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PRINTMAKING
CONFERENCE:
RESEARCH GROUP
CREATIVIT Y OR
(PROOF)
CONFORMITY?
Creates print-based works of art in collaboration with artists such as Ivor Davies, Terry Setch and Mary Lloyd Jones. Mary has worked with the Group extensively over the past two years and is soon to have a major launch of her digital work at the National Library of Wales, the design and production of which has been in collaboration with the PROOF members.
In January 2007, CSAD hosted a very successful three day international conference called Creativity or Conformity: Building Cultures of Creativity in Higher Education.
CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN CERAMICS This Centre’s wide ranging research includes the preparation of Jeffrey Jones’ book The Studio Potter in Britain due for publication in 2007, the launch of Interpreting Ceramics, a refereed international journal: www.interpretingceramics. com and the Researching Ceramics Online Database: www.researchingceramics. net THE SOCIAL ROLE OF DESIGN RESEARCH GROUP This Group sets out to investigate, develop and propose strategies for the social role of design in a wide variety of situations, including design education, especially in lowincome economies.
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It focused on how the tensions of today’s audit-driven culture with its emphasis on target, is affecting Higher Education when it is widely agreed that students learn best when they are strongly motivated in an open, flexible and creative environment. The conference has provided the impetus for an in-depth study into how best to support this type of teaching.
