myblog | Francesco Mazzarella | Activity https://myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/members/fmazzarella/activity/ Activity feed for Francesco Mazzarella. Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:15:33 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=12.2.0 en-GB 30 hourly 2 837701bcdc67f0dd245906282e007ce7 Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=168 Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:03:14 +0000 Changes in the Process

I recruited less refugee collaborators than I had initially envisagedTwo guest speakers couldn’t deliver their masterclasses due to illness, but their collaborators were able to go ahead […]

]]> 0 0e2e4ad85095602f84c9a9cd29e269f0 Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=123 Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:39:16 +0000 ARP Presentation_15.01.24Download

]]> 0 04d4b5150ae4d7931f6d0d05064c97d7 Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=128 Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:10:34 +0000 I am a member of the UAL DESIS Lab, as part of the international DESIS (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability) network. Together with Cecilia Casas Romero, Alberto Franco Gomis, and José Manuel Chavez […]

]]> 0 86040ebaa13cc9279df6d953349db304 Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=126 Wed, 03 Jan 2024 17:58:50 +0000 The Collaborative Challenge unit ended with a presentation of each of the 6 students’ teams about the process and outputs of their projects. The team responded to questions and received feedback from the […]

]]> 0 1382651ae3682bdd29203227fbebf400 Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=125 Wed, 03 Jan 2024 17:56:56 +0000 Since the brief involved cross-cultural collaboration with vulnerable people, I invited Adam Ramejkis (Intercultural Communication Trainer at UAL) to deliver two workshops (at The Lab E20, on 8th and 15th […]

]]> 0 ce40f0e82b2d58eed38d49824875f4ac Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=124 Wed, 03 Jan 2024 17:40:34 +0000 Feedback on the Project

Findings from the analysis of the data collected through the evaluation questionnaire highlighted the success of the project. In fact, 65% of the respondents rated the quality of the […]

]]> 0 d6b2d0d6d214c5589d1684c5fa7473a1 Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=122 Wed, 03 Jan 2024 17:37:11 +0000 To help me keep on track during this action research project, I have created this list of activities I need to complete in order to deliver a successful project:

Attend workshops and cross-programme […]

]]> 0 1d6dfd2b7fc512da279a0d2a8a7407d3 Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=89 Thu, 21 Dec 2023 17:27:04 +0000 Throughout my action research project, I followed a cycle of planning, action and reflection (as per Bradbury, 2015) to influence an aspect of teaching and learning which was the focus of my project. In this […]

]]> 0 9d058e652ff8a9085a2a87abc89d5277 Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=88 Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:33:36 +0000 I have decided to focus my ARP on the student project brief on ‘Decolonising Fashion and Textiles’ which I have developed for the Collaborative Challenge unit at LCF, building on the Artefact which I submitted […]

]]> 0 da72a2d098a5587a1203e38d54d4af36 Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=95 Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:25:02 +0000 To complement the general schedule of the Collaborative Challenge with its consultancies with the project supervisors (myself and Dr Seher Mirza), I curated a programme of masterclasses to inspire the students […]

]]> 0 00b4f8270558bf17958839ee901c2932 Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=65 Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:30:51 +0000 Since my Action Research Project involves collecting data from human participants, I had to be mindful of the ethical implications of my research in order to protect the participants and their interests […]

]]> 0 b2a85a5600ec10650c5e3ac4c9399599 Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=45 Fri, 27 Oct 2023 11:17:00 +0000 Ahmed, S. (2020). Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Postcoloniality. London and New York: Routledge.

Bradbury, H. (ed.) (2015) The SAGE handbook of action research. Los Angeles: SAGE.

Chatwin, B. […]

]]> 0 2c1d99f2caa27488e9ae7b872bf6768a Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=44 Fri, 27 Oct 2023 11:14:39 +0000 My Action Research Project (ARP) is part of a larger project I am conducting with the overall aim to develop a framework for decolonising fashion design practice and advance a cultural sustainability agenda. […]

]]> 0 be584cbd3e08ae138add95d4cfbe5c01 Francesco Mazzarella posted a new activity comment https://fionajanewalsh.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/2023/07/17/race/#comment-4 Wed, 19 Jul 2023 10:40:50 +0000 Hi Fiona,
Thanks for your openness and honesty in sharing your lived experience of racism when you were a student yourself. Your efforts are commendable, and I am delighted to see what you have achieved and the resilience you have built.
As you also commented, the report by Finnigan and Richards evidences the attainment issues faced by BAME…Read more

