Role
Lecturer
Institution/Country
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Topic
Re-imagining the Social Lives of Materials Through Play: Balsa Wood
Biography
Laura-Jane Atkinson is a Lecturer on the UAL Art and Design Foundation course at Manchester Metropolitan University, having previously taught on the same course at Leeds Arts University, and other MA and BA(Hons) programmes between these two institutions.
Her craft practice is rooted in material research and development, proposing new methodologies for craft practices for under-celebrated materials that lead to material innovations that aim to enable alternative social lives and increased social value for such materials.