21st November 2022

WRITESPACE STUDIO 21st NOVEMBER 2022

Please introduce yourself by telling us where you live (country, city/state/region) and what kind of writing you do.               

James: James, Stockport, UK. Currently writing about design education in 100-word increments.

Hussain: Hussain, joining from Indonesia. I'm currently working on an essay collection.

Vicky: Vicky, in Essex, UK. A historian, plodding along with my second monograph.

Eva: Hi, I am Eva, based in Germany. I am currently co-writing a book chapter on decolonising teacher education in SA.

Anita: Anita in Cape Town, working on a journal paper and preparing conference presentations

Ramón: Ramón from Melbourne, Australia (Wurundjeri land)—originally from Madrid, Spain. I am working on the reviewers' comments of a paper.

Warm up: A recent occasion when you've used an arts-based practice as a way into your academic writing

James:    https://www.are.na/james-corazzo/5-minute-postcards

Vicky: Here's a link to my rubric https://www.dropbox.com/s/x380muw3t874nlm/updated%20creative%20assessment.png?dl=0
I also take my students to Sambourne House, it's quite a place to visit if you are in Kensington https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/museums/sambourne-house

Eva: https://www.helensword.com/making-gallery-posts/my-creative-zine
That is amazing, Vicky. I also try to use creative assessment strategies, such as podcasts. But I like the craft side in your assessment type.

James: @Eva – I really enjoyed looking through your zine. So many interesting ways of thinking about place and education.

Pre-pomodoro: What do you plan to work on?

Hussain: I will work on my essay collection

Hannah: I am hoping to write 500 words of a book chapter (that I've been putting off…)

Vicky: working on a new chapter section

Eva: I will develop a theme or two in the discussion of a draft book chapter.

Anita: A stab at an outline for the journal paper

James: Inspired by Eva's zine, I'm going to have a go at using a metaphor to describe a design education studio – in a hundred words : )

Post-pomodoro: What did you achieve?

Vicky: Had a fairly productive time typing up some of the chapter I had drafted by hand. Re-writing world map: I did some editing on my collection preface.

Anita: I made a diagram of my abstract!

Eva: I added a couple of sentences to the policy analysis of the book chapter.

Ramón: I finished addressing comments from Reviewer 1, which I already started this morning.

Helen: Inspired by James, I quickly wrote 100 drafty words -- more actually -- and then with the 10 minutes left I organised some complicated thoughts using small pieces of paper laid out all over the table

James: I used the metaphor of a bag to describe the design studio. 100 ok words.

Hannah: I wrote about 100 words of this book chapter! Yay (Yes, 500 was way too ambitious, I don't think I'd plugged my brain in) 😄 I think I'm going to have to exit here. Puppy is hyper! Thank you Helen!

WINDOW session:  One thing that you discussed, noticed, or learned.

Vicky: Getting your reader pulled into the writing/subject

Anita: Concrete imagery sparks interest

Eva: Blurring the lines between academic and creative writing selfs

James: The power of speaking to your reader directly

Hussian: To tighten the preface to collection

1 word poem

Ratcatcher: minibus lodger blood stringbag-holdingspace