The Found Poetry and Art Space
About the session:
The Found Poetry and Art Space provides an opportunity for passers-by to take a break from the demands of everyday life to pause, be creative and discover the poetry that is hidden in plain sight in everyday texts. This relaxed and informal space aims to:
The Found Poetry and Art Space The Found Poetry and Art Space provides an opportunity for passers-by to take a break from the demands of everyday life to pause, be creative and discover the poetry that is hidden in plain sight in everyday texts.
This relaxed and informal space aims to:
• Encourage passers-by to embrace creative expression by exploring a form of found poetry wherein a poet takes an existing text and erases, blacks out, or obscures parts of a text, creating a new poem from what remains.
• Introduce some drawing techniques around the found poem, to reflect or express the poetry that emerges.
• Contribute to a live online exhibition of found poetry and image.
Location: FAB 0.23 (classroom style room, ground floor, just off the Agora).
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Time slots: This is a drop-in style workshop from 12pm - 4pm. Please allow approximately 30 minutes to engage with the session objectives.
Meet the Facilitators:
Words Rise into the Air, 2024
Dr Harriet Richmond is the Researcher Development Consultant at the University of Warwick, with responsibility for professional development programmes for research staff.
Harriet received a PhD in Drama from the University of Birmingham, UK in 2018. Her thesis examines the relationship between theatre design education, design and scenography practice and emergent professional identities of theatre designers by reconstructing the curriculum and pedagogy of a theatre design course that originated in the 1930s - the Motley Theatre Design Course - using visual and object elicitation research methods.
Harriet’s interests are the formation and development of professional identities, creativity in professional learning, and creative research methods, including arts-informed research, photo and object elicitation, and collage inquiry.
Dr Harriet Richmond (University of Warwick) and Dr Jacquie Ridge (University of Northampton) are the co-convenors of The Non-Traditional Research Methods (NTRM) Network. The Network was launched in 2021 and was borne out of three colleagues talking and observing that, despite the sheer range of research methods available, in practice decisions in this area are often bound by the conventions of different disciplines. Not all research methods suit all contexts, but we decided that we would really welcome the opportunity to be exposed more to innovative research methods and research methods that are not traditional in the areas in which we work. The purpose of NTRM is, therefore, to provide a space for meaningful cross disciplinary research debate and thereby encourage more creativity in this aspect of research design.
Harriet’s interests are the formation and development of professional identities, creativity in professional learning, and creative research methods, including arts-informed research, photo and object elicitation, and collage inquiry. Harriet is the author of The Public Laundry blogLink opens in a new window.