Documenting the conceptualisation of “MAKE PIZZA? Stage 1: Design a classroom art game in the classroom and fill in the Miro with information about the process and the idea. I named my kit ‘pizza’ because I understand pizza to be a colourful and very inclusive food that allows the chef to put whatever they want […]

OPEN LEARNING 3 Today’s session continued to relate to the creation of artist work packages and open art teaching, with two artists from the Edinburgh Sculpture Studio who visited the ECA last time. At the beginning of the session we learned a very strange dance. What I describe as ‘strange’ is only strange to me […]

OPEN LEARNING 2 – Documenting the Edinburgh Sculpture Studio Tour This week’s main course was a visit to the Edinburgh Sculpture Studio. There are two main sections: a tour inside the Edinburgh studios and interviews with the artists in residence, and secondly, a taster of three art activities and initial exposure to the artists’ toolkits […]

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“Strange Studies” is the first stage of our study into this major of contemporary art theory, which is introduced in the course introduction on the school website：“Weird Studies” is a scholarly field that doesn’t and can’t exist. The Weird is that which resists any settled explanation or frame of reference. It is the bulging file […]

At the start of the course, I was wary of the heavy “play” component of instruction, which was a new move in education for me. However, this new teaching style has proven to provide me with a very efficient, fascinating, and immersive learning experience. Furthermore, through “face to face” group cooperation, I have received rich ways […]