Sign Up Sessions 2 - Day 1 - 14:15 - 15:45

Sessions Available:

There are three options to choose from for the second block of sign-up sessions. The details of all three sessions are below, and you must use the relevant link to register your attendance for your chosen session via Inkpath.

All three sessions run from 14:15 - 15:45.

Panel: Techne and Technology: human and more than human.

Session Details: 

Technē and its corelate technologies, need to be understood as often material and embodied, entangled with "the knots we call beings", with what it is to be human (Haraway 2008: 250)

With each speaker reflecting on their own engagement with technology, this panel session will:

•    Highlight the interplay between Techne and technology within different fields of practice 
•    Examine how human creativity and agency shape and are shaped by both traditional and emerging technologies.
•    Reveal how technology connects humans with more than human entities and 
•    Consider responsibilities and challenges in this interconnected world.

Speakers / Facilitators: 

Professor Trevor Keeble (Chair) is UAL's Pro Vice Chancellor Research Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise. Prior to joining University of the Arts, London, Trevor was Executive Dean of Creative & Cultural Industries and Professor of Design at the University of Portsmouth. Trevor has held a number of senior leadership roles including Executive Dean (Learning, Teaching & Research) at the University for the Creative Arts, and a number of positions in the Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture at Kingston University, London including Head of the School of Art & Design History, and Associate Dean (Academic).

Amy Winters is Assistant Professor, Interactive Matters Cluster, Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology. Amy investigates the transformation of advanced materials into interactive matters. Her research interests include cross-disciplinary practices (HCI, materials science, and design) and the temporal qualities of dynamic materials, including molecular-driven actuators for soft robotics. Amy led the interactive materials studio Rainbow Winters and received her PhD in Textiles (Royal College of Art, London), directing the Textiles Soft Systems MA pathway. She is developing a research line on Material Interaction and leads the Sustainable Soft Robotics theme at the Material Aesthetics Laboratory. 

Johanna Love is an artist, academic and researcher living in London, UK. In 2022 she became Scientific Associate at The Natural History Museum in London and continues to work across fields of art/science. She is interested in making images that operate at the limits of human perception and often invoke ideas of the technological sublime, through print, drawing and photographic languages, often combining all together, using landscape and architectural subject matter, to generate unstable, shifting material surfaces, and visually complex and unfathomable images. Here, the fractured, open and complex images offer an arena within which we can contemplate themes of time, memory and mortality.

Dr. Kayalvizhi Jayavel started her career as a teacher in the year 2001. She has 23 years of expertise in the art of teaching, research and administration. She did her under graduation with specialization in electronics and communication engineering from Madras University and Post graduation with Embedded Systems as specialization from College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University.

She currently works as Course Leader and Senior Lecturer at Creative Computing Institute, University of Arts, London. She is also Honorary Associate Professor at College of Science and Technology, University of Rwanda, Africa. Before that she was Assistant Director, International Relations and Associate Professor in Computer Science at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India.

Mark Peter Wright is a Reader in Critical Sound Practice and Director of CRiSAP (Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice). His practice intersects sound arts, ecology, and experimental pedagogy across exhibition, performance, and publishing. His book Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice is published by Bloomsbury, 2023. 

Sandy Black is Professor of Fashion and Textile Design and Technology in the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. Having previously run her own successful fashion knitwear label, Sandy’s ongoing research projects examine the role of creative entrepreneurship, design and new business models in addressing issues of sustainability in the fashion and textiles sectors. She publishes widely on textiles, fashion and knitwear design intersecting with emerging technology in social and sustainability contexts, and has authored pioneering texts on Sustainable Fashion and the History of Knitwear. Her most recent co-edited book is Accelerating Sustainability in Fashion, Clothing and Textiles ( editors Martin Charter, Bernice Pan and Sandy Black, Routledge 2023).   Sandy is founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Fashion Practice: Design, Creative Process and the Fashion Industry (Taylor and Francis), published since 2009.   She supervises PhD candidates in design-led inter-disciplinary research (fashion, textiles, sustainability, technology, industry,  culture) with 24 completions and 8 current candidates.

"The Object of Research Workshop: Curate and Archive // Visit to LCF Archives Learning Studio

Session Details: 

Come see a selection of objects from the LCF Archives in this session facilitated by doctoral researchers. Discussions will centre on using creative and other research practices to respond to archives and collections, through themes explored in the Congress: craft, ecology, unseen histories, and diasporic and indigenous knowledges.

Speakers / Facilitators: 

The Object of Research Techne Student team: Abbie Vickress, Ellen Nolan, Emma Mitchell, Helen Williams, Izzy Barrett-Lally, Karen Hanrahan, Nick Brown, Oknim Jo, Samantha Dick, Serafina Lee, Tom Railton and Viveca Mellegård.

Dr Alison Green is Reader in Art, Curating and Culture at Central Saint Martins and Director of Doctoral Training and Development at University of the Arts London's Doctoral School. She is a researcher, scholar, writer and educator in the history and theory of art, curating as creative and social practices, and research. Current projects include a book on exhibitions through a critical examination of themes of time and an edited collection of essay on curating and social practice. She is the author of When Artists Curate: Contemporary Art and the Exhibition as Medium (Reaktion Books, 2018).

Joanne Begiato is a Professor of History and Material Culture Studies and Associate Dean of Research at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. She is a historian of bodies, material culture, and emotions. She is leading an AHRC funded project ‘The Victorian Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, and Identity, Past and Present’ (202-28).

Amy Hare is a part-time Techne PhD student at Kingston School of Art where she is researching the craft practice of period costume for film in the 20th century. Amy has presented her work to date at conferences and exhibitions in the US, UK and Italy. She is a founding member of the Making Costume Histories Research Network and a member of the executive board of the Costume Society where she coordinates the Patterns of Fashion competition. Alongside her research activity, Amy is a lecturer in Costume and an admissions tutor at UAL.

Professor Rebecca Fortnum is an artist, writer and academic. She is currently Acting Dean of C School at Central Saint Martins, where she was previously Associate Dean of Research.  Before that she was Head of the School of Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art and has been a Professor of Fine Art at the Royal College of Art and at Middlesex University.

As an artist, she has held an Abbey Award at the British School in Rome, individual awards from the Arts Council of England, the British Council and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and received research funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Career Construction: Through the looking glass? Or have we been here before?' 

Session Details: 

Career Construction is a career theory provides a dynamic perspective to give personal meaning to memories, present experiences, and plans, constructing careers through a sense of meaning and clarifying future directions. In this session, we will learn how career construction theory can help us manage our careers, and be more confident in our working lives. We will do this by analysing previous career transitions we’ve made, understand how we’ve adapted to changing situations, and tell our career stories.  We’ll also look at our role models and where our career ideas have come from to help us understand some of the external influences – or absence of them – on our career management.

Speakers / Facilitators: 

Dr Darcey Gillie is a freelance careers, leadership, and management consultant. A former researcher herself, she has worked at various UK HEIs supporting the career and professional development of research students and research staff for over a decade.  She also trains new entrants into the careers profession, has trained research leaders for the ESRC and at the University of Edinburgh, and is a consultant on EDI, employability, and leadership for the HE sector.