ual governor: ben terrett

Last night I attended the launch of Fred Deakin’s report Discovering the Post-Digital Art School. It’s available here as a PDF. (Fred, it should be in html somewhere 🙂 ) I’ve written before about Fred’s Collabology project, it’s a great way to use digital in an art school. It points a way forward that is more interesting and… Continue reading discovering the post-digital art school: fred deakin’s report

I haven’t blogged here for a while, which is a shame. Although I don’t think anyone reads it 🙂 Last Thursday night I managed to get to the LCF BA final show. Fantastic work and inspiring atmosphere as always. If you couldn’t make it the live stream looked good and the Instagram feed had good coverage.… Continue reading #LCFBA16

This morning I spoke at Next Up 15 an event for UAL 3rd year students. Hello to any students reading this because of the event. The event was great because it was attended by people from all of 6 of the UAL colleges. More of that please. Some great speakers too, I shared a panel with Craig… Continue reading ual: next up 15

A few weeks ago I spoke at the DeL 2015: Technology Culture Practice held at CSM. Before the conference I tweeted that my first slide would be “stop calling it e-learning”.   That seemed to work. There’s a good write up here.  

I went to the CSM graduation at the Royal Festival Hall this morning. As a governor you get to wear a gown, a funny hat and you sit on the stage behind the Vice Chancellor and Heads of College and people like that. You also get to clap all the graduands on and off the… Continue reading congratulations: graduands!

What value can governors add, I hear you ask. We can provide social media endorsement for Pro Vice Chancellors and their colleges, I reply 😉   It’s official: “The Central Saint Martins show is really good. You should go.” So says @benterrett — Jeremy Till (@jeremytill) June 24, 2015 I visited the CSM show yesterday. There… Continue reading summer: shows

Only Wimbledon to go now 🙂

Womenswear by Jim Chen Hstang Hu I was at CSM this evening for the renowned Fashion Show. I’ve never been to a fashion show before, luckily Grayson told me what to expect – the weird and wonderful and that’s just the music The show was fantastic. Print by Han Kim   Grayson even managed to tweet a few future… Continue reading csm: ba fashion show

Today I met Katie, she’s a UAL grad and now works at Wieden & Kennedy. She also teaches part time on the CSM Illustration course. She’s helping illustrators understand the internet and it’s possibilities for their future careers. Here is the description of the course, “As technology evolves the way we communicate, illustrators, designers and… Continue reading katie: how not to suck on the internet

  As regular readers will know, in my role as a governor I’ve been helping UAL to be more digital and working out what that means for them. We’ve just held the first meeting of the UAL DIgital Think Tank. It’s a group of people convened to look at the overall approach to digital at UAL. It’s a small group,… Continue reading first meeting: digital think tank