We were invited to come and talk to students at UCA Rochester about the Photosculpture project. Current MAFA student Jack Marder and graduate Nicola Lorini ran two workshops. Students learned the basics of capture and processing and produced some great work like this photogrammetric scan by Jodi.

Objects have been used to support teaching and learning since the earliest days of art and design education, but it was not until 2002 that Paris coined the phrase ‘object-centred’ or ‘object-based’ learning. This term is now widely used to describe the process of learning through and from objects.

Within participatory learning environments, objects can stimulate curiosity and ongoing interest. The transaction between the object and the viewer enables meaning construction, while decoding objects develops transferable skills such as critical thinking and communication and can help to develop deeper understanding of one’s own assumptions and beliefs.

This event is part of a series hosted by University of the Arts London, exploring key issues in art and design teaching and learning in higher education. Each event includes leading speakers sharing current thinking in creative education and is designed to be interactive.

We ran a session demonstrating reflectance transformation imaging and photogrammetry and talking about the research led teaching project we have been running at CSM. We took the opportunity to record some moulds from the Unsworth Collection housed at LCC. Tom Allison demonstrated RTI and Harry Moss Badrick made some photogrammetry models.

We visited our collaborators at Camberwell: Bernd Behr, Athanasios Velios and Students from the CCW Digital Derive Group. Students recorded objects from the ILEA Collection based at Camberwell using a variety of capture devices and software.