Seeing slowly: embedded visual literacy workshops for fashion & textiles students

Bell, Alexander (2023) Seeing slowly: embedded visual literacy workshops for fashion & textiles students. In: Generative spaces: the creative powers of the art library: ARLIS UK & Ireland Conference 2023, 3 - 5 July 2023, The Forum, Norwich, UK. (Unpublished)

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Seeing Slowly: Embedded Visual Literacy Workshops for Fashion & Textiles Students - Alex Bell (2MB)

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Creators:

Bell, Alexander

Description/Abstract:

This lightning talk presented successes and challenges to learning and pedagogy, learnt through the delivery of embedded visual literacy library workshops within higher education Fashion and Textiles courses at the University for the Creative Arts.

Conducting creative and academic research in the disciplines of fashion and textiles requires analysing images, trends, and cultural phenomenon from a multitude of visual and digital sources. Images are rich with detail and subject matter, and they provide a lens through which these students can engage with emerging trends, cultural phenomenon, and historical and social contexts or theories.

Advances in technology and social media mean that higher education fashion and textiles students must also now learn to navigate these areas of research within a highly immersive and fast paced visual culture. Through a series of embedded visual literacy workshops, involving a structured visual analysis framework activity, students are given the dedicated space and time to learn the practice of slow looking. This imparts a way of learning that emphasises patient and immersive attention to information and images. Both in and outside the art library, visual literacy can produce new opportunities for meaning-making and critical thinking that may not be possible though everyday interactions with visual culture.

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Conference or Workshop Item

Date:

3 July 2023

Event Location:

The Forum, Norwich, UK

Uncontrolled Keywords or tags :

art libraries, information literacy, visual literacy, fashion, textiles, librarianship

Schools:

Other Departments > Library & Student Services

Depositing User:

Alexander Bell