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S1 Assembly, Sheffield on Saturday 5th February 2011
Tayto et Tayto, Dialogue (2005) I am giving a talk entitled ‘Co-op, Co-opt Coup?’ at S1 Assembly, Sheffield on Saturday 5th February 2011. S1 Assembly 11.30 – 12.00. Open studios, viewing of FIFTEEN exhibition, coffee. 12.00 – Introduction: Emma Cocker and Charlotte Morgan SESSION 1 WHY/WHAT/HOW artist led spaces. 12.15 Presentation by Neil Mulholland. COMING […]
'The Pink Flamingo'
While reading the journal article ‘Environmental Histories of Design – Towards a New Research Agenda’ by Kjetil Fallan and Finn Arne Jørgensen, what stood out to me while trying to fathom the pertinence of the topics that the authors were addressing was ‘The Pink Flamingo’ and what it symbolizes. Born and brought up in India, […]
Integrating accredited online courses with MOOCs
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/teaching-matters/integrating-accredited-online-courses-with-moocs/
This week sees the launch of the second instance of the Introduction to Social Research Methods MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on the edX platform. Known as ‘SOCRMx’, this course is free and openly accessible to learners across the globe, and provides eight weeks of stimulating materials related to conducting social science research. The course […]
LiberatEd: challenging the academic establishment to become more diverse, more inclusive, and more critical of historically dominant narratives
Today’s post welcomes student Diva Mukherji, the University’s Black and Minority Ethnic Officer, explaining how LiberatED aims to diversify the curriculum… LiberatEd is an initiative which aims to create an intersectional, inclusive and empowering curriculum at the University of Edinburgh, and is led by the Students’ Association, and its Liberation Campaigns. It also highlights the […]
Spotlight on ELIR: Enhancing the student experience - Reflection and review
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/teaching-matters/enhancing-the-student-experience-reflection-and-review/
This is the first post in the ‘Spotlight on ELIR’ series, which will chart the Enhancement-led Institutional Review (ELIR) that will be taking place in autumn 2020. In this post, Professor Tina Harrison, introduces ELIR, and explains how staff and students can get involved in the review process… ELIR is an external review of the […]
Week 4 Curatorial Commitment
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s2496950_curating-2023-2024sem2/2024/02/07/week-4-curatorial-commitment/
My curatorial commitment Critical thinking towards oneself so that unconscious prejudices can be reviewed Have a relationship with artists as equals and never use their power or influence to force them to associate with them Consider the impact on the environment as important Selecting artworks with an impartial perspective Eliminating dominant voices Being inclusive ・What […]
3. Futuring
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/transparency/2023/11/19/3-futuring/
’By defining and articulating a future we find desirable, we begin to build it.’’ (Bayne and Gallagher, 2021, p.622). Is the future knowable? Is it something we can create? Or something to be feared? Facer, (2014) argues that creating an alternative future should be treated as ‘’a site of radical possibility’’ (p.65). This perspective opens […]
Sites Related Artist
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s2256422_tpg-studio-2021-2022sem1/2022/04/12/sites-related-artist/
https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201206/steve-mcqueen-31262 Steve Mcqueen For his project Blues Before Sunrise, organized by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam this past March, British artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen fitted all 275 lights in the Vondelpark with blue filters (Lee #075, Evening Blue). Suddenly Amsterdam’s equivalent of Central Park was bathed in intense midnight blue each evening and night. Dog […]
First meeting with my client
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s1820797_geoscience-outreach-and-engagement-2021-2022flex/2021/12/17/118/
On Wednesday, I met with two biology teachers from Liberton High School. We discussed the details of my project, such as timings, the year group and class it would be most appropriate for, and the sampling method that would be best for the experiment. Including a careers aspect to my project I was pleased that […]
Late night fast food: why does it taste better after a drunken night out?
We commonly see queues of drunken party-goers outside chip shops late at night, but what is it about this social context that makes those chips taste so good? As someone who doesn’t normally eat chips or go to a takeaway shop, I am interested to know why they are so much more satisfactory when eaten […]
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