Speakers
Description
Higher education is a priority area for reform globally, as the pandemic has highlighted how postsecondary institutions are fragile and inaccessible, and require reconceptualization to build community resilience and social cohesion for next-generation learners. The purpose of this panel is to explore how arts-sci-tech immersive learning activations operate as iterative, open systems in higher education to productively cultivate student competencies for transformative changes in the 21st century. Our panel discusses discrete and intra-related projects to: 1) identify strategies that facilitate learning continuity and accessibility; 2) pinpoint institutional constraints; and 3) discern digital technologies that urgently address sustainable learning as more equitable, diverse, and inclusive. Together, we address core questions: How do international university student collaborations advance transnational learning partnerships? In what ways do art-science partnerships contribute to decolonizing discourses of creativity and learning? How does technology function to equalize access and transform lifelong learning? Our goal is to enable collaborative, unifying activations as an arts-based blueprint for higher education globally, and we anticipate these articulations contribute to the conditions, practices, products and pedagogies of teaching and learning. A range of formats will be presented: through the visual and performative arts, life writing, as well as traditional approaches to research dissemination.
CV
Anita Sinner
is a Professor of Art Education at The University of British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests include artwork scholarship, international art education, historical perspectives and community teacher education. She works extensively with stories as pedagogic pivots, with particular emphasis on artful inquiry in relation to curriculum studies and social and cultural issues in education. Anita is the lead editor of the Artwork Scholarship book series with co-editor Rita Irwin.
Samia El Sheikh
is a Professor of Art Education, teaching hand weaving and fiber arts, at Helwan University, Egypt since 1982. 2017 to 2022 vice president of InSea. My last achievement is gaining the International Edwin Ziegfeld 2023 award from USSEA. I also received the Mahmoud Elbasiony award of InSEA 2023. Since I received my Ph.D through a channel program between Universities of Helwan and New York in 1993, my research interests have spanned Inservice arts education and fiber arts issues. I am an artist, weaver, researcher, and teacher deeply committed to the arts and education.
Patricia (Trish) Osler
is an artist, art educator and President of the Convergence Initiative, a Montreal-based Art-sci/Sci-art organization dedicated to advancing two-way engagement, mobilizing domain-specific knowledge through collaborative artmaking. Her transdisciplinary research investigates new pedagogies at the nexus of art education and the neuroscience of creativity (NsC), a dynamic field revolutionizing curriculum and practice for the 21st century learner.
Susana Vargas
is the Director of Communications and Digital Strategy at the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art – MAMBO. She holds a teaching position at the Department of Art History at the University of the Andes in Bogotá and pursues independent research. Her interests encompass museum education and digital strategy, the intersection of social media and culture, digital frontiers for museum practice, counter-monuments and pedagogy, as well as arts-based research methods.
Congmao LI
is from Sichuan, China. She is a PhD candidate at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hiroshima University. Her research interests include children’s personality development through art and Dewey's educational theory.
Elly Yazdanpanah, a postdoctoral fellow at The University of British Columbia, adeptly merges art and education with a passion for cultural exploration. Originally from Iran, she holds a Ph.D. in art education from Concordia University, Montreal. Elly, with a background in design and fine art painting, exemplifies a commitment to interdisciplinary experimentation. Her impactful contributions extend to renowned art galleries in Iran and Canada, where she curates and manages exhibitions. Pioneering research delves into walking practices in art museums, unravelling the immersive nature of embodied experiences.
