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… The effective academic and structural alliance
between Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon colleges
(CCW), has created an opportunity for a number
of new and innovative developments in The University
of the Arts London and more broadly within the sphere
of arts education. The creation of the CCW Graduate
School is our first major initiative and reflects an
academic vision that is predicated on profiling and celebrating
the conditions and ethos that characterize these
three specialist art colleges. The rationale of the
Graduate School is founded upon the repu tations and
strong traditions in all three colleges for a well-
established, high quality, postgraduate provision and
mature research cultures that are equally comfortable
and experienced in support ing practice-led and
theoretical-based research in art and design areas.
What the Graduate School brings to the current
postgraduate and research provision is a set of
challenges and questions that address the relationship
of research to the broader academic and cultural
communities, and an assertion that consideration is
given to a broader thematic context that reflects issues
of our time that in turn influences our practices.
There are two key aspects of the Graduate School
that define its distinctiveness: the first is a commitment
to create and maintain a direct relation ship between
research-focused activity and teaching, and a requirement
that all research staff, our professors, readers and
fellows in particular, play an active role in teaching
and supervision, and that their research forms a crucial
aspect of our student learning experience. The second is
the commitment to providing a series of overarching
thematic reference points that form a catalyst for cross-
disciplinary exchange and collaboration, and as a
means of responding to broader social and cultural
agendas that transcend subject-specific concerns. In this
respect for the coming year, we have identified the
three areas of Climate Change, Identities and Technologies
as themes that will be explored in our
Graduate School Festival and at other points during
BRIGHT 1:
CCW GRADUATE SCHOOL
LAUNCH DIRECTORY 2009
the year when we will be bringing together our
research communities and external partners
in focused projects and events. …
Excerpt from the ‘Welcome Note’
by Prof. Chris Wainwright, Head of Colleges
Bright 1: CCW Graduate School Launch Directory 2009
Editor: Chris Wainwright
Assistant Editor: Kate Sedwell
Editorial team: Prof. Oriana Baddeley, Linda Drew,
Kate Sedwell
Specifications: 272 pages, softback, 4 colours throughout
ISBN: 978-9-9558628-1-6
Publication available online from:
http://www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/ccwgraduateschool/
archivesandresources/brightpublications
Critical Practice (CP) is a cluster of artists, researchers,
academics and others supported by the CCW Graduate
School.
Initiated in 2005, CP explores new models of
creative practice and seeks to engage these models in
appropriate public forums, both nationally and
internationally. We have participated in exhibitions
and seminars, conferences, film, concert and other
event programmes. We have worked with archives
and collections, publication, broadcast and other distributive
media, while actively seeking to collaborate.
CP has a long standing interest in art, and public
goods, spaces, services and knowledge, and has
generated a track record of producing original, participatory
events.
Chelsea College of Art and Design has a large,
contemporary courtyard at its heart: the beautiful
Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground. We collaborated
with Polish curator Kuba Szreder to develop a project
that would explore the diverse, contested and vital
conceptions of being in public.
We created a bespoke, temporary structure
designed by award-winning Polish architects Ola
Wasilkowska and Michał Piasecki, within which we
produced a landmark event in an amazing location
with a host of international contributors.
PARADE challenged the lazy, institutionalized
model of knowledge transfer whereby amplified
‘experts’ speak at a passive audience. Our modes of
assembly, our forms of address and the knowledge
we shared were intimately bound.
This is a document of the evolution of PARADE,
and part of its legacy.
Introduction by Critical Practice
BRIGHT 2:
PARADE
Bright 2: PARADE – Public Modes of Assembly
and forms of Address
Editor: Neil Cummings and Critical Practice
Specifications: 176 pages, softback, sections of 2 and
4 colours
ISBN: 978-0-9558628-3-0
Publication available online from:
http://www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/ccwgraduateschool/
archivesandresources/brightpublications
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