Plymouth has a background in offering remote teaching, such as through the Planetary Collegium, which is concerned with the advancement of emergent forms of art and architecture and is run remotely internationally. We've got a remote masters in fine art as well, so although we're not obviously delivering all our courses remotely there is an expertise in remote learning alongside still rich teaching that can be used to inform learning going forward.
Chris: As technology changes, the way in which we teach and practice across our subject areas, will change. When we look towards immersion, automation and big data and what our Digital Fabrication and Immersive Media Labs offers in the delivery of teaching, research and innovation for the University and local community, it will be interesting over the next little while to see what constitutes an art, design and architecture school.
What we are trying to do at Plymouth is take our core subject areas and shift them forwards through some of these digital interventions. We want to really push our teaching and the experience our students gain in order for them to make an impact in a changing world.
Right now is a very interesting space for students to come in and do some impactful things where technologies are at a tipping point.
I'd love to be going back to university at this time, studying these subject areas, because it really reminds me of the time I came into the industry at a pivotal moment when something was shifting and you had an opportunity as a creative graduate to do something really impactful in the world.