In reply to - Fiona Jane Walsh wrote a new post on the site fionajanewalsh IPU: RACE The Room of Silence is a documentary that explores race, identity and marginalisation at The Rhode Island School of Design in New York […] ]]> c67ebfea5e1d92230752751e9072c337 Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=35 Wed, 19 Jul 2023 09:51:48 +0000 Reflective-Report_22048582Download

]]> 0 9620661ba882a1718eba11e3af70a340 Francesco Mazzarella posted a new activity comment https://jameswhitepgcert.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/2023/06/22/blog-3-race/#comment-18 Tue, 18 Jul 2023 09:03:43 +0000 Hi James,
I was really inspired by your deeply meaningful, critical and comprehensive posts, that tackled important considerations for us as educators to engage with issues of race in our teaching practice.
I have been involved in hiring some staff, and I am aware that UAL has a policy in place by there needs to be a BAME member of interview…Read more

In reply to - James White wrote a new post on the site James White PgCert I have responded to the following resources in more depth in their own individual blogposts, and will try my best here to summarise my reflection from […] ]]> 8a12bea3c926ee22799041f98cceb150 Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=28 Mon, 17 Jul 2023 21:44:42 +0000 Shades of Noir

The Shades of Noir (SoN) website offers a wide range of programmes, publications and educational resources on social justice that leverage equality, cultural capital and the voices of students […]

]]> 0 f602b6f9cc12dac5043bed4be1f937eb Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=30 Mon, 10 Jul 2023 22:07:00 +0000 Collaborative-Challenge_DFT-brief_finalDownload

]]> 0 0a7d3d5955e0c13976a8b4cd7eca5d7d Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=27 Mon, 10 Jul 2023 12:14:48 +0000 Religion in Britain: Challenges for Higher Education

This stimulus paper made me question whether religion is something public or private, and made me consider important issues in the context of HEIs. I agree […]

]]> 0 4d47a5a6ba56ff73f57ad322a62a299c Francesco Mazzarella posted a new activity comment https://elenipapazoglou.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/2023/05/08/faith/#comment-4 Fri, 07 Jul 2023 12:11:54 +0000 Hi Eleni,
Well done for such a meaningful blog post! I loved how you acknowledged your positionality as a starting point for reflecting on faith in relation to your teaching practice.
I totally relate with the importance to make space for such interesting – yet sometimes difficult – discussions. That made me think that, besides physical spa…Read more

In reply to - Eleni Papazoglou wrote a new post on the site Eleni Papazoglou I grew up in Greece, which in the 90s was 90% Christian Orthodox, and in which communities with diverse spiritual practices were very closed. Often […] ]]> 71acee44037cbdd477a75422b2818616 Francesco Mazzarella posted a new activity comment https://liztregenzapgcert.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/2023/05/10/blogging-activity-1-disability/#comment-5 Thu, 06 Jul 2023 15:45:56 +0000 Hi Liz,
Reading your blog posts on disability was fascinating, and I really liked how you responded to the resources.
As you know, I also teach in fashion and I am interested in the concept of identity; yet, my practice is focused on designing new things / services / systems, and not specifically on historical studies. I am sure you know her…Read more

In reply to - Liz Tregenza wrote a new post on the site Liz Tregenza UAL disability service webpages UAL offers a wide range of support for students with all different kinds of disabilities. At present these service […] ]]> a8892aef5350194dfd35403d32b04913 Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=24 Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:00:01 +0000 UAL Disability Service Webpages

This website offers a valuable overview of the wide range of services and support available at UAL for students with disabilities, such as dyslexia, physical impairment, mental […]

]]> 1 8b1813d56fb4bb6b721967eb0ea1bdb2 Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=29 Fri, 21 Apr 2023 21:52:00 +0000 I am a design researcher, educator, and activist, striving to plant seeds of hope and change, especially when working with marginalised communities. I define myself as a craftsman of my own life, which looks like […]

]]> 0 b1c65b81c53b3be8e390a4f87319ebb6 Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=19 Fri, 03 Mar 2023 15:45:14 +0000 Dall’Alba, G. (2005). Improving teaching: Enhancing ways of being university teachers. Higher Education Research & Development, 24 (4), pp. 361–372.

