Our UAL research group, the Experimental Pedagogies Research Group (EPRG), will be running a series of workshops to help colleagues submit work to UAL’s teaching and learning Journal, Spark, next year.
The workshops are called:
‘gatherings of pedagogical minor gestures’ – eprg x spark workshops
Workshop 1
Where: LCC (in person) Room W224
10.00 – 13.00
Wednesday 14th October 2026
Workshop 2
Where: HH 203a (in person) Doctoral School
10.00 – 13.00
Wednesday 11th November 2026
The Experimental Pedagogies Research Group (EPRG) will be guest-editing UAL’s Spark journal in 2026/7. This special issue will be celebrating the sometimes overlooked or under-recognised ‘minor gestures’ of our teaching and learning environments.
We would like to invite you to participate in gathering our pedagogical minor gestures together. This is an opportunity to share the work we do, with students, through collaboration, engagement, inclusion, diversity and equity.
For more information or ideas about what a pedagogical minor gesture might be, see: https://eprg.arts.ac.uk/gala-of-pedagogicalminor-gestures/
Contact:
m.Ingham@lcc.arts.ac.uk
j.r.martin@chelsea.arts.ac.uk
There will me more of these workshops throughout the year and we will have some that are online.
The Experimental Pedagogies Research Group (EPRG) will be guest-editing UAL’s Spark journal in 2026/7. This special issue will be celebrating the sometimes overlooked or under-recognised ‘minor gestures’ (e.g. Manning, 2016) of our teaching and learning environments.
We would like to invite you to participate in gathering our pedagogical minor gestures together. This is an opportunity to share the work we do, with students, through collaboration, to engage, include and explore.
This call seeks other forms of creative response, including:
> images (still or moving)
> sound
> structures
> provocations
> poetry
> narratives
> transcripts
> dialogues
> discussion
> inconclusive writing
> (un)essays
> staff, student and co-produced work
> documentation of collaborative events / artefacts
… or any other contribution that considers relationships of experimental pedagogies and minor gestures
How we have enacted or perceived something’ which has brought about a
response, change or effect in a learning environment – and how can we express and celebrate our pedagogical attempts and realisations?
Have we resources to explore in our archives or experience? What have we tried? Where are the risks? When might we risk? How else can we try? What do we ‘value’? In what ways might we handle what we find?
What if …? What other…? How, now?
Submission process
Please upload your content to this Expressions of Interest (Outlook) site: https://forms.office.com/e/vaxMHKN9u1
