NSEAD London & South East Art & Design Teachers Network Autumn event

NSEAD London & South East Art & Design Teachers Network

SEAD - NSEAD London and South East Art & Design Teachers Network Autumn event this weekend!

Really pleased to announce the latest event for our members:

City LIt - Sunday 23rd November 2025, 10:30am – 3:50pm

Venue: CulturePlex (on the ground floor) at City Lit. Adult Education Provider, 1–10 Keeley Street, London, WC2B 4BA https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/art-and-design

Programme: Critique - the Preparation for and Management of Critical Review in Art & Design

▪ 10:30 – Meet at City Lit (please bring your own coffee, as the on-site Culture Plex café is closed on Sundays). However, although closed, the café area on the ground floor can be used for arrival, networking and where you can consume your drinks and lunch.

▪ 11:00 – Session 1: AA & GG Welcome and set out focus for the day

• 11:15 – Simone Maier: Welcome to City Lit – Introduction to City Lit, it’s offer, and the Visual Arts department

• 11:25 – A film screening of Don’t Kill the Art School (20 mins. excerpt)

• 11:40 – A structured critique of the film with one guiding question

• 12:00 – Discussion - on structuring useful crits, drawing on pedagogic research – using a one page flyer handout: Preparing for Your Crit (written with Foundation students in mind)

• 12:15 – Open discussion - on how crits work across different levels of art and design education.

 12:45 – Break for lunch

▪ 1:45 – A Screening of the second excerpt (approx. 30 min) from Don’t Kill the Art School

• 2:10 – Open crit session

• 3:00 – GG & AA share some thought on Effective Questioning and a draft resource handout on how to structure Critical Thinking, to build critical thinking behaviours.

• Reflections on the day and the usefulness of the crit format

▪ 3:45 – Concluding remarks from AA

Don’t Kill The Art School. This film was commissioned by Prof Stella Bruzzi, Dean of Arts and Humanities (@artshumsucl ) and co-directed by Justin Hardy and Kate Stonehill (@@kstonehill ). With full access to one of the world’s most historic art schools, the Slade School of Fine Art, Don’t Kill the Art School reflects on an institution’s past and future to ask:

What does the future of art education look like? The film features both emerging artists and renowned alumni, the film explores questions at the heart of how cultural institutions are evolving today.