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…
Author: Mary Ikoniadou
Awarded: British Academy Small Research Grant
Good news: PARTICIPATE co-lead Dr Mary Ikoniadou, has been awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant for her project Picturing ‘Home’: How Greek-American Illustrated Periodicals Imagined Greece in the 1960s. The project investigates how Greek-American magazines of the 1960s grappled with the tensions of homeland nostalgia, cultural preservation, and integration during a decade of global…
Writing retreat funds awarded to Art Doctor to complete wild swimming films – by Dr Liz Stirling
‘Water must be thought of in terms of the chains of life it supports’ Rachel Carson I have been working on 3 short experimental films to tell the stories of three site-specific water-based ecologies and their endangered biodiversity using the immersive, embodied experience of wild swimming as part of an audio-visual ethnographic methodology. The three…