A session about Case Study Development as part of the the Immersive Eco System Training Event hosted by UAL for Accelerate with Darryl Clifton & Katie Gardener, UAL

Biographies

Darryl Clifton is an educator, researcher and illustrator and currently the Illustration Programme Director at Camberwell Chelsea and Wimbledon college (CCW), UAL. Clifton’s research is defined as trans-disciplinary, using methods that draw on the intersectional spaces of illustration, design, anthropology, sociology of education and immersive/virtual technologies with a particular focus on the potential for disciplinary ‘disobedience’ to enable transformative educational experiences in the pursuit of social justice, equality, diversity and inclusivity. Clifton studied Visual Communication at Kent Institute of Art and Design and Illustration at the Royal College of Art. He has broad experience working in education at home and abroad and has taught at Central St Martins, Kingston School of Art, The Royal College of Art, Aalto University (Helsinki), Tsinghua University (Beijing), HyperIsland (Karlskrona), Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (Jerusalem and Tel Aviv) and the University of Guadalajara.

Katie Gardener Digital Learning Producer at Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Colleges UAL.

University of the Arts London (UAL) is Europe’s largest specialist arts and Design University, bringing together six previously separate arts, design, fashion and communication Colleges. UAL has more than 3,000 academic, research and technical staff and about 19,000 students from more than 100 countries. UAL is actively engaged in research and innovation as well as artistic, cultural and education projects. In the latest REF (UK Research Excellence Framework) 83% of UAL research was classified as ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’, and its overall quality profile placed it in the top 25 of UK Universities.