Global Classroom
Leicester to Lahore
This year invited by Dean SVAD Mr. Rashid Rana I will join the first ever 'Global Classroom' Summer School Programme ran by the Mariam Dawood School of Visual Arts and Design in Lahore, Pakistan.
This year myself and fellow Mind Fashion Collective member Adam Peacock will be offering an individual lecture /workshop to students from anywhere in the world.
Next year I will be hoping to extend this opportunity to a full 6 weeks course!
The Covid-19 lockdown has already allowed many universities to take big strides in making learning a borderless space. I am currently teaching MA fashion,Textile and footwear innovation students from De Montfort University Leicester and Nottingham Trent University via a virtual classroom where many of the students have returned home to different parts of the globe.
Dean Rashid Rana who is said to be Pakistan's leading artist, represented by Lisson Gallery London and previously representing Pakistan at the Venice Design Biennial; talks about the importance of the Global Classroom concept.
Notes from the Dean – 'The term One planet, One Classroom reaches much farther than its simplification in a sentence. It attempts to encompass the breadth of the virtual realm and its consumption into the material world where we as people operating in distant realms, remain no longer distant to teach and learn from each other – in spaces real or imagined.
Zainab S. Barlas -Global Classroom Summer School programme manager, commented 'This is programme redefines teaching'
For me, an important factor of the Global Classroom concept is the richness of dialogue experienced when engaging with students from different cultural backgrounds; both teacher and students can grow and learn a great deal from this exchange.
It has never been feasible to jump on a plane for a one hour lecture, but now a form of teleportation really does exist, so these are exciting times.
Check out the link below to the online catalogue to see the many amazing and unique course available by brilliant academics and practitioners from around the world.
Many are already fully booked! .…….See you in soon in the Global Classroom!
This Years Global Classroom Map
Click on the link for the full online catalogue >> https://glo.bnu.edu.pk/