The School of Design organises thematic groupings with targeted seminars and input from visiting fellows.

Audience

All staff and post-graduate students are invited to the sessions.

Time

Find specific dates and times in the workshop details listed below.

Session plan

Welcome and workshop 1

Monday 19 March 2007, 6pm

We hope that you can attend a welcome to several new PhD enrolments in the School of Design, including those who have received targeted scholarships.

New candidates include Robert de Giovanni (Head of Fashion at Raffles KvB), Bronwyn Clark-Coolee (formerly AGNSW), and Emily Howes (formerly Object gallery and Craft Victoria).

Approximately eight new and continuing M Des and PhD candidates in the field of fashion and textiles will present their topics in five-minute summaries. Their topics range from 'Renegade Craft and the DIY generation' to 'A Queer reading of First Ladies and Fashion', to 'Textiles for Conflict Situations and Complex Emergencies'. Discussion and drinks will follow.

Workshop 3

27 March 2007, 6pm

Liz Linthicum, Winchester School of Art

Topic: 'Dress and Disability'

Workshop 4

2 April 2007, 6pm

Professor Jo Entwhistle, London College of Fashion - Visiting Fellow, School of Design, UTS

Fashion Studies - Current Perspectives

Workshop 5

30 July 2007, 1pm, room 570 (level 5, building 6)

Professor Raphael Cuir, Visiting Fellow, School of Anatomy and Human Biology in The University of Western Australia, Perth.

Know thyself, art and anatomy : a discontinued history

Workshop 6

15 August 2007, 12-1pm, room 570 (level 5, building 6)

GETTING STARTED - GETTING FINISHED

The PhD is challenging but it is also a privilege as the most research-focussed period of even academic careers. Would you like to meet a student who finished on time? - who had affirming but useful reports? - who published two refereed articles in prominent journals within one year of completion? How did she achieve this? Is it about project management, imagination, tenacity, scaffolding? Meet UTS sessional lecturer Dr Sally Gray (PhD UNSW COFA 2006) for an informal and practical discussion.

Workshop 7

21 August 2007, 3-4pm, room 570 (level 5, building 6)

SHAUN COLE
Arts and Cultural Enterprise Manager (Humanities and Social Sciences), Innovation and Enterprise, Queen Mary, University of London

'Subcultural styles, graphic design and curatorial choices'

Workshop 8

28 August 2007, room 401 (building 6)

Dr NAOMI STEAD (Architecture, UTS)

'Buildings, Photographs, Sculptures: On Medium and Disciplinarity in the work of the Bechers'