Conference/

Studio‑ing as Critical, Creative and Interdisciplinary Pedagogy

Smatterings | MCCT Conference Stream 5

Friday 22 May 2026, 9.00am – 5.30pm
MCCT Conference, University of Warwick
Free to attend

Programme highlights include:

  • Studio‑ing: Disrupting Language
    Provocations and presentations on stutter‑ing, painted conversation, and material dialogue.

  • Studio‑ing: Resisting Uniformity
    Talks and workshops addressing creative futures, writing studios, and alternative educational pathways.

  • Studio‑ing: Creating Commons
    Place‑based, artist‑led approaches to community resilience and the street as studio.

  • Plenary: Studio‑ing: Disrupting, Resisting, Creating

This stream brings together talks, workshops and shared discussion to reflect on studio practice as a critical, creative and interdisciplinary pedagogy.

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More information about session, wider MCCT conference and speakers: https://mcct.margins.org.uk/

Convenors:
Andrew Bracey (University of Lincoln)
Joanne Lee (Sheffield Hallam University)
Danica Maier (Nottingham Trent University)
Laura Onions (University of Wolverhampton)
Maggie Ayliffe (Liverpool John Moores University)

Conference/

PARADOX Fine Art European Forum

30th March - 1st April 2026, National College of Fine Art, Dublin

The 10th PARADOX conference gathering acknowledges, interrogates and responds to the ever-increasing importance of the development of contemporary Fine Art teaching, study, research and practice across the diverse landscape of Fine Art education. It will take account of the exceptional contribution of art and art education to civic life and education; to critical thinking and creative action and to democracy of future societies, whilst considering the interrelated impacts and potentials of fine art, technologies and cultural and creative industries to contour those futures.

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