I came away from our meeting last week full of ideas, and really keen to get going. My sketchbook is filling up rapidly – all those articles and postcards I stockpiled "just in case".
The main motif of the project is to expand the experience gained by students, to make them more aware of the societal/cultural aspects of "the body" in all its manifestations and deepen their understanding of its structure and function. Their course is already designed so that they do a lot of drawing -my job will be to enhance this, and get them to think outside the "scientific" box into which their intensive training thrusts them.
It's a truism to say that all professions/occupations etc. come with their own mindset and language. Part of a training programme always includes training people to think in a particular way – useful for them to do the job properly, but potentially restricting if applied to daily life. Anyone who chooses our module is going to have to be prepared to attempt a different kind of thinking (me too I suppose).
Our provisional list of topics includes investigation of structure, aspects of illustration, life, death, gender, the Universe and Everything. We might as well be comprehensive…
