Dear Jack and the practitioner researcher forum
I have been working with an action learning set convened by Arts Council
England South West. A group of the foremost practitioners in the field of
socially engaged arts and work with Children and young People specialism. We
have now had 5 days residential and will reconvene on 11th March to decide
the future direction our work together may take, or not?
Since my first studies in Design and Fine Art. The discipline required that
someone embarking on a career as and artist or designer write their own brief
first. This is for a number of reasons primarily because it was considered that a
designer or artist has significant influence in the world by what they bring into
being and that one had to have a clear ethical view or direction in your work in
order to decide the levels of compromise you are willing to accept or not with
a commissioners of your services, process or products. Here responsibility for
bringing work into the world lies jointly between the designer and the
commissioner as embodied values, implicit in the work and explicit in it's use.
In education there are for me extra layers to be considered with regard to
meaning and purpose some of which I hope are clearly stated in the attached.
I offer the attached for any comment and feedback but as a contribution
regarding educational influences and the link between 'Intent' and 'Influence'
With love and best wishes Andy
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