Unspoken Interactions
Exploring the Role of Emotions and Social Interactions in Art and Design Education
This CLIP CETL research project at the University of the Arts London was the result of a collaboration with Dr Noam Austerlitz, International Visiting Research Fellow.
Dr Austerlitz used a participatory action research approach to introduce the outcomes of his PhD research on the role of emotions in the design studio and to raise awareness of the role of emotions and social interactions in art and design pedagogy.
The primary assumption of the project was that students recognise the world around them as whole human beings, thus what is known as their educational experience is actually an accumulation of bodily sensations, intellectual interpretations and the affective domain whilst they are learning.
Unspoken Interactions Background Information (pdf)
Unspoken Interactions Anthology
The CLIP CETL, in association with Dr Noam Austerlitz have produced a collection of selected writings on how theoretical concepts of emotions and social interactions can be incorporated to enhance educational practice in creative disciplines. This anthology brings together the results of a collaborative research process whereby researchers, tutors and support staff in the University of the Arts London reflected on that question and contrasted it with their own experiences of higher education. The result is an assembly of unique papers exploring various aspects of learning, which until recently have been disregarded. On Sale from November 19th 2008! To purchase a copy of the anthology, please complete the booking form.
Unspoken Interactions Symposium
The project's outcomes were disseminated to a wider audience, beyond the immediate art and design context, to those who are working with students in practice based learning contexts through a Symposium, hosted by the CLIP CETL and the University of the Arts London.ADCHE Special Issue on Unspoken Interations (pdf)
An anthology of papers produced by project participants and guested edited by the organsiers of the Symposium was published in 2008 in a special issue of the journal Art Design and Communication in Higher Education Volume 6 Number 3 entitled, 'Unspoken Interactions': exploring emotions and social interactions in art, design and communication in higher education.
