Tuesday 14 December 2021
Reimaging the Art School: Pandemic Paragogies
- Workshop of paragogic artistic learning at 9:30-14:00 [Onsite only]
- Symposium: Reimaging the Art School: Pandemic Paragogies at 14:30-17:30 [Onsite and online] Link to Youtube here
Host: Professor Magnus Quaife
Venue: Academy of Fine Arts at Uniarts Helsinki (Sörnäisten rantatie 19) and partly online.
Times are in Finnish time (CET +1)
In his 2019 publication, Re-Imagining the Art School, Professor Neil Mulholland proposed ‘paragogic’ methods to re-imagine the art academy. He argued that while art schooling was revolutionised in the early 20th century by the Bauhaus, many art schools are unwittingly recycling the same modernist pedagogical fashions. Stagnating in such traditions, today’s art schools are, Mulholland suggests, blind to recent advances in the scholarship of teaching and learning. As discipline-based education research in art eternally battles the perceived threat of epistemicide, transformative educational practices are rapidly overcoming the perennialism of the art school.
In the book Mulholland developed critical case studies of open source and peer-to-peer methods for re-imagining the art academy (para-academia) and andragogy (paragogy). Since the publication of the book Mulholland has further developed these ideas in to and Open Educational Resource (OER) in response to the challenges Fine Art Education has faced in the pandemic. This OER has been modified and used by several organisations across the world.
For this symposium Mulholland will present these ideas and explore the work he has done since the publication of the book, this will be followed by a research sprint. In the morning attendees will participate in a workshop version of the OER which will be facilitated by Mulholland and Quaife.
Program 14.12.2021
Workshop of paragogic artistic learning [Onsite only]
Venue: Academy of Fine Arts at Uniarts Helsinki (Sörnäisten rantatie 19).
Spaces: White Studio, Lecture rooms K-219 and K-220.
Times are in Finnish time (CET +1)
Using elements of Mulholland’s ‘Shift Work’ project and the Open Education Resources he developed during the pandemic, participants will be invited to join for a workshop of paragogic artistic learning.
9:30–11:30 Workshop starts
11:30 Lunch (not included)
12:30–14:00 Workshop continues
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Symposium: Reimaging the Art School: Pandemic Paragogies [Onsite and online]
Venue: Academy of Fine Arts at Uniarts Helsinki (Sörnäisten rantatie 19).
Space: White Studio.
Times are in Finnish time (CET +1)
14:30–15:15 Keynote: Professor Neil Mulholland: Paragogy and Artistic Learning
15:15 –16:30 Research sprint
16:30 Coffee
16:45–17:15 Q & A
17:15–17:30 Closing statement – Magnus Quaife
Image: Shift/Work [STATIC] Speculations @ Confraternity of Neoflagellants, pan-pan, SAW Video, Ottawa, Canada, November 2019.
