stories of Digital Collectives and Hybrid Materials in Online Art & Design Education

Description

As an art and design teacher with a 20 year track record, I've taught in many different contexts. The arch of my research has focused on digital technologies, and for most of that time my inquiries were either of a fringe concern or focused on bleeding edge innovations. However, with the pandemic in spring 2020 there has been a radical refashioning of the fall semester of art and design education to the digital. Art and design educators will be grappling with a vastly different landscape of pedagogy this fall and this unconference session will focus on discussing how we navigate the contexts of online education as it hybridizes core practices of studio exploration and material play.

Interaction

In an online art and design class, how does one facilitate or enable explorations in

material play and investigation in process? studio mimesis? shared cultural encounters? collaborative forms of making?

Outcomes

The nature of this unconference session and the discussion that is sought will hopefully impact teaching effectiveness for fall courses. The focus of the conversation will be on impacting pedagogy in online art and design education in particular to how material play and explorations of process may be invigorated, rethought, or hybridized in light of our contemporary moment.