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Creative Education as a Creative Sustainable Practice

Wednesday 5th June 2024 all day

This Canvas page is an archive of GSA's 2024 Learning and Teaching conference. The page includes information about the focus of the event, the full conference programme and speakers, as well as recordings of all presentation sessions and workshops.

In total the conference had over 25 sessions on offer including practice sharing sessions, presentations, workshops, keynote speakers, student panel discussion and a collection of posters and artefacts. A total of over 50 speakers from across GSA and the wider Higher Education sector came together from across the world to share their work to enhance and embed sustainable practices in the art and design education.

Please explore this page to learn more about the event and do share with colleagues.

About the conference

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Conference Programme for our 2024 Learning and Teaching Conference titled 'Education as a Creative Sustainable Practice '.

The conference features a wide array of presentation, workshops and practice sharing resources from colleagues across the GSA and the wider art, design and higher education landscape. We have a keynote contributions from Dr Niki Wallace (Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Art) on higher education's role in regenerative design, social and climate justice, a panel discussion with students and alumni exploring their practice as a tool for environmental and social justice and over 20 sessions from staff and students to choose from.

The full conference programme is now available available here: Conference 23-24 Programme and Abstracts

Keynote Speaker: Transitions Towards Climate Justice in the Context of Higher Education

Niki Wallace | Deputy Director (Academic), MA Global Collaborative Design Practice Course Leader, Camberwell College of Arts

For more information about the UAL Embedding Climate, Racial and Social Justice framework see their website.

Student Panel Discussion: Environmental and Social Justice, and our Practice at GSA

Rebecca Xu | Product Design Graduate and 2023, Foulis Medal winner (chair), Zhen Tang | MDes Design Innovation & Service Design, Julia Romer | PhD in Design Innovation & Education, Emma Scarlett | BA Fine Art Photography and Valentina Uribe | BDes/MEDes Product Design

Breakout Session

Recordings for breakout sessions can be found on this archive page.