Materials in Art Symposium - Provisional Date - 28th February, London
Materials and engineering programmes all involve students learning about the
relationships between structure and properties of materials such as metals,
ceramics, polymers and composites. However, they rarely take into account
the aesthetics of use and consumer needs. On the other hand, Art and Design
students develop their practical skills with different materials but rarely
do they understand the properties of those materials in any depth, and
therefore cannot use them to their full potential.
This symposium aims to bring together the expertise of artists, designers,
materials scientists and engineers in order to encourage the disciplines to
work together in enhancing the teaching and learning experience of all of
their students. It aims to enable arts and design lecturers to help their
students gain a better understanding of the materials that they research in
design practice; and to enable materials and engineering lecturers to help
their students to better understand the design process, especially
aesthetics, as well as ways of visualising and representing their data. It
may also be of interest to those who teach / study the science of materials
in art, eg art restoration
We hope that the symposium will lead to the development of further links
between the materials, engineering and the art and design communities
(particularly within HE) thereby encouraging a more balanced set of students
opting to study both disciplines at degree level as well as fostering a
wider creativity within the students emerging from these courses.
A programme for the day is being devised and we would welcome input to this.
Please go to http://www.materials.ac.uk/events/index.asp or contact Ellen on
0151 794 4433
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