On Whales Wailing, Dog-eating Dogs, Elehants in the Art and Design Studios, and Octouses and Tentacular Pedagogy – FESCH.TV

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This is a short and bitter-sweet and sour piece was created in response to an invitation as international respondent and provocateur by European consortium FUEL4Design: Future Education and Literacy for Designers, and premiered on 7th June 2022. FUEL4Design is a 3-year  project jointly delivered by the European consortium of leading HEI partners: Oslo School of Architecture and Design (NO), Politecnico di Milano (IT), Elisava (ES) and University of the Arts London (UK). The event, entitled BUILDING PEDAGOGICAL FUTURES IN THE PRESENT: How to imagine an otherwise, showcased powerful provocations by members of the consortium, as well as by other international provocateurs including the outstanding Tanveer Ahmed – Senior Lecturer in Fashion and Race at Central Saint Martins, UAL, and Dr. Kush Patel – Faculty and Head of Studies (MA in Technology and Change) Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design, and Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), India. My own piece drew on ideas from my keynote lecture on Tentacular Pedagogy (which premiered for the European League of Institutes of the Arts’ Teachers Academy /ELIA, a European Network for higher arts education with >300,000 members in 282 institutions in 48 countries Europe, N and S Americas, and Australia and Asia, in November 2021) as well as How to Thrive in 2050 (my commissioned film with ‚adult themes‘ like ’neurofuturism‘ and anti-colonialism which is playing on BBC iplayer). It was delightful to see how the notion of tentacularity has had legs, with fellow provocateurs and participants alike running with the motif and metaphor. See here for transcript and more: