Maddie White

Maddie White is a former French with Spanish student who began studying for a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in 2017, taking Reinventing Education as a final-year module choice in 2020-21.

About The Project

This written piece will begin by reflecting on the reasons for my artistic creation and how it visually represents the change in me upon experiencing a utopian, educational environment. Then, I seek to engage with the aspect of education that most interests me, the impact of community in creating an effective learning space, while critically evaluating it against my purpose of education. And finally, while painting felt apt as a medium for the project, it didn’t feel complete on its own, so in the spirit of creating knowledge and new understandings, I share specifics on how camp communities are built each summer, in the hope that whoever reads this may perhaps take a small, relevant piece of this utopia and implement it in their educating.

- Maddie White