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The International Journal of Art & Design Education Conference 2025 explores the theme 'Ecologies' and has a hybrid format, with one online day and one in-person day in Bristol with our host institution, UWE:
Thursday 6 November 2025 | Online
Saturday 8 November 2025 | Arnolfini, UWE Bristol
Ecologists seek to explain the relationship between humans and their environment. The ecologies of an art and design classroom encompass constellations of behaviours, personalities, curriculum, pedagogies, and assessment practices, while interconnected challenges to funding, resources and subject expertise threaten ecological collapse in some sectors of arts education. In the theoretical field, ecological thinking can open up the relations between art and education, schooling and the creative economy, or the dynamics that define art, craft, and design disciplines.
The iJADE conference provides the opportunity share and discuss ideas, practical developments and research findings in art and design education. The conference welcomes presentations reflecting on the ecologies of art and design education from colleagues in art and design pedagogy, gallery education, working in creative education at any level (formal or otherwise), students and researchers, and those working in related disciplines. The full call for papers and further details of the conference theme are available via the link below.
The International Journal of Art & Design Education Conference 2025 explores the theme 'Ecologies' and has a hybrid format, with one online day and one in-person day in Bristol with our host institution, UWE:
Thursday 6 November 2025 | Online
Saturday 8 November 2025 | Arnolfini, UWE Bristol
Ecologists seek to explain the relationship between humans and their environment. The ecologies of an art and design classroom encompass constellations of behaviours, personalities, curriculum, pedagogies, and assessment practices, while interconnected challenges to funding, resources and subject expertise threaten ecological collapse in some sectors of arts education. In the theoretical field, ecological thinking can open up the relations between art and education, schooling and the creative economy, or the dynamics that define art, craft, and design disciplines.
The iJADE conference provides the opportunity share and discuss ideas, practical developments and research findings in art and design education. The conference welcomes presentations reflecting on the ecologies of art and design education from colleagues in art and design pedagogy, gallery education, working in creative education at any level (formal or otherwise), students and researchers, and those working in related disciplines. The full call for papers and further details of the conference theme are available via the link below.