Dr Mark Ingham

Biography

Dr Mark Ingham is a Reader in Critical and Nomadic Pedagogies and UAL Senior Teaching Scholar in the Design School at London College of Communication.

For the last two years Mark has been an acting Programme Director for Contextual and Theoretical Studies, Spatial Design Communication, Branding Design Innovation and most recently Graphic Design Communication. His pedagogical and creative research are entangled encounters with: images of thought and memory, rhizomatic and meta-cognitive learning theories, fuzzy narratives and virtual and physical liminal teaching spaces.

Mark completed an AHRB funded practice-led PhD at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2005. He studied BA Sculpture at Chelsea School of Art and Design and then went to the Slade School of Fine Art for his postgraduate studies. He was then awarded the Henry Moore Foundation Fellowship at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts.

He is a visiting lecturer and a PhD Director of Studies and Supervisor at CCW/UAL and at Ravensbourne. He was the Masters Programme Leader in the Architecture, Design and Construction School at the University of Greenwich. He is the External Examiner for the BA Design Cluster and BA Animation at London Metropolitan University, and External Examiner for the Visual Cultures Department at Middlesex University.

Mark has exhibited widely, most recently and installation at Dilston Grove for Cafe Gallery Projects called ‘Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae’. This was funded by an individual grant from the Arts Council of England. He has also exhibited in a group show organised by Curating Video, EPISODE at temporarycontemporary, London, which travelled to Leeds and Miami. His current work, ‘120 Days and Nights of Staggering and Stammering’ continues his interest in the projected image and autobiographical memory.

HIs current art research includes: relationships between autobiographical memory and photography, Deleuzian and Guattarian ideas of ‘becoming rhizomatic’, and the documenting of public sculpture.

His pedagogical research over the past 17 years into the relationships between theory and practice and their roles in art and design disciplines has made me acutely aware of the importance of an holistic approach to art and design education. I have been able to use my knowledge of art and design technical skills, including design and multimedia software, in combination with my practical and theoretical knowledge to give students a full and rounded educational experience. He has an extensive knowledge of art and design practices within historical and contemporary visual and multi-sensory communication cultures and

Keywords:

Critical Pedagogy, Nomadic Pedagogy, Rhizomatic Learning, Assemblages, Installation art, conceptual art, photography, autobiographical memory, fuzzy narratives, sculpture, projected images, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari.