Academic staff profile Lindy Richardson

With 25 years experience, I continue to learn how to teach better and to teach how to learn well. My research in collaborative practice and vertical integration has fuelled an interest in bringing together novices and experts in a bid to encourage new thinking.  The inexperienced can act as a catalyst to innovation through their questioning and challenging the what if’s ?and why not’s of materials and processes? The ‘experts’ are stimulated and tested to question their own preconceptions and blind beliefs.
I aspire to keep challenging expectations, and asking what is textiles anyway?

Research interests and activities

Themes: Virgin Christian Saints, Historic embroidery, Collaborative learning.

Materials: Food, concrete, paper, fabric, people.

Activities: As curator of the ECA embroidery collection I am currently engaged in researching the Needlework Development Scheme (1934-1961).  The Challenge Investment fund is enabling the gathering of oral histories across the UK to compliment the sample and archival materials collection both here in ECA and nationally.

Research outputs

2013 Book, Saints and Cultural Trans-/Missions  ISBN 978-3-89665-621-6, chapter, Who’s bones are they anyway.

2013, FTC conference, Sheffield, Speaker, title of paper Collective designers-the value of nurturing the truly collaborative voice.