Edinburgh offers the luxury of an unusual wealth of Museums, Archives and Special Collections. On the Illustration programme at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), we use Archives and Special Collections in supporting Undergraduate students to develop and communicate richer and more varied personal research methodologies. This paper draws together reflections of students, staff on the Programme, Curators, Archivists and broader scholarship on the use of Collections in Higher Education pedagogy. In doing this I seek to map out ways of nurturing rich and sophisticated research methodologies when working with Illustration students. In reflecting on how students actually learn to undertake research, this presentation considers how effectively the pathway model in use at ECA guides students to explore, question and value a broader variety of materials in much more depth.
Lucy Roscoe
Lecturer in Illustration, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
Lucy Roscoe is an educator and illustrator based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She works with a variety of illustration clients and collaborates with national libraries, museums and archives. Research interests include sculptural book works and the role of the book form in pedagogy, and Roscoe is co-chair of Bookmarks, an annual artists book and zine fair in Edinburgh.
Sessions
Prisms
Let's get physical: the use of Archives and Special Collections in supporting Undergraduate Illustration students at Edinburgh College of Art to develop and communicate richer and more varied personal research methodologies
Wednesday, July 10,