This is a 5-hour workshop designed to explore the challenges and solutions around the meaning of inclusion. The aim is to identify and share best practices that can benefit the UAL community and other human resources communities.
Representatives from different groups will be invited to take part in the workshop, including teachers, technicians, the admin team and LCC students.
Participatory video methodologies will be used to reflect on the challenges and solutions related to inclusion. What does inclusion mean for students and staff? What are the challenges in creating inclusive spaces? What best practices are already in place at LCC? What more should be done to support a more inclusive teaching and learning environment?
The workshop will begin with a short introduction on how to produce a simple script to capture everyone’s ideas. Participants will then film and edit a short video together using a mobile journalism kit, including phones, small tripods and a microphone.
The final video could be used as a form of video mediated dialogue. The higher management team would be invited to watch the video and record a short video using their phone in response, outlining how they plan to act on some of the ideas or requests raised by the LCC community.
The video could also be shared with the other five UAL colleges to encourage further discussion on the topic. As this could be seen as a pilot project, it may also be replicated across the five other UAL colleges so that each college can share its views. Best practices could then be brought together in a final screening and discussion event, where university policymakers would be invited to take part.
I have years of experience facilitating participatory video projects with people from different countries and diverse backgrounds. It would be valuable to explore this process within higher education and in a creative environment such as LCC.