Author Archives: Ella Belenky

____ * Kingsgate Workshops’ Millimetre Project curation including work by: Finlay Taylor, Nina Royle, Dana Sherwood, Mark Dion, Steven Claydon​ (2024). ________ Carrier of Connections is a pedagogical intervention designed for graduate diploma graphic design students undertaking a unit on … Continue reading →

*Image showing the varied student starting positions for their ‘race’ (Channel 4. (2020)) In his TEDx talk, Aman Sadiq questions the effectiveness of diversity training, he points out that these trainings often do more harm than good. Rather than embracing … Continue reading →

Writing about faith in education has been harder than I expected. Through our class discussions, I’ve realised I’m not alone. Many of us grew up seeing school as a “secular” space where religion wasn’t really talked about – often in … Continue reading →

*Aby Warburg, Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, panel 77 (recovered) My proposed intervention, Atlas of Fragments reimagines Aby Warburg’s ‘Mnemosyne Atlas’ as a tool for teaching, thinking, and making together. It invites participants to explore social questions through image, juxtaposition, and conversation. The project … Continue reading →

(Sun Kim, 2023) I’ve been thinking a lot about barriers throughout the PgCert; not just physical ones, but also the more subtle, systemic decisions that determine who gets to participate and who is left out. What disables people isn’t their … Continue reading →

*A slide of aphorisms about learning from a recent PGCE workshop. ____________________________________ I’ve been really enjoying my time on the PGCE program. It’s been great to connect with folks from different courses. Sharing experiences and learning from each other has … Continue reading →

*Edward Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip that was included in Rosaline’s selection of objects from the Special Collections. ______________________________________________ Session/artefact to be observed/reviewed: The Writers’ Collective Special Collections Session Size of student group: TBC Observer: Ella Belenky Observee: … Continue reading →

* Group picture of the students posing with their banners ___________________________________ Session/artefact to be observed/reviewed: Banner Making Workshop (Part 2) ’Aesthetics of Repair’  Size of student group: 15 students   Observer: Linda Aloysius  Observee: Ella Belenky  Note: This record is … Continue reading →

* Ella Belenky, Everything Eats and Gets Eaten, 2020, pen and collage on paper, 21 x 29.7 cm _______________________________ I really loved reading the introduction to Sara Ahmed’s ‘What’s the Use?‘. Ahmed’s writing of “use” as both a  relation and … Continue reading →

* “Atalanta Fugiens” (Oppenheim: Hieronymus Galler, 1618) ___________________ Reflective practice is a ‘metacognitive’ way of working; a cycle of learning, shaped by both private and collective spaces of questioning. Reflection begins with some sort of experience that leaves either a … Continue reading →