28 June 2012
This seminar is one of the Higher Education Academy
Discipline Workshop and Seminar Series. It will examine critically the benefits
and restrictions of traditional approaches to established methods of studio
instruction, such as the ‘crit’ and will seek to formulate proposals for new
approaches to studio teaching, to not only maximise the benefits for staff and
students, but also to develop ways to demonstrably use the facilities to their
fullest extent.
Like many other institutions of Art & Design education,
the Cambridge School of Art (CSA) has traditionally prized its studio culture
and the unique learning and teaching possibilities, and the sense of an
academic community, that education
within a studio makes possible. Current pressures on universities to increase
fiscal efficiency (ie teach more students, in less space, with less teaching
and technical staff) combined with currently fashionable notions of a more
commercial – ie customer/seller – relationship between students and teachers,
place the studio system under threat.
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