Ari Chand - Symbolic Violence: the importance of inclusive design stories
Channel: The New Art School
Date: 2020-11-06

This presentation will present and address some of the case studies used enlightening Visual Communication Design students to symbolic violence, the role of cultural capital and the designerly knowing embedded within coalescing theoretical and studio practice. The process of addressing colonisation and its transition into the 21st Century has interrupted, or should be interrupting, our ‘picture’ or signified mental concept of the way Higher Education operates. No longer can we disregard the ‘tipping point’ of interest and scope in our constantly moving; post-human, meta-modern, discussion of diversity, accessibility and sexuality, within the ‘New-normalcy’ world and what it entails for learners. Not only do we need to instil critical thinking into cultivating critical life-long learners, but one’s that address the complex futures of evaluating the past and its speculative design impacts.


Dr Ari Chand is a Designer/Illustrator and practice-based researcher with experience in Secondary and Tertiary Education, Illustration Theory and Practice, Natural History Illustration, Drawing theory and Practice, Character Design and Concept Art, Design History and Theory, design research, to key areas of core teaching in Visual Communication Design and Creative Industries Education.
His research focuses on understanding the complex way a socio-cultural framework for understanding Design into the 21st century is relevant to how humanity will undertake the complex issues of our time. Research is practice-based at the University of Newcastle and looks at the development of a theoretical framework based on the combination of seminal concepts, habitus (Pierre Bourdieu) and tacit knowledge (Michael Polanyi), to interrogate and scope out the nature of style and design process within design practice. Future key focuses include creativity research, visuospatial cognition, and decolonising design. 
His illustration work is mainly comprised of traditional drawing, watercolour, ink, acrylic or digital illustration. In 2019 was a finalist in the Sir William Dobell Foundation and National Art School’s Biannual 2019 Dobell Drawing Prize. 
As a Singer-Songwriter he also In 2018 released is Album 13 Track Album entitled‘ High Tide’ with Threebirds Records: https://open.spotify.com/album/0gNUOYnIaNi2kbw3OwIm23
https://www.creativeresearchhub.com/chen
In 2020 He has been funded alongside Dr Andrew Howells, Dr Jane Shadbolt, Dr Caelli Jo Brooker, Mr Carl Morgan and Mr Alex Barnes-Keoghan to set up a ‘Drawing Education Network’. 

www.arichand.com
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/ari-chand
Twitter: @byarichand

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