CSM: Fashion; Jewellery and Textiles; Product Ceramics and Industrial Design and Spatial Practices Student Dean Forum Minutes November, 2016

Item Issue Raised by Details Response Action Updates

There were concerns about 121 contact with the tutors in the last forum. Consequently, we have implemented a Contact time Dean new tutorial policy on how we can deliver this. It should be on the course Moodle site so do check it. It will also be in next term's Course Committee agenda.

Final BA students be aware that we have Academic Dean an academic support staff member who support offers drop-in services.

Do keep feeding back about issues and Dean concerns about anything.

The Learning and teaching centre are working with course teams to make the Communication Dean assessment brief clearer for staff and students. Deadlines will be clarified. Introduction & updates There was confusion and uncertainty about course trips. We have spoken to the Programme Directors. If it's an Course trips Dean overseas trip and not affordable then the cost courses are obliged to do the equivalent in the UK. It will be made clear and give enough notice.

BA Fashion Communication have been allocated an additional room (AE116) Space Dean which will be changed over next summer 2017. The learning zone will be expanded and furniture will be improved

Head of There will be more photography kit in the Loan store Technical Loan Store. Resources

Head of We will be taking the screen out of the Seminar rooms Technical seminar rooms and replacing it with Resources projectors. CSM: Fashion; Jewellery and Textiles; Product Ceramics and Industrial Design and Spatial Practices Student Dean Forum Minutes November, 2016

BA Fashion Dean- I was there and there were Communication: The interview with Vivienne Westwood Interview nuggets of brilliant and interesting Fashion History was fun. things. It was filmed as well. and Theory

BA Fashion: The graduate talk was great- it made my Talk Fashion Design day. Digital fabrication is great and with Marketing accessible.

Positives PCID is successful and the turn-out was BA Product great. It was relevant and helpfully PCID Design & broken down for us so it was not as Jewellery scary.

The trip to Bushcraft was good although MA Material more warning would have been good. It Dean- Great. I will make a note about Trip Futures was interesting and enjoyable and it was more kit preparation. good to do some work with wood.

Dean- There is always going to be a break as it's shared between courses. Go to the library and use BA Fashion There is too much of a gap between the that time. I would be worried if Communication: Cultural Studies lecture and seminar. Can it be students can't think of ways to do Fashion History reassessed and bought closer together? that. It has been brought up before and Theory and unfortunately the answer will always be no due to timetabling all groups.

Dean- I understand that low The attendance is poor. We only need to attendance is frustrating but there is go to 1 which is the bare minimum. We Attendance to a correlation between poor grade and Various don't have the incentive to go to all of Cultural Studies poor attendance. Course Leaders Course them. It's more the manner than the staff have a clear and well thought-out or content of the course. plan.

BA Fashion Dean to speak to the course The content is not relevant to us at all. If Communication: team about encouraging the they told us at the beginning that it will Dean- I will give them a prompt about Fashion History importance of the link of help with dissertation would be good. this as it has come up before. and Theory & Cultural Studies with their The structure does not make sense. Presentation of Jewellery final year dissertation. Cultural Studies BA Fashion Dean to feed back to the There is an assumption that you just Communication: Dean- I will feed that back to the course team about the way need to go to one lecture and seminar. Fashion History course team. Cultural Studies is It's presented that way. and Theory presented and review it. CSM: Fashion; Jewellery and Textiles; Product Ceramics and Industrial Design and Spatial Practices Student Dean Forum Minutes November, 2016

Dean- Some technical team such as Dean to contact the course knit do buy in bulk. We need to be team regarding material clever about cost. I will take it back to cost. the course team.

We were handed a long list of tools Rep to email Head of costing around £200 which is not BA Product Technical Resources (Brian affordable. I haven't bought it yet. Can Design Whiting) the list of tools. you not provide us with cheap alternative or buy things in bulk? HT- Also email me the list and I can look into it. Head of Technical Resources to look into the Additional cost Materials material costs. of tools

Dean- We do provide a lot of fabric. For our show we are collecting around £5 Stationery is tricky though as it's for lights, stationery etc. I don't mobile and disappears a lot, which is understand why we are paying for it. why we have the policy that students Why don't we get shared stationery? BA Fashion: provide their own. Fashion Design with Marketing Dean- We do have them in the Digital Printing bureau on the third What about a guillotine? floor with safety guards. They don't work well on fabric.

Dean-Seminars are put up by careers unit. You don't need to spend a lot of money. We encourage recycling so UAL website says that funding is speak to your course leader about Dean to explore available but mainly for collaboration. We affordable ways of doing this. Some sponsorship option for PG are looking for possible funding or help in fabrics donation is available mostly in funding. raising money for our project. Fashion but we can approach similar Postgraduate MA Narrative Funding organisations and deal with it case by project Environment case. I will have a think about sponsorship options.

