Maddie is an associate lecturer who has been teaching at the University of the Arts London for 9 years. Last year Maddie discovered an event scheduled at the UAL London College of Communication entitled Race, Religion and Free Speech.
Maddie’s tutor group had been given an assignment to make a piece of work about anti-discrimination for a charity. The work would be exhibited in a pop-up exhibition at UAL. Maddie had organised a full program of activities and group exercises to inspire student’s creative processes. In workshop spaces students had watched a number of television documentaries on aspects of discrimination such as racism, sexism and homophobia etc.
The group had made work about their peer’s countries of origins in pairs and had also brought in traditional food to share. Aside from this the students had engaged in debates and seminars about the role of advertising in society, in particular looking at Benneton’s controversial advertising campaigns regarding race and gender. The students also visited a number of spaces such as the Museum of Sugar and Slavery and the Holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. Maddie took her entire group to the networking lunch and event.