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Practices of Hope

I was invited recently to talk to some students about the impact of Covid, during the past year, on our learning practice in the gallery. Reflecting on what we have done, and the challenges and opportunities of increased remote delivery, I was acutely aware of how fundamental the real encounter is to our practice in art and design education. Whether that practice takes place in the classroom, art room, studio, community centre or gallery, the 'intra-actions' (Barad 2007) between people, materials, objects and ideas are a familiar, but perhaps taken-for-granted, aspect of the pedagogies we have developed within our field. I noticed, as I was presenting, that I kept returning to the word 'hope'. Hope that galleries could reopen, hope that we could work again with groups, hope that schools would prioritise creative practice, hope that students could return to campus and studios.