Institutional Eyewear
Sarah Britten Jones
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Geographic location
United Kingdom
Year
2022
Description
Universities are centres of knowledge generation and learning, yet paradoxically they have very little self-knowledge. They are structured to learn about topics external to themselves but have limited mechanisms to absorb knowledge of themselves. Institutional self-awareness and an organisational ability to know itself from diverse and multiple perspectives are essential capabilities in our increasingly dynamic, complex and unpredictable world.
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Acknowledgements
Staff and students of Oxford Brookes University and the artist Peter Driver
Biography
Sarah is an artist, academic, design researcher and PhD Candidate at the Royal College of Art. She gained her MFA (Master of Fine Art) in Ceramic Art from the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University in 2007 and has taught at universities in the USA and UK since 2005. Sarah was a member of Open Hand Open Space Artist Studios in Reading, UK for 12 years, and currently teaches at Oxford Brookes University School of Arts as a Senior Lecturer in Design. She has exhibited across the USA and the UK with a project based and frequently collaborative art and design practice, including recently with the artist Jon Lockhart. Sarah has worked collaboratively in the public realm to create interactive performance and sculpture in response to institutional, social, and historical environments. She currently uses participatory and speculative design research methods to visualise and embody systems and feedback processes within institutions. Since 2017, with her practice-based research at the RCA, she has created speculative institutional props that propose alternative futures and relations within universities.