Torunn Kjolberg on her PhD Research
Date: Wednesday 18th February 2009
Time: 5pm
Venue: The CETLD Room, Grand Parade, University of Brighton
What is the role of research and visual investigations in students’ design process? How do the approaches, sources and methods employed by fashion and textile design students direct their learning experiences?
In this scholarship seminar I will present some of the findings of my research which aims to answer these questions.
I will also explore the process and experience of ‘researching research’ and ‘learning about learning’. This project is in its final stages of data gathering where I have followed a group of students over their first two years of their study. A particular focus has been museums as sources for visual research, where the V&A has formed the central case study.
At the point of transferring from MPhil to PhD I would like to use this seminar as an opportunity to take stock and to examine my experience as a learner, educator and researcher in the context of my research questions. Perhaps most of all I would like this seminar to instigate a discussion about the role of the visual in learning, drawing on the audience’s own experiences in education.
Torunn Kjolberg is in receipt of a PhD studentship award, funded by Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning through Design and the Higher Education Subject Centre for Art, Design and Media.
To register for this event, please e:mail CETLDesign@brighton.ac.uk
