OUR MISSION (4 key aims)
1. To raise consciousness:
- We aim to raise awareness about the need for more appropriate approaches to writing within/for creative studio practices.
- Our members will continue to conduct research into the history and daily practices of writing within art, craft and design.
- According to our research, many traditional academic writing practices within art, design & craft remain underexplored.
- Originally, they were borrowed from disciplines that had learning aims that are incommensurate to those of the creative studio disciplines.
- There remains an under-awareness of certain learning difficulties that are common to art, design and craft students.
- While many individual lecturers and support staff had been addressing the above problems, the majority of their colleagues (and their institutions) tended to remain unaware of their endeavours.
2. To enhance learning
- We aim to provide practical support to the learning community.
- We believe it is important to keep in direct, supportive contact with academic staff and other relevant practitioners.
- We aim to establish symbiotic relationships that, by offering practical help, also facilitates good research.
3. To catalyse innovation
- We aim to promote and conduct research that leads to writing practices that are more effective within the above context.
- We aim to play a leading role in national and international debate and discussion.
- We currently disseminate innovative models (both experimental and tested) via our Journal, JISC-mail and conferences, etc., which reach members in at least 5 continents.
4. To broker change
- We aim to liaise with appropriate academic institutions on how to implement better alternative practices.
- We aim to play a leading role in national and international debate and discussion.
- We believe this can be part of a process by which novel, more effective, models of practice can be implemented within institutions of learning.
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