In this post, I reflect on the article on “Improving Teach […]

]]> 0 41b3d23ea92193645b73e4321ad02c4e Francesco Mazzarella posted a new activity comment https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/2023/01/23/teaching-artefact/#comment-5 Mon, 27 Feb 2023 14:24:50 +0000 Hi Sean-Henry, Thanks for your positive comment about the assessment brief. Your comment also reminded me of the opportunities and challenges posed by digital learning tools such as Padlet. With online teaching during the lockdown, I really embraced the use of Padlet, and I think that – even now that we teach in person – we could keep using Pad…Read more

In reply to - Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog In this blog, I reflect on my learnings from the PgCert workshop on teaching artefacts. For this workshop, I chose the Assessment Brief for the […] ]]> e8b1cc4d023a3c9e8fa95b908c093dbf Francesco Mazzarella posted a new activity comment https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/2023/01/23/teaching-artefact/#comment-4 Mon, 27 Feb 2023 13:14:54 +0000 Hi Bo,
Many thanks for your valuable feedback and advice. Moving onto ‘holistic assessment’ is a very good suggestion; however, I don’t have all the power to change the assessment format of the unit, especially as this unit is delivered at MA courses across the whole School of Design and Technology, and any suggested changes need to be validated…Read more

In reply to - Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog In this blog, I reflect on my learnings from the PgCert workshop on teaching artefacts. For this workshop, I chose the Assessment Brief for the […] ]]> 1bb641f429eb2041869060ce1c29f704 Francesco Mazzarella posted a new activity comment https://bochoy.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/2023/01/21/note-on-dialogical-teaching/#comment-2 Mon, 27 Feb 2023 12:53:38 +0000 It is great that you have critically reflected on your own weaknesses and made plans to enhance your teaching practice. This is very resonant to me, as I also tend to speak too fast during my teaching and pack my lectures too much. I loved the emphasis on the importance to consider multilingual student cohorts (which is very relevant at UAL given…Read more

In reply to - Bo Choy wrote a new post on the site Bo's PGCert blog I had a nice conversation with a colleague and also a fellow PGCert student, about conversations in tutorials and crits. He agreed with the primacy of this in […] ]]> 27892e848c4a2cade6230b196a2035cc Francesco Mazzarella posted a new activity comment https://bochoy.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/2023/01/08/paolo-freire-and-the-conversation/#comment-3 Mon, 27 Feb 2023 12:53:28 +0000 I really like the book ‘The Pedagogy of the Oppressed’ by Paulo Freire, and its focuse on dialogical teaching. I think it could be great if you could expand on the concept of the ‘oppressed’ as it could be ambiguous and interesting to critically reflect on. You could add one sentence about who ‘the oppressed’ is in Freire’s book, and then contextu…Read more

In reply to - Bo Choy wrote a new post on the site Bo's PGCert blog For the first introductory meeting, I chose the book by Paolo Freire The Pedagogy of the Oppressed, a book that I had wanted to read for a long time but […] ]]> 09eac05a4345ee6a7a417829a05588d1 Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=8 Mon, 20 Feb 2023 12:05:13 +0000 A quick snapshot on myself, my teaching practice, my pedagogic approach, and some open questions.

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The introductory workshop in the PgCert provided me with an […]

]]> 0 e2e07d136e240d73667009fc1e4ea54c Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=5 Mon, 20 Feb 2023 11:53:33 +0000 Introductory presentation on ‘Decolonising Fashion and Design for Cultural Sustainability with Refugee Communities’.

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For the micro-teaching […]

]]> 0 5a78471f6692772edd725059bbabed4a Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=17 Mon, 23 Jan 2023 14:18:00 +0000 In this blog, I reflect on my learnings from the PgCert workshop on teaching artefacts. For this workshop, I chose the Assessment Brief for the Research Proposal unit which I teach across MA courses at LCF. The […]

]]> 3 27f00f8ce64583ad9a826e0a9a2c800f Francesco Mazzarella posted an update: Hello, Today I have attended my first PgCert induction […] https://myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/492538/ Fri, 16 Dec 2022 12:05:04 +0000 Hello, Today I have attended my first PgCert induction session. I am quite excited to start learning about design education theories, inclusive practices, and working on my action research project. Yet, I am quite concerned about the difficulty to find the time to do this well, alongside all my other work commitments. Wish me good luck!

]]> 0 e5a2487feb046bea67517fbd4db805a8 Francesco Mazzarella wrote a new post on the site fmazzarella's blog https://fmazzarella.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=1 Fri, 16 Dec 2022 11:25:37 +0000 Collaborative Challenge masterclass and workshop with MA students at LCF. Photo by Aran Knowles.

I am a Senior Lecturer in Fashion and Design for Social Change, teaching in a number of courses across London […]

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