The Writing-PAD Network

Writing-PAD stands for Writing Purposefully in Art and Design

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• Writing-PAD was launched in 2002 at Goldsmiths, University of London, where it continues to be managed by Julia Lockheart
• It offers its 60 member institutions a creative playground in which to reflect upon ‘thinking through writing’.
• We see these types of writing as an under-explored parallel to the visual discourse in art and design practices.
• Writing-PAD brings together academics from across the disciplines, and from across the roles:
  • i.e. studio staff
  • theory staff
  • learning support staff
  • learning and teaching (L&T) coordinators

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How do we work together?

We have several ways for you to contribute to Writing PAD:

The Writing PAD Wiki

Launched in April 2009, Writing PAD's Network Wiki is to encourage co-writing and co-authorship. It is our vision that as many people as possible can contribute their ideas to this site.

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The Journal of Writing in Creative Practice

You can submit papers to the Journal Writing Creative Practice.

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The Writing PAD Glossary

You can contribute by submitting your own words along with their definitions to the Writing PAD Glossary.

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Short papers for web publishing

We would like to hear how your institution has been influenced or changed by the Writing PAD debates.
We are looking for some new short discussion papers to launch on the new wiki to continue the debate that started way back in 2002.

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Writing PAD Centres

We now have eight official Writing PAD Centres. Each of these Centres will be hosting a Writing PAD event which will be followed by their own themed issue(s) of the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice. Please view the Writing PAD Centre pages below and use the contact addresses to get further information about Writing PAD in your country or region:

For England: -

Writing PAD Centre Midlands Contact George Marks, University of Wolverhampton:
Writing PAD Centre North Contact Susan Orr, York Saint John University:
Writing PAD Centre South Contact Julia Lockheart, Goldsmiths, University of London:

For the South West there is a collaboration between three institutions:

Writing PAD Centre Plymouth Contact Pete Davies: , University of Plymouth;
Writing PAD Centre Falmouth Contact Nancy Roth: , University College Falmouth and
Writing PAD Centre Dartington Contact Jerome Fletcher: , Dartington College of Arts.

For Wales:

Writing PAD Centre Wales Contact Jo Walter, Swansea Metropolitan University:

For Scotland:

Writing PAD Centre Scotland Contact Neil Mulholland, Edinburgh College of Art:

International:

For Ireland:

Writing PAD Centre Ireland Contact David Brancaleone, Limerick College of Art:

For Norway:

Writing PAD Centre Oslo Contact Maziar Raein, KiHO (Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo):

For Australia:

Writing PAD Centre Swinburne Contact Keith Robertson at Swinburne Design, Swinburne University of Technology:

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Writing PAD Debate Papers on the Project Website

You can still visit the Writing PAD project website with the network's papers and student work. It is still worth a visit.

www.writing-pad.ac.uk

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