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Making: Archives/Making: Impact - The Creative use of Archives within Textile Design Education and Practice.
Get PDFThis paper reports on Making: Archives, a 2nd year Falmouth University Textile Design project co-created by Senior Lecturer Hannah Maughan and Senior Archivist Sarah.C.Jane. The project is designed to encourage students to reconnect with primary research materials and physical artefacts to counteract the over-reliance on digital resources, whilst showcasing the potential of archive collections as conceptual and creative stimulus for textile design development and innovation. Falmouth’s Penryn campus houses University of Exeter in Cornwall, creating a unique shared archival service and eclectic range of collections.
The project seeks to challenge the perceived notions of archives, and to promote the Universities often underused archival resources to new audiences (Jane and Maughan 2020).
Expanding on its case study as an exemplar of pedagogic good practice in The National Archives and History UK’s Guide to Collaboration for Archives and Higher Education, (McNauty and O’Rourke 2018) the paper disseminates and reflects on extensive research and data drawn from student participants of the Making:Archives project during its 7 years period, illustrating the breadth of experience, engagement and response, whilst examining in particular the value of using non discipline specific archives and curriculum embedded archival pedagogy.
With the COVID pandemic disrupting the 19/20 cycle mid project, shutting down access to archive and studio workshops, the paper considers the reaction to the specific challenges faced and the emerging opportunities, which subsequently shifts the project’s focus, adapting to an evolved, more inclusive, and diverse iteration. The paper shares perspectives on archive working strategies in the context of education, industry, and archive sectors.
Keywords: Archives Textiles Collaboration Pedagogy Narrative
Shamanic Journey
No full textShamanic Journey is a collaboration between filmmaker Julian Konczak and choreographer Sapphire Sumpter. The film incorporates ancient sites and the wildness of the West Penwith landscape with a choreographed dance sequence unfolding across underground caves and wide-open heaths. The camera remains static, allowing the performance to portray transitions into the archetypal spaces of shamanic journeying – the upper world and lower worlds of compassionate spirits that reveal elements of the soul to the self. The film draws on a distinct visual style that evokes the soul’s existence across multiple worlds and the magical properties of the elements.
Shamanic Journey selected for Kerala Short Film Festival, March 2024
Shamanic Journey selected for Discover Indie Film TV, March 2024
Shamanic Journey, winner of Best Experimental Film at Style Experimental Film and Music Video Festival, February 2024
Shamanic Journey official selection for Rogue Dancer Film Festival, January 2024
Shamanic Journey awarded Best Music Video at Around International Film ARFF Barcelona, December 2023
Shamanic Journey awarded prize for best in southwest EDIFF (Exeter Dance International Film Festival), October 202
Appetite for Sky
Get PDFNarrative, themes, and overall interpretations of an interactive text are heavily dependent on the journey the reader goes through and the choices they make. To aid in understanding how we, as humans, can take the most joy and satisfaction from interactive pieces of fiction, an introduction to the collaboratively-written text 'Appetite for the Sky' discusses the concept of choice, the states of immersion, engagement, and flow, the pleasures of possible worlds, and the safety of surrogate narratives impacting the satisfactory power of reader agency.
The reader of 'Appetite for Sky' can move through the text knowing they are crafting their own adventure. The experience is theirs to savour, theirs to indulge in and, should they wish, theirs to repeat as many times as they continually find meaning. They have the choice to see how each passage builds on the ones selected before and revel in the satisfaction of their journey. And, perhaps most importantly, they may make whichever choices their heart leans to; in this experience they are safe and creative
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