Discussion


Intro

DISCUSSION presents projects developed by the UAL teams who agreed to participate in the CoR conclusive experiment. The idea is to consider them not only for what their main aim is, but also, and mainly, for what their social effect is. And in particular, for the kind of encounters between people and between people and places they directly or indirectly generate. This last point has been specifically discussed in the seminar Weaving People and Places, 1 July 2016, at Central Saint Martin. In this seminar the 13 projects and their results have been presented and discussed with a selected group of invited discussants.

For each project 3 texts are proposed: (1) project short presentation; (2); comment on the project role in the community-in-place building process; (3) comment, by project team members and external guest discussants, on the kind of encounters generated by the project generated.


Participants

Presenters

Dilys Williams with Renee Cuoco

Nick Bell with Fabiane Lee-Perrella

David Cross

Becky Earley with Bridget Harvey

Marsha Bradfield

Neil Cummings

Anne Eggebert

Lorraine Gamman with Adam Thorpe

Angela Hodgson-Teall

Whitney McVeigh

Jane Penty

Alison Prendiville

Shibboleth Shechter


Discussants

Eddy Adams, EAC Ltd/ Francesca Valsecchi, Tongji University

Jan Stael von Holstein, Tongji University and Hong Kong Polytechnic

Gideon Kossoff, Carnegie Mellon University

Josephine Green, Beyond20

Clare Brass, Royal College of Art

Virginia Tassinari, LUCA School of Arts

Nik Baerten, Pantopicon

Radhika Bynon, Young Foundation

Terry Irwin, Carnegie Mellon University

Emma Barrett, Social Innovation Lab Kent

Carla Cipolla, UFRJ- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Ilpo Koskinen, Hong Kong Polytechnic

Serena Pollastri, Imagination Lancaster

Andrew Simms, New Weather Institute/ University of Sussex


Creating a More Favourable Enabling Ecosystem

Nick Bell and Fabiane Lee-Perrella

Creating a More Favourable Enabling Ecosystem

The weaving of resilient communities-in-place is hampered by the dis-incentivising of preventative behaviours by self-contained public service models structured and resourced in a way that only permits them to act in moments of crisis.

Project summary

Project results

Seminar discussion

Seminar presentation video


Rethinking an Institution

David Cross

RETHINKING AN INSTITUTION

In March 2013, UAL Vice Chancellor Nigel Carrington publicly committed UAL to tackling climate change and helping the transition to a zero carbon society. Recommending rapid action to keep up with the students…

Project summary

Project results

Seminar discussion

Seminar presentation video


Communities of evaluation

Neil Cummings and Marsha Bradfield

Communities of evaluation

We coined the term ‘communities of evaluation’ to help us understand judgement and assessment as social processes. Acts of valuing and devaluing can assemble and organise communities but they can also be divisive.

Project summary

Project results

Seminar discussion (Cummings)

Seminar presentation video (Cummings)

Seminar discussion (Bradfield)

Seminar presentation video (Bradfield)


CSM Mending Workshop

BECKY EARLEY, BRIDGET HARVEY AND LUCY NORRIS

Elastic lives

In her introduction to Mauss’s The Gift (1990), Mary Douglas says the recipient of charity does not ever like the giver, and that “foundations should not confuse their donations with gifts.” She suggests the problem is…

Project summary

Project results

Seminar discussion

Seminar presentation video


Neighbouring and Networks

Anne Eggebert

NEIGHBOURING AND NETWORKS

How can we begin to teach and learn the processes of social art practice? Artists working in this area necessarily begin with a material practice – even the dematerialized takes practice…

Project summary

Project results

Seminar discussion

Seminar presentation video


Carry on Making

Lorraine Gamman and Adam Thorpe

Carry on Making

Why is it so difficult to change ineffective prison systems, many of which if not state funded at enormous cost by the tax payer, would simply go bankrupt and whose rising expenses are in danger of crippling nations?

Project summary

Project results

Seminar discussion

Seminar presentation video


Different cuts from the patterns of art, medicine and life

Angela Hodgson-Teall

CREATING A SENSE OF A RESILIENT COMMUNITY IN THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

My practice was developed initially by exploring the impact of introducing structured drawing activities to staff of a mixed ethnicity hospital community in London to find out whether drawing is a useful tool in the practice of empathy.

Project summary

Project results

Seminar discussion

Seminar presentation video


1000 Coats

WHITNEY MCVEIGH

1000 Coats

Art cultivates, strengthens and opens up lives through making and the telling and reinvention of stories. My research Human Fabric looks at identity, who we are and where we come from and celebrates our…

Project summary

Project results

Seminar discussion

Seminar presentation video


Does good thinking make good doing

Jane Penty

Does good thinking make good doing?

This reflection focuses on some key insights from participant feedback that has led to a re-assessment of my views on the pros and cons of socially motivated curriculum embedded community collaborations for product designers.

Project summary

Project results

Seminar discussion

Seminar presentation video


Alison Prendiville

THE HOME COMMUNITY & LIBRARY: TACIT KNOWLEDGE AND NEW WAYS OF SEEING

The Home Community and Library project was delivered under the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded Public Collaboration Lab – a one year strategic research collaboration between London Borough of Camden, its citizens and the University of the Arts London (UAL).

Project summary

Seminar discussion

Seminar presentation video


Building a creative local ecosystem

Shibboleth Shechter

Millbank stories

Millbank, like many other London neighbourhoods, has suffered from gentrification and social fragmentation. It was the hope of local stakeholders, that Chelsea College of Arts would provide a platform for co-developing creative approaches to…

Project summary

Project results

Seminar discussion

Seminar presentation video


Co-creating a city spectacle: Fashion as facilitator of social ties and forms

Dilys Williams and Renee Cuoco

CO-CREATING A CITY SPECTACLE: FASHION AS FACILITATOR OF SOCIAL TIES AND FORMS

Through our work at Chrisp Street we recognised the value in exploring the city as a location of spectacle, where people and place, form and event, come together to visualize a city’s culture, ethos and habits.

Project summary

Project results

Seminar discussion

Seminar presentation video