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+ TEACHING



Preparing resilient, dynamic and diverse students for a fast changing world of opportunity and challenge through live learning, research, risk-taking and collaborative knowledge generation and exchange in art and design.


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New Technologies and New Learning
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and I have carried out a number of funded pedagogic research projects concerned with new technologies, learning and teaching. I have presented pedagogic papers nationally and undertaken a funded fellowship. I have written degree and postgraduate courses courses, including the first BA in Virtual Realities.


Thinking about thinking
I promote reflective practice as a way of encouraging critical and self-directed learning. I aim to develop students as reflective practitioners to encourage them to become autonomous learners – to think about their thinking. Digital technologies - in particular social media tools can help promote a form of shared reflection, or reflective dialogue, to help groups of students reflect, improve and learn form each other.


Reflective Dialogues

The Teaching Fellowship explored how models of sharing and collaboration adapted from open source practice and social media networks can offer new ways to work and learn together, as students and staff to create and share knowledge and ideas beyond boundaries. New collaborative models offer great potential for future learning and make for more experiential and peer learning to happen. It allows for greater cross cultural exchange and inter connectedness


Learning how to Learn
In an increasingly precarious environment for graduates, it is important to promote self-reflection, digital literacy and collaboration skills. It is this 'learning how to learn' that will allow students to thrive in the dynamic, complex and challenging world beyond University.


+ FUNDED PROJECTS

+ 2020 Architectures of the Imaginary, UDK Berlin.
Erasmus Funded Two day talk and workshops exploring Virtual Memories, Bodies, Identities and Futures. Poster


+ 2018 House of Daydreams project, Tate Modern.
Collaboration with Shibboleth Schechter, Marsha Bradfield plus students from DRS05, DRS07 and MA Iinterior and Spatial Design.


+ 2017 VR Symposia, Tate Modern.
Digital Maker Collective events including four VR Symposia: Virtual Histories, Virtual Economies, Virtual Bodies, Virtual Spaces with invited experts, practitioners, and industry partners


+ 2016 Two Funded Teaching and Learning Projects with Digital Maker Collective: Developing Open Learning Methods and Virtual Reality for Interior and Spatial Design.


+ 2011 Making a Difference project
ISD Openspace:
development of Communities of Practice inclusding staff, students and alumni, culminating in the successful Openspace ISD Alumni Event.


+ 2009 Teaching and Professional Fellowship
Discovering communities of social e-learning practice download report Paper presented a the ALT-C Conference 2010

+ 2006 CLIP CETL project
Blogs, Autonomous learning and reflective practice
download paper Paper Presented at the ALT-C Conference 2007



openspace poster

+ 2012 Poster for the ISD Openspace Alumni Event



Tate Exchange 22.03.17

+ 2017 Poster for DMC Event Virtual Spaces at Tate Modern

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Peckham Levels

+ 2022-23 Graduating MA ISD students with me at the Peckham Levels final show event.


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Piera

+ 2017 MA Interior and Spatial Design Student Piera Di Mascoli Denker Rasmussen wins Holition's first ever UXSprints VR award.


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dmc tate exchange

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2017, the Digital Maker Collective at the Tate Modern Exchange ahead of the Digital Friction Event March 8th (Chris Follows0


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openspace event

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2012 Charlotte Greenleaf presents in the packed out lecture theatre for the Openspace event [Photo by Robin Jenkins]


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UDk 2020 Poster

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2020 Architectures of the Imaginary workshops and talks UDK Berlin


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fellowship report 2010

+ The Fellowship Report 2010


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studio

Studio teaching 2008 [Photo UAL/David Barnett]


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Year2

+ Live Project at Channel 4 2006 [Photo UAL/David Barnett]

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