9.00 to 9.30

Yoga for Desk Jockeys with Terri Sinden

This session will be held on Zoom.

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For rounded shoulders, keyboard neck, iPhone claw, and when you're struggling to come back to 'Computer Pose'. This is your essential yoga toolbox for working from home. No previous experience necessary. Think of it as a few nice stretches and a couple of handy breathing techniques to cut the brain fog. Equipment needed: practicing on a mat is preferable but can be done on carpet or a towel on the kitchen floor, or if you're pushed for space plenty can be done just sitting in a chair. 

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10.00 to 11.00

Keynote Lecture: Design Futures: How might we re-think design’s role in shaping the future - Andrea Cooper

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Design in its many guises has been at the service of our modern economy for over 200 years, shaping, forming and responding to the demands of clients and commissions. How might design contribute to creating a more inclusive, circular and prosperous future economy? Do we need to revisit our design culture and design practice to drive this change? This session will outline the drivers and opportunities that are likely to shape design in the next decade and discuss how designers’ practice might need to respond in order to thrive in our future economy. Andrea Cooper has worked with global corporations, government departments, charities and social enterprises demonstrating practical ways to improve people’s lives using design principles and practice. Formerly Chief Design Officer at the Design Council, for more than two decades she has been a champion for public involvement in designing better public services.

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11.30 to 12.45

Critical Views on Re-Thinking Design Thinking - Dr Sharon Prendeville, Dr Linje Manyozo, Dr Danah Abdulla, Dr Julia Goga-Cook, Jocelyn Bailey

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Critiques of design thinking are now manifold. Taken as an instrumental approach it is leveraged to serve to gloss over certain interests over others, naturalise dominant value systems, and preferentially sustain certain epistemologies over others. This panel session will present and discuss the substantive critiques and limitations of design thinking from a range of critical scholarly positions, including post-colonial and de-colonial studies, and parallel debates developed through the field of critical management studies (and the subsequent critical responses therein). In light of increasing prominence in a variety of social arenas, the panel will consider points of re-construction and potentially productive ways forward.

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11.30 to 12.45

What's Happening in the Jobs Market for PhDs - Liz Wilkinson

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Liz Wilkinson, Techne Careers Consultant and PhD labour market expert will explore:

• How has Covid-19 changed the job and opportunity market in the education, cultural, arts and public policy sectors?

• How can you keep up with fast changing trends and opportunities?

• How can you build your skills and profile to develop your career in 2021/22?

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13.30 to 13.45

Student Poster Conversations

This session will be held in the virtual Congress space on Gather. Please follow this link to access the Gather space, and follow the sign to the posters room.

 

Some of our Techne students are busy creating posters relating to their research, which will be on display on Gather throughout the Congress. Although you can view the posters at any time, the students who have made them will be present in the poster room on Gather to talk about their research during this time slot - please drop in during those times to ask questions and hear more about their research.

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14.00 to 15.15

How to Decolonize Media and Culture Research - Dr Burçe Celik, Dr Last Moyo, Prof. Usha Raman, Dr Ana Cristina Suzina

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The panel will problematize the West/Northcentric research paradigms and practice in media and culture from the perspective of Global South. In particular, we will address the linguistic, epistemological, methodological and institutional pillars of Westcentric media and cultural research.

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14.00 to 15.15

Future Spaces for Culture - Dr. Paul Brickell, Alistair Spalding CBE, Graham Hitchen, Alan Davey CBE, Simon Cane, Catherine Ince, Anna Millhouse

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The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games was a once in a lifetime opportunity to not only put on the Greatest Games in history but also to leave a lasting prosperous legacy in east London. Part of that legacy is East Bank, a new space for culture offering an opportunity for universities, arts and culture institution that opens up opportunities for everyone who visits, lives and works in east London. This panel will bring together the collaborators who are working to make East Bank a reality. Dr. Paul Brickell Executive Director for Regeneration at the London Legacy Development Corporation will be joined by Alistair Spalding CBE, CEO of Sadlers Wells Theatre and principal members of the other partners, BBC, V&A, London College of Fashion and UCL. The session will be followed by a Q&A for attendees to ask any questions about the East Bank development.

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15.30 to 17.00

Back to the Future Pub Quiz

This session will be held in the virtual Congress space on Gather. Please follow this link to access the Gather space, and follow the sign to the bar area to join the pub quiz.

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Join us in our very own virtual Congress bar area on Gather for our Back to the Future pub quiz, with questions related to the 1950s, 1980s and 2020s.

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