Goldsmiths - University of London

Juliet Sprake, BA (Hons), PGCE, MA, PhD

Teaching

PGCE Design and Technology, BA (Ed) Design and Technology, BA Design, MA Design Education, PG Cert in the Management of Learning and Teaching, The Graduate School Academic Practice

Research interests

My research interests are in exploring the potential of mobile technologies to develop non-didactic ways into learning in location, primarily associated with touring activities. My practice is concerned with reconceptualising the guided tour as learning activity so that participants are empowered to engage in creative ways with the urban built environment. Experimentation with referencing points and challenging ways in which information is received and perceived is a key concern of this practice. My research is inter-disciplinary in bringing together theories and practices of learning and touring to find new ways of exploring and engaging with architecture and the built environment.

I have worked with a range of organisations including Futurelab, The V&A Museum, The British Library, Fundamental Architectural Inclusion, London Borough of Lewisham, London Open House, The Design Museum and Arts Inform to create partnerships and collaborations that develop learning through the built environment with diverse and often hard to reach, groups of people.

Selected publications

Projects

2003

Mapping Boundaries
www.londonopenhouse.org/openhouse/pubs_teachers.html
Learner group: BAEd students at Goldsmiths

June 2004 - March 2005

Mudlarking in Deptford
www.cracksinconcrete.co.uk
www.futurelab.org.uk/showcase
http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,10577,1500441,00.html
Learner group: Year 7 students at Sydenham School, Lewisham

May - June 2006

Transitional Spaces at the V&A
Learner group: Year 9 students at Pimlico School, Westminster

September – November 2006

No Lingering in Lewisham!
Learner group: KS3 Citizenship students at Deptford Green School, Lewisham

October 2006 – March 2007

Cracking Maps at the British Library
Learner group: KS3 Geography students at South Camden Community School, Camden

Training and evaluation activities

Design Museum, London:
Evaluator of ‘Designers in Action’ CPD workshop programme for teachers, 2001
Evaluator of Architectural Loan Boxes Scheme, 2002

Learning Skills and Development Agency:
Presenter, Effective Delivery of VCE training programme, RIBA, June 2004

Sydenham School, Lewisham:
Trainer, National Strategy – KS3 Framework for D&T, March and June 2004, June 2005, June 2006

London Open House:
Research and CPD consultant 2003-04

Providing training support for teachers taking part in Junior Open House and Open Up events at key architectural sites in London and back in the classroom, 2002-2004

Arts Inform (London Arts):
Invited judge for Designs on London 2002 exhibition at the RIBA
Project management consultant and project evaluator for Designs on Britain 2003
www.artsinform.com/i/dob (evaluation document)

Sprake, J. & Allinson, K., 2003, Mapping Boundaries: A Spatial Approach to Design for Trainee Teachers, CABE/Architecture Link, London. This case study is still on sale through Open House (http://www.londonopenhouse.org/openhouse/pubs_teachers.html)

Published papers

‘The Curse of the Universal User’
Paper published in The Journal of Design and Technology Education, Volume 5, Autumn 2000 ISSN 1360-1431

‘Imagining London Through Non-Idle Pictures’
Paper published in conference proceedings International Conference of Technology Education, Braunschweig, Germany, September 2000

‘Users as Architects: thinking big/reading small’
Paper published in IDATER 2001 ISBN 1 899291 55

‘Death of the Designer?’
Paper published in conference proceedings DATA International Research Conference 2002 ISBN 1 898788 60 X

‘Connections, products and people: developing design perspectives through small and large scale products’
Paper published in conference proceedings Challenges for Technology Education in the context of Globalisation 1st Biennial International Conference on Technology Education, Nitzny Novgorod, Russia, July 2002 ISBN 5-7565-0043-X

‘Mapping Boundaries – Reading Everyday Urban Text’
Paper published in conference proceedings
The Design Wisdom 5th European Academy of Design Conference, Barcelona, Spain, April 2003

‘Accidental Tours and Illegal Tour Guides: mobile learners designing participatory explorations of an urban site’
Abstract published and presentation in Seeing, Understanding, Learning in the Mobile Age Conference, Budapest April 28–30 2005

‘Learning through Walking: New Tactics for Orienteering’
Paper presentation Locating Design, Design History Society Annual Conference, 7-9 September 2005

‘Accidental Tours and Illegal Tour Guides: Taking the Textbook out of the Tour’
Annual periodical chapter in Naripea, E., Sarapik, V, Tomberg, J., 2006, Place and Location: Studies in Environmental Aesthetics and Semiotics V, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn (pp 195-214)
ISSN 17362326

‘Transitional Spaces: Mapping Physical Change’
Journal article co-authored with Helen Thomas in International Journal of Art & Design Education, Volume 26 Issue 2, pp 167-176
NSEAD/Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Also as web article
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1476-8070.2007.00526.x

‘Sensing Anomalies: An Exploration of Disorganisation and Disturbance as Productive Elements in Learning Through Location’
Paper in Arnedillo-Sanchez, Sharples, M., Beyond Mobile Learning, Kaleidoscope Special Interest Group (SIG),Trinity College Dublin Press, pp30-42
ISBN 9781871408484

Presentations and exhibitions

Culture/Nature/Semiotics: Locations IV, Tallinn-Tartu, Estonia
‘Accidental Tour Guides and Architectural Escapades’

Handheld Learning 2005, Goldsmiths College
‘Mudlarking in Deptford’

Deptford Design ’05: What’s so great about SE8?, Creative Lewisham Agency
APT Gallery, Deptford
‘The Mudlarking Tour’

London Open House 2005 at Creekside Education Centre
‘Mudlarking in Deptford’

London in Maps: The British Library (forthcoming exhibition)
‘Cracking Maps’

Grants & awards

Goldsmiths Learning and Teaching Secondment on Assessment in Design
Goldsmiths CELT Fellowship on Innovative Use of Locative Technologies in Learning
Futurelab grant of £15000 for Mudlarking
London Development Agency grant of £8000 to fund a knowledge transfer partnership with Fundamental Architectural Inclusion
MacDonald Egan sponsorship of £5000 to part-fund No Lingering in Lewisham!

Professional activities

External Examiner for PGCE Design and Technology at the University of Chichester