Post-Grad Interest Groups
UAL’s Post-Grad Community supports a growing number of issue-specific, cross-disciplinary interest groups led by postgraduate students and academics.
These groups connect creatives with shared research/practice interests across different specialisms and subject areas.
PhD students have launched interest groups in the past to coincide with exhibitions and symposiums that they have organised under the same theme. Students have also used Interest Groups as a working group towards research or a standalone event or series.
Interest group directory
DRAW
A pan UAL initiative which is focused on interdisciplinary approaches to drawing. Led by UAL academics Kelly Chorpening, Daniel Sturgis and Dr Kimanthi Donkor.
Passagens
An opportunity to meet artists and curators whose work evolves around the themes of migration, social sustainability and the environment. Led by Professor Lucy Orta, Chair of Art for Environment at Centre for Sustainable Fashion, LCF.
Subcultures
What are subcultures? What are their functions and meanings, both historically and contemporarily? And how do subcultural properties survive and thrive? Led by UAL PhD students Kevin Quinn and Ray Kinsella.
Fashion and Ethnicity
The Fashion & Ethnicity Interest Group is a platform to connect students and researchers in how ethnicity intersects with practices of fashion in its broadest sense. Led by PhD Candidates Kadian Gosler, Anushka Tay, and Rawan Maki
Cloop Projects
A platform that designs sustainable fashion education as a tool to challenge current consumption habits, with a specific focus on closing the loop as a response to the negative consequences of the current resource intensive fashion industry. Led by UAL PhD student Lauren Junestrand.
Change Agents
A network for creative minds at UAL who have an active interest in designing for social change. Led by Abbi Fletcher (Post-Grad Community Coordinator).
How can the contemporary arts represent the non-human world?
An opportunity to explore various discourses that relate to art, science and nature. Led by UAL PhD student Richard Crawford.
The Art of Questioning
A Bi-weekly seminar series for PhD students to come together and question what does it mean to have a method and how methodology of your project can be developed and brought to light? Led by Dr Daniel Rubinstein, (Reader in Philosophy and the Image at CSM)
Test Lab
In collaboration with the Doctoral Platform at Central Saint Martins, is an opportunity for PhD students to present papers on any aspect of their research in an informal and discursive setting.
Decolonising Narratives
Explore and discuss some key texts on black history, anti-racist/anti-colonial struggles and decolonisation in higher education. Led by Rahul Patel and Vanessa Ansa (UAL staff members).
African-Caribbean, Asian and African Art in Britain Archive
A Focus on the African-Caribbean, Asian & African Art in Britain Archive, and other Special Collections at Chelsea College of Arts Library. Co-led by library and academic staff.
Womens Voices in the Archive
Texts are selected from key womens’ archives in the UAL Archives and Special Collections Centre, with other texts that discuss feminism and the archive. Led by Georgina Orgill and Karen Di Franco.(Details coming soon).
Memory Threads
Exploring ideas around textiles and memory. Working across art, textiles and science, their sessions are part discussion, part practical. Led by an interdisciplinary group of UAL MA students and alumni.
Circular Design Lab
Part of the Centre for Circular Design's activities, a discussion group for participants with interests in sustainability, circular economies and design as a tool for positive change. - Led by UAL PhD students Cathryn Hall and Laetitia Forst.
BLAME – Brown Leaders and Makers Exist
With aim to 'make the brown feminist maker visible’. Led by Remi Rana Allen (UAL PhD Student)
Interest group stories
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How can we teach inclusivity and accessibility in design schools better?
MA student led creative studio 'on the mend' report back on their Pop Up Common Room event 'Disability in Design' with Do Ju Gosling - Funded by the UAL Post-Grad Community Project Fund.
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CLOOP PROJECTS
Introducing Post-Grad Interest Group 'CLOOP' is a platform that designs sustainable fashion education as a tool to challenge current consumption habits, with a specific focus on closing the loop as a response to the negative consequences of the
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DRAW Yu-Chen Wang
Kat Outten, MAVA Fine Art Digital, Camberwell reports back from the DRAW reading group event with Yu-Chen Wang, a London based artist from Taichung, China.
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THERE AND BACK AGAIN starting from the end
Reporting on the Centre for Circular Design’s three days of talks and workshops, 5th – 8th March 2019.