teachers and learners and other fixtures and fittings

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teachers and learners and other fixtures and
fittings

• fred meller
• Senior Lecturer B.A. Performance Design and
  Practice
• Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design

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How tutors and students define, reconfigure and
utilise their teaching and learning spaces. A
look at the physical relationships between
participant, discipline, and action. What are
the signposts, landmarks and unexpected road
works to look out for?
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teaching landscapes in the creative arts

• What is distinctive in the teaching and learning
  practices in the disciplines of Fine Art Graphic
  Design Fashion Product Design and performance
  design
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• What explanations are there for these
  distinctive characteristics?
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• What is the significance of teaching and
  learning spaces in relation to these distinctive
  practices in the disciplines studied?
• What are the implications for policy and
  practice for the institution, departments and
  individual staff in these disciplines?

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• student
• tutor
• space
• discipline

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to line up the shoes
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valuable
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messy in the right kind of way
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barriers
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empty space

• what is this space for?
• what observations can I make?
• what is useful about the space?
• what could go on here?
• what would I do here?
• what would I change?

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from the Landscapes project

• home base student desk studio
• seminar tutorial
• workshop
• presentation gallery

• thinking
• talking
• making
• showing

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space

• what types of space
• what is in the spaces we use
• what is the space between things
• who controls the space
• can we share space
• draw a map of a teaching and learning space you
  know

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Space

• space is not always aligned to action
  (discipline) and artefact
• space is intrinsically linked to Tutor and
  Student and discipline
• discipline is a factor in the intervention of
  space