
The transposition to digital: Creative education in online spaces
A co-organised event with

- Adapting the best digital experience for ADM disciplines: The digital playbook
- The virtual studio: Creative constraints or opportunity to innovate?
- Designing socially distanced spaces, studios and classrooms
- Creating virtual community cohesion: Overcoming digital anxiety
- When home is not a learning environment for all
- Creative industries digital skills needs: I’ll tell you what we want, what we really really want!
Please find resources and links in the topic related tabs below taken directly from the ‘chat’ box during the event.
If you would like to receive a link to view the recorded event, available only to CHEAD members, please contact: anna@chead.ac.uk
Session One: Adapting the best digital experience for ADM disciplines: The digital playbook
Online teaching resource: https://www.arts.ac.uk/about-ual/teaching-and-learning-exchange/digital-learning/teaching-online
‘Students like the flexibility’: why online universities are here to stay: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/may/27/students-like-the-flexibility-why-online-universities-are-here-to-stay
Distance Design Education blog: https://distancedesigneducation.com/
Draft version of the Creating Distance Design Education Courses guide: https://distancedesigneducation.com/creating-distance-design-courses/
Guide for Creating Distance Design Courses: https://distancedesigneducation.com/creating-distance-design-courses/
Transformation to digital: Only 1 in 10 say their institution is currently engaged in digital transformation, but most are exploring Dx or preparing a Dx strategy: https://library.educause.edu/resources/2020/6/driving-digital-transformation-in-higher-education
Dave White blog post: Digital Amplification: http://daveowhite.com/digiamp/
Dave White blog post: The Lecture Paradox: http://daveowhite.com/the-lecture-paradox/
Learning from lockdown: harnessing tech to improve the student experience: https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2020/06/22/learning-from-lockdown-harnessing-tech-to-improve-the-student-experience/
The 360* Immersive Fishbowl Webinar Design: https://abasiel.wordpress.com/elearning-r-d/
70:20:10 Webinar Design: abasiel.wordpress.com/2020/05/24/702010-webinar-design
Online communities:
https://theonline.town/
discord.com
https://www.sococo.com/
Mural.com
miro.com
https://spatial.io/#
UAL Creative Attributes Framework: https://www.arts.ac.uk/about-ual/teaching-and-learning-exchange/careers-and-employability/creative-attributes-framework
Session Two: The virtual studio: Creative constraints or opportunity to innovate?
Link to CHEAD infographic and survey: https://chead.ac.uk/members-covid-19-impact-survey-results/
WonkHE Article Let’s lose the deficit language about online education: https://wonkhe.com/blogs/lets-lose-the-deficit-language-about-online-education
https://gladhe.com/covid19
http://theory.cribchronicles.com/2020/06/22/redesign-for-online-3-easy-steps-to-questioning-everything-you-do-as-an-educator/
https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2017/07/12/7-guidelines-effective-teaching-online
https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-14-simple-tips-for-better-online-teaching-133573
Support/care:
https://blog.mahabali.me/educational-technology-2/pedagogy-of-care-covid-19-edition/
https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2020/03/17/10-strategies-support-students-and-help-them-learn-during-coronavirus-crisis
Reflections on fashion graduates’ responses to producing a final collection in lockdown, and the impact of lockdown on the sustainability of the fashion industry:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jun/13/the-waste-and-excess-is-more-visible-how-coronavirus-is-shaking-up-fashion
Crowd sourced case studies of knowledge exchange in arts research
https://www.theculturecapitalexchange.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Knowledge-Sharing-and-Exchange-in-a-Pandemic.pdf
https://playbook.cio.gov/#plays_index_anchor
Recognition of risk and failure is part of the UAL PROCESS assessment criteria: https://www.arts.ac.uk/students/stories/new-assessment-criteria3
Playful Learning Association: http://pla.playthinklearn.net/index.php/2019/07/20/home/
The Digital Creative Attributes Framework: Shared language around valuable digital practices at UAL: https://dcaf.myblog.arts.ac.uk/
Textiles case study: Using kitchen food waste for a textiles project: https://tle.myblog.arts.ac.uk/taking-studio-practices-online-case-study-2/
Maha Bali – Associate Professor of Practice – American University in Cairo (Egypt) talks about 3rd spaces of learning in her presentation (5): https://inclusivelearningdesign.com/webinars/
Session Three: Designing socially distanced spaces, studios and classrooms
ETHO – European Technical Heads Organisation: https://www.aalto.fi/en/school-of-arts-design-and-architecture/etho-2019
COVID-19 Lockdown and the Creative Arts Disciplines: When the hitherto ‘reasonable’ becomes an unrealistic ask: https://chead.ac.uk/covid-19-lockdown-and-the-creative-arts-disciplines-when-the-hitherto-reasonable-becomes-an-unrealistic-ask/
Gallery Oldham – online life drawing sessions: https://galleryoldham.org.uk/event/life-drawing-with-gallery-oldham-digital-drawing/
Session Four: Creating virtual community cohesion: Overcoming digital anxiety
Session Five: When home is not a learning environment for all
Sticky Curriculum
Art and Design Pedagogy in Higher Education, Knowledge, Values and Ambiguity in the Creative Curriculum: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315415130
The Sticky Curriculum in the Art School: https://vimeo.com/287081420
Mama is An Academic Blog: https://mamaisanacademic.wordpress.com/blog/
Azra Naseem on Inclusive learning design, her presentation starts at 38 minutes: Old devices/poor internet: now what? https://inclusivelearningdesign.com/webinars/
Compassionate pedagogy:Vikki Hill with Dr Theo Gilbert: https://tle.myblog.arts.ac.uk/compassion-in-higher-education-vikki-hill-with-dr-theo-gilbert/
Key points regarding supporting students wellbeing in a 6′ video (video no 3): https://inclusivelearningdesign.com/videos/
An Affinity for Asynchronous Learning by Maha Bali / مها با ل , Bard Meier – thoughts about different modes of delivery: https://hybridpedagogy.org/affinity-asynchronous-learning/
Creative COVID-19 blog piece: http://www.creativehecovid.org/blog/creative-higher-education-and-the-home-learning-environment
How to study at home during coronavirus – by online students and tutors: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/mar/26/how-to-study-at-home-during-coronavirus-by-online-students-and-tutors
Student health and well-being resources: University of Edinburgh has creating a dedicated health and wellbeing hub for students: https://www.ed.ac.uk/students/health-wellbeing/health-and-wellbeing-centre @UoEdWellbeing
Session Six: Creative industries digital skills needs: I’ll tell you what we want, what we really really want!
