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Honored to be featured by St. Thomas Aquinas College discussing the power of a multidisciplinary approach in shaping our professional journeys. From graphic designer to professional dancer to educator, working in art direction, non-profit management, design operations management, and now marketing and strategic communications, each role has uniquely contributed to my current career as an innovative leader in the education sector. I think in today’s evolving world, embracing diverse skills and passions can significantly bolster our career paths. By breaking free from a linear career trajectory, we can leverage our varied experiences to create a rich, fulfilling professional background. More on this in an article soon! 🤞🏾 To that end, explore your passions, embrace the skills you’ve learned along the way, and never limit yourself. The world needs your unique perspective! #CareerGrowth #ProfessionalDevelopment #AlumniFeature #MultidisciplinaryApproach #NeverStopLearning

Light Sensitive? Speaking Opportunities: “Education Estates” (London) October 2024 Hopefully someone will speak about these Problems:- ·     Some students and teachers who are light sensitive do not ‘fit’ within a SEND category e.g.: –     an intellectually gifted student who is fatigued by lighting; –     a teacher who cannot tolerate artificial lighting; –     students with migraines triggered by lighting. –     a student with visual perceptual anomalies exacerbated by lighting and ultra-white paper. ·     Some students included in SEND categories may be light sensitive, but their light sensitivity is unrecognised e.g: –     dyslectic students (approx. 50% may be light sensitive), –     those with ADHD whose light sensitivity is unrecognised.   ·     There is no consensual measure for light sensitivity, so identification is problematic. However, –     teachers could simply ask “How difficult do you find it to read under the lighting? See the questionnaire developed by Cortez et al. "Validation of a Photophobia Symptom." Cephalalgia 39, no. 11 (2019): 1445–54. Why do I write from Australia? Because a fifteen-year-old girl in the UK wrote to me hoping that I could do something. Her words “the words are whirling around and vibrating and bullying the words and numbers out of the way” inspired my book cover designer. If someone knows ‘L G’ would they please tell her that I’m doing something (albeit from a distance and as an Australian citizen).

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Today is #InternationalDayofEducation and we're looking at 10 key design principles for higher education spaces 🍎 When designing a higher education space, there are several considerations to keep in mind to establish the right foundation for a teaching environment. These include: 🤸 Flexibility ☕ Comfort 💬 Community space Read our latest article to discover the 10 key design principles for designing higher education spaces ⬇️ #highereducation #educationspace #workspacedesign

The next generation of #servicedesign practitioners can teach us great lessons. Here are 5 tips from Idoia Paucar Herrera on overcoming the complexity of research projects and boosting your motivation when projects get difficult.

I fall into the category of people who actively avoid news channels due to the sheer volume of negative news. The articles I do seek are in relation to student accommodation or Universities, naturally, but even then the rhetoric is incessantly gloomy. So, here is the only positive article I have seen over the past couple of weeks! Where do you go to find the positive news? https://lnkd.in/eTS8j3vp

This news filled my feed the past few days, and I just wanted to offer another perspective on the current state of the Royal College of Art. These rankings are based on reputation which is a lagging indicator of performance. And I think it lags by decades. The RCA's reputation is based on the lifetime work of designers & artists like David Hockney, James Dyson, Thomas Heatherwick, Tracy Emin, Ridley Scott, Barbara Hepworth, etc. I would suggest that this #1 ranking doesn't reflect the current damage done to the RCA studio model. It will take more time for this to be widely understood by other academics and employers, but I'm already hearing from people "I'm worried about my students going there for an MA, is it worth the money?" and "I used to be able to hire anyone from the RCA and they were brilliant, now I have to really do my homework and sift through a lot of work to find the good stuff." The RCA of the past that created this reputation no longer exists because of changes to the funding model, scaling of the student population, changes in teaching and evaluation, etc, etc. Some highlights of the past RCA: 5 staff for maybe 25 students on a course, and multiple weekly 1:1 tutorials with tutors, individual projects. On a two year MA you regularly spent time learning from the 2nd year students, or later sharing what you learned with 1st years... in this way there was a chain of culture and ideas and learning that could be traced all the way back over decades. You heard stories of other students who had been in the studio years before you, these stories were passed down like folklore. The acceptance rate into RCA courses was probably less than 10%, students failed out of the RCA if their work wasn't of a quality. There was no real curriculum, it was all practice based studio work, learning by doing under the close guidance of the master and tutors. Be given a brief, explore, design, get rigorous intense critique, repeat, all while living in this wider bubbling creative culture. Developing your own personal practice in a radical way. So what has changed? In the past 10 years, almost everything. The RCA today: 4 staff for 160+ students on a course. Most of the staff has turned over. Tutorials are run in large groups on group projects. The acceptance rate is probably over 80%, anyone can go to the RCA if they can pay. No one fails, because the RCA needs your student fees. MA's are now only 1 year long, so no overlapping of student years, all culture and generational knowledge is lost. RCA sends professors across the world to pitch and recruit students to pay the high fees to keep the company going. The social media machine has to hype the school to prospective students to keep the courses full. And the quality of the student work has suffered. I hope Christoph Lindner will see the painful realities of the current state, and make the radical changes needed before the current damage further impacts students, staff, and reputation.

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Insider's Guide - Centre for Arts and Technology - In this article we speak to Joshua McIntosh, about the ins and outs of studying at Centre for Arts and Technology in British Columbia, Canada. - https://lnkd.in/gSPpd2mh

Have you seen the most recent report on the creative economy in San Diego? It turns out that artists in our region help to contribute more than $10 billion to the local economy 🤯 - 170,000 jobs supported by creative industries - 71 creative industries ranging from digital media & music to architecture & interior design - 86,990 indirect creative economy jobs - 82,467 direct creative economy jobs Arts education matters.  Growing a future generation that can think creatively matters. We are proud that our teaching artists are part of that impact. They are helping the youth of San Diego develop the skills to make our city a more diverse and cultural place to live. * The second report for the San Diego region was commissioned by the City of San Diego and the San Diego Regional Policy & Innovation Center. It offers insights into San Diego’s creative industries while highlighting trends in its comparative health regionwide. #artseducation #vapa  #sandiegoartseducation #aecsd #artsca