Victoria+de+Rijke


 * CS39. Victoria de Rijke ** – //Supertoys:// //The Dangers & Delights of Play//

May 27 Friday 10:45-11:30 PM HM 138

Throughout the Supertoys workshop participants will be encouraged to break up and re-make toys, while reflecting on the project, children’s analysis of creativity and the imagination and what playful unmaking and remaking means to them. The ‘hands-on’ activity will exemplify implicit learning without verbal instruction largely through observation and imitation; theories of learning through participation in the arts such as that researched and championed by Shirley Brice-Heath. It is thus hoped that participants will better understand play in the very act of its making,

Affiliation/Bio: Dr. Victoria de Rijke is Reader in Arts & Education at Middlesex University, London UK, V.deRijke@mdx.ac.uk Co-presenter: Dr. Rebecca Sinker is a sometime artist and Curator: Digital Learning at the Tate Galleries, rebecca.sinker@tate.org.uk Usually working collaboratively on joint presentations -such as ‘Taking Play Seriously’ for the AAH Conference Location: the Museum, the Academy & the Studio, Tate Britain & Tate Modern (2008), on this occasion Rebecca Sinker and Victoria de Rijke have made two proposals to the conference which depend on the other’s contribution. This is because the open interdisciplinarity of the conference offered the exciting possibility for us to both explore creativity with active participants within a workshop/atelier model, and presenting performatively with an interruptive/discursive model. Rebecca and Victoria have presented and published on the many creative processes of play -such as 'DARE to DADA: an argument for visual and verbal avant-garde poetry in the Nursery', //International Journal for// //Education Through Art// (2006)- and are currently working together on an edited Art & Play Reader, which will model the interdisciplinarity of play in one book, as learning through making (haptic and conceptual) or playful arts practice as generating theory. A constant aim in their work and research is to challenge the hierarchy that exists between forms of play, arts education and visual arts practice, and emphasize the common ground.