Anxiety and niceness: drawing disability into the art and design curriculum through a live brief

Nicole Matthews

Anxiety and niceness: drawing disability into the art and design curriculum through a live brief

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Abstract

This article considers the way that affect shaped the unfolding of a curriculum initiative which aimed to expose undergraduate art and design students to the insights of critical disability studies. This initiative, funded by the Big Lottery and managed by disability charity Scope, asked students in art, design and multimedia programmes in four UK higher education institutions to engage with a live brief: to develop inclusive illustrated children's books and digital media. By focusing on the affective dimensions to this project and especially what Sianne Ngai refers to as the 'minor emotions' - not fear or passion or hatred, but, for example, anxiety - this article traces the way such feelings and associated 'taste concepts' influenced the engagements, disengagements and judgements of students, staff and the project's management.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Disability matters
Subtitle of host publication	pedagogy, media and affect
Editors	Anna Hickey-Moody, Vicki Crowley
Place of Publication	New York : London
Publisher	Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
Pages	123-137
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	9780415693509
Publication status	Published - 2012

Bibliographical note

Originally published in: Discourse : studies in the cultural politics of education, Vol. 31, Issue 4 (2010), p.527-541.

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Anxiety and niceness: drawing disability into the art and design curriculum through a live brief

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