1. Changing Practices - Co-creating Solutions A Partnership Approach Terry Finnigan t.finnigan@fashion.arts.ac.uk University of the Arts London

2. Creative practice Cultural change, like creativity itself, is a process not an event ( Robinson 2001)

3. The Concept of Co-Creation Joint creation of value by the company and the customer Joint problem definition and problem solving Continuous dialogue Prahalad C.K. & Ramaswamy, V.(2004) Journal of Interactive Marketing

4. Co-creation in HE How to release the creativity and energies of staff working in hierarchical and complex environments How to work collaboratively and creatively to bring about innovation (Winsor 2006) How to work more closely with students in order to develop solutions

5. Diverse Student Voices in Art & Design Tell Us About It BME Partnership Projects

6. Tell Us About It High achieving students Variety of diverse backgrounds Focus on overall learning experience

7. Effectively widening participation depends on explicitly addressing the experiences, practices and meanings of the students themselves. Burke (2002)

8. Student responses Artefacts Paintings Board games Sketchbooks Reflective writing Books DVDs

9. Dissemination activities Exhibitions Publications Staff and student workshops

10. Staff comments Inspiring, thought provoking..excellent to see, feel and touch what the students have produced.

11. Staff comments This took me on an emotional journey with my students, makes me rethink the way we assess and understand students

12. Reminded me of what I used to do before I was institutionalised. Thank you

13. Visual and Tactile Experience Triggers discussions around difference and identity Encourages staff to think how they may change their practices Produces dialogues around the mutability of meanings

14. Impact on the Institution Work in outreach projects Influencing the new developments in the delivery of the PGCert Informing induction activities Informing how to integrate identity and difference into the curriculum Working with Student Union to train their student reps

15. BME Partnership Projects Changing practices at course team level Working in partnership with students and alumni

16. BME Partnership Projects Linked to improving the attainment of students from BME backgrounds Involving students and alumni Linked to curriculum deliver/design/on course student support Sustainable

17. Informing the curriculum? Asking students views in focus groups /blogs/questionnaires/video diaries Co-constructing solutions with students and alumni BME box is a difficult construct Small but powerful interventions

18. We must shift the role of the critical intellectuals from being universalizing spokespersons to acting as cultural workers whose task it is to take away the barriers that prevent people thinking for themselves Apple in Bowl 2007

19. Co-creating solutions Edge learner forum BME futures Face Book site Skins writing team

20. Student voice projects are about challenging the academy to allow active participation from a wide range of communities and individuals who will help to redefine the parameters of higher education itself Stuart 2000