Growing the UK’s creative Industries: https://www.creativeindustriesfederation.com/sites/default/files/2018-12/Creative%20Industries%20Federation%20-%20Growing%20the%20UK’s%20Creative%20Industries.pdf
Impact of COVID-19 on our sector by Matthew Young, Design Council: https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/news-opinion/design-can-help-lead-britain-s-bounce-back-covid-19-economic-threat-huge
The Art in the Artificial: AI and the creative industries: John Davies, NESTA: https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/art-artificial/ & https://www.pec.ac.uk/assets/publications/PEC-and-Nesta-research-report-The-art-in-the-artificial.pdf
Too Fast to Think by Chris Lewis: https://www.teamlewis.com/uk/our-work/too-fast-to-think/
Event Programme
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Hourly Schedule
Sessions
- 10:00 - 10.15
- Introduction
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Speakers:
Nigel Carrington Vice-Chancellor University of the Arts London (UAL)
- 10.15 - 10.40
- Adapting the best digital experience for ADM disciplines: The digital playbook
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Speakers:
David White Head of Digital Learning UAL, Derek Jones Distance Design Education
- 10.45 - 11.10
- The virtual studio: Creative constraints or opportunity to innovate?
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Speakers:
Sharon Tolaini-Sage Associate Professor NUA Women in Games Advisory Board Member and Ambassador Games Art and Design, Sian Hindle Course Director MA Jewellery and Related Products BCU
- 11.15 - 11.40
- Designing socially distanced spaces, studios and classrooms
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Speakers:
Abid Qayum, Richard Trupp Head of Workshops Kingston School of Art
- 11.45 - 12.10
- Creating virtual community cohesion: Overcoming digital anxiety
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Speakers:
Alex Hirst Hoxby, Lizzie Penny Hoxby
- 12.15. - 12.40
- When home is not a learning environment for all
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Speakers:
Jheni Arboine Senior Lecturer Academic Enhancement Model UAL, Sophia Phoca Dean of Art UAL
- 12.45 - 13.15
- Creative industries digital skills needs: I’ll tell you what we want, what we really really want!
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Speakers:
Jack Tindale Manager - Design and Innovation Policy APDIG, Lee Hornsby Partnerships Manager
Speakers
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Abid QayumNottingham Trent University
Abid Qayum has worked in a number of HEI’s and has experience of leading professional services within Art, Design and Architecture. He has recently taken up a new role at Nottingham Trent University to lead all operational, technical and administrative services within the Nottingham School of Art & Design. Previously, Abid was the Head of Technical Services at the Royal College of Art, London. For almost 10 years, he led the team of Technical Specialists that provided support for Art, Design, Communication, Humanities and Architecture. Abid is a specialist in Digital Media and worked as a Creative and Project Manager in various Arts organisations before he joined Higher Education. Prior to joining the RCA, he was the Technical Manager at the London College of Fashion, UAL.
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Alex Hirst Hoxby
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David White Head of Digital Learning UAL
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Derek Jones Distance Design Education
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Education & Skills Creative Industries Federation
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Jack Tindale Manager - Design and Innovation Policy APDIG
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Jheni Arboine Senior Lecturer Academic Enhancement Model UAL
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Lee Hornsby Partnerships Manager
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Lizzie Penny Hoxby
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Nigel Carrington Vice-Chancellor University of the Arts London (UAL)
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Richard Trupp Head of Workshops Kingston School of Art
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Sharon Tolaini-Sage Associate Professor NUA Women in Games Advisory Board Member and Ambassador Games Art and Design
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Sian Hindle Course Director MA Jewellery and Related Products BCU
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Sophia Phoca Dean of Art UAL