Library Instruction West
July 23-25, 2014
Portland State University, Portland Oregon
Hosted by Portland State University Library
In 2014 I, along with colleagues Megan Smithling and Heather Jean Uhl, presented the session Playing Well With Others: Research Studios at Cornish College of the Arts.
from our description:
Cornish College of the Arts offers a distinctive blend of visual and performing arts grounded in a core curriculum of humanities and sciences. Cornish offers a Bachelor of Music degree and Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in art, dance, design, music, performance production and theater.
With a focus on the visual and performing arts, and a faculty/student population of visual/aural/kinesthetic learners, our patrons’ interests are often “making and doing,” rather than engaging in conventional academic research. Consequently, our librarians collaborate with faculty to align students’ own practices in the studio/performance space with more traditional academic research processes.
This interactive panel will demonstrate three lo-fi pedagogical techniques that we use in our discipline-specific research studios. Use of the term research studio is intentional -- the Library brings the concept of the studio as a place of creative practice -- into students’ research practice.
from our description:
Cornish College of the Arts offers a distinctive blend of visual and performing arts grounded in a core curriculum of humanities and sciences. Cornish offers a Bachelor of Music degree and Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in art, dance, design, music, performance production and theater.
With a focus on the visual and performing arts, and a faculty/student population of visual/aural/kinesthetic learners, our patrons’ interests are often “making and doing,” rather than engaging in conventional academic research. Consequently, our librarians collaborate with faculty to align students’ own practices in the studio/performance space with more traditional academic research processes.
This interactive panel will demonstrate three lo-fi pedagogical techniques that we use in our discipline-specific research studios. Use of the term research studio is intentional -- the Library brings the concept of the studio as a place of creative practice -- into students’ research practice.