I am looking into sponsorship options but Dean- Your course leader should be Reps to approach the have not been getting any responses so able to write a reference for you so course leader for reference. far. do not hesitate to ask them. CSM: Fashion; Jewellery and Textiles; Product Ceramics and Industrial Design and Spatial Practices Student Dean Forum Minutes November, 2016

Dean- We have to get a balance between analog and digital. Head of We need more 3D printers. Universities Technical Resources (Brian Whiting) such as Brighton are catching up with us. is working with the academics to review the needs including digital.

BA Product Equipment 3D printers Design

Head of Technical Resources (HT)- I would love to but we are not allowed You could also sell old computers at to because of the data in the hard discounted rate. drive. Academic computers are renewed every 5 years so I can check with IT.

CL will circulate placement opportunties to FHT students.The pathway leader is actively involved in placing my graduates Dean- I spoke to the course leader. for employment and graduate study.Worth We do offer amazing placements but noting that industry experience exists in the Fashion History Can we have more placement assistance there seem to be some confusion. Placement Assistance course itself. Last year second years & Theory for academically driven courses. Fashion Communication have it but curated their own display at the Museum of it's primarily aimed at Design. We will London, this year second year students are work on finding a balance. working on the British Council’s International Fashion Showcase

HT- I know there's an issue and we're looking into it.

We are having a lot of problems. The BA Fashion information on CelCat and Moodle is Timetabling Unreliable Communication incorrect and there are often discrepancies. Dean- It's a university-wide issue and all colleges are working on it. CSM: Fashion; Jewellery and Textiles; Product Ceramics and Industrial Design and Spatial Practices Student Dean Forum Minutes November, 2016

HT- We tried using the wall space last year and students kept losing their work. I can't limit this to specific courses either due to space restriction. This site is better but since we are in London we have to be economical . We can't create new We should have permanent space to space but we have reduced student Lack of keep our work long term. We have to tidy numbers. BA Product permanent work every surface and desks and the lockers Design space are not big enough. Using the wall space HT- Some walls can be used as long might be a solution. as it's not a heritage wall.

Dean- We can look into it as certain Reps to take forward the courses and years might be able to. conversation about the use Speak to your course leaders and of wall space to the Course also bring it up in Course Committee. Committee.

SP sace is being reviewed for . Space 17/18.CELCAT makes this difficult to organize. but if a room is not being used Dean- I have spoken to the course for classes, and has desks available, they leaders and will follow up as to what can sit in there and work. I understand they There is a big space in Architecture they can give me. I will look at getting Dean to follow up with the like the idea of planning ahead but we BA Spatial which is always empty. Can we use it the message across for the potential course leader about using must also acknowledge that the way the Practice when it's empty? to move between studios. You should the Architecture space. Programme uses space is to 'broadly' also be willing to allow others to use designate the bigger studio F101 to BA your space as well. Classes (235 students) and F104 to MA Classes (108 students)

Dean- It is a shared space so we can't just give it to Grad diploma Dean to speak to the The corridor is our studio. There are students but I will speak to the Graduate Diploma Fashion Graduate booths and it gets noisy and people Noise level Course Leader and the Programme course and programme Diploma Fashion leave their stuff which is disruptive. Can leader to control the noise. They can leaders about controlling you not move the booths? leave signs and encourage people to excessive noise. be quite and respectful.

Product, Ceramic Can the opening hours in the general HT- It is open till 9 but can't be open Workshop Opening hours & Industrial workshop area be extended to midnight? till later due to limited resources. Design courses CSM: Fashion; Jewellery and Textiles; Product Ceramics and Industrial Design and Spatial Practices Student Dean Forum Minutes November, 2016

The Students' Union to HT- You have your course handbook SU will email CSM students link to OTTer Lack of BA Ceramic There is a lack of awareness of other promote OTTer to reps. and OTTer which details every in the emails henceforth. The link is- awareness Design facilities in the university such as help Reps to pass it to their workshop we have. https://otter.arts.ac.uk/csm/ available for photography, video editing course mates. etc. Dean- I will take it to the library staff. the laptop loan safe is set to only release a laptop for loan when it reaches 80% charge. This was changed recently in response to student feedback that the laptops didn’t have enough charge. The 80% charge minimum should ensure that I have been told I cannot borrow the the student can use the laptop for the laptops from the library as it is not fully Dean to speak to the staff duration of the 4 hour loan period and that BA Jewellery charged, which makes no sense. The about the laptop borrowing Laptops a charger cable should not be necessary. Design others don’t seem to work. Why don't system and ask to lend out Students might also ask why they can’t Facilities they lend out chargers as well? It just the chargers as well. have a longer loan period and a charger, doesn't make sense. but we have stuck to the four hour limit to ensure that as many students as possible have access to the equipment

The plug sockets – We are aware that the floor boxes and not very reliable. We report any issues to estates as soon as we are Dean will contact the library made aware. In addition we have started to Sockets Various and Learning Zone about install table top charging points, currently the sockets and feedback we have about 50% of desks covered but Plug sockets in the library are always will be expanding this broken and not maintained. Can something be done about this please?

Dean spoke to the rep after the meeting BA Fashion I would like the V&A Ball to take place in V&A ball Organising and offered to meet with him to explore his Communication CSM. He has emailed Jeremy Till but was also wondering if you could back this proposal. up?