Thompson, S., 2021.

Citation Required?: Modes of critical writing beyond the academy

Contributor to / speaker at an online workshop on art & design writing and pedagogies, as part of a research networking project on Immersive Visual Cultures led by Clare Johnson and Rachael Miles at the University of the West of England (UWE). The workshop aimed to explore and develop innovative approaches to writing and teaching within/without/alongside/around/? art and design through conversations with an interdisciplinary range of students, academics, artists, designers, writers, and/or people who identify with a combination, expansion, reconfiguration, and/or negation, of these categories. The workshop considered the following questions: - What do we mean by ?academic? or ?scholarly? approaches to writing with/about art and design? -What are the conventions of academic writing and how useful and/or relevant are these in relation to art and design practice, critique, and analysis? - In what ways, if any, do you employ ?non-academic? materials ? for example, fiction, poetry, theatre, social media, graphic novels, film and television, computer games, song lyrics, jokes, operas, journalism, zines, and so on ? in your own practice and research? -What are the benefits/possibilities and/or limitations, of presenting critical analyses in forms other than the conventional academic essay or dissertation?