PARTICIPATE members contributed across several sessions at the AMPS Pedagogy 2025 Conference, sharing teaching-led research, collaborative practices, and innovative approaches to art and design pedagogy.
Mary Ikoniadou and Liz Stirling, together with Professor Kiff Bamford (LBU), presented Tear it up and start again: Issues of (non)representation in graphic design beyond the canon. The paper emerged from a module shaped jointly by staff and students, stretching the curriculum beyond narrow male and Anglo-American histories of graphic design, opening space for multiple voices, geographies, and ways of making. Read the abstract: https://amps-research.com/event/pedagogy-2025/schedule/art-design-pedagogies-iii/tear-it-up-and-start-again-issues-of-nonrepresentation/
Ben Dalton (with Beccy Watson, Emil Ankers, and Carol Osborne) examined the collaborative work of the Collage Collective, analysing feminist collage practices and shared workshop methods. Their talk illuminated how the often-hidden maintenance labour of academia mirrors the maintenance work uncovered in studies of representation, identity, and the infrastructures sustaining women’s leisure. Read the abstract: https://amps-research.com/event/pedagogy-2025/schedule/teaching-the-arts/in-leisure-as-in-academia-the-entangled-maintenance-of-collage-collectives
Annie Carpenter (with A. Wilson) presented para-lab, a Manchester-based organisation cultivating slow, open-ended collaboration between scientists and artists. Para-lab creates alternative learning environments that resist outcome-driven pressures and instead nurture reflective, process-led knowledge-making across disciplines. Read the abstract:
https://amps-research.com/event/pedagogy-2025/schedule/art-design-pedagogy/para-lab-a-para-academy-for-cross-disciplinary-exchange-and-learning
Lauren Moriarty, presented Co-Designing Graduates: Optimising Graduate Employability through Co-Design, discussing how a collaborative toolkit created with students and staff from Product Design courses in the UK supported the employability of creative graduates. Read the abstract: https://amps-research.com/event/pedagogy-2025/presenter/l-moriarty/
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