My Digital Life

Illustration by Tatiana Alisova

The ‘My Digital Life’ project aims to give a voice to UAL students who are engaging  with technologies in innovative ways. We know that our students are living increasingly sophisticated and mobile digital lives in a vast and varied technological landscape. Understanding these digital lives is challenging but vital for us to make best use of digital technologies to support and improve the student experience.

For Del 2012 we put out an open call to UAL students, inviting them to submit proposals to present on ‘My Digital Life’ at the conference. From the many high quality submissions we received, 5 outstanding students have been selected:

Tatiana Alisova

Tatiana’s presentation will show how her passion for technology and digital innovation is combined with traditional ways of making. She will discuss a recent project in which Edward Lears’ story ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ was illustrated in the form of an augmented reality book. The reader can travel through the story to create their own narrative, finding hidden characters and new pathways…

Jessica Barr

Jessica will discuss her digital life as an online MA student living in Cambodia. She has found herself taking part in weekly Skype sessions, tutorials and live streams in many diverse places: on a bus driving through the remote jungle, up a tree-house by the coast and in a floating tent on a river in the mountains…

Artemis Evlogimenou

Artemis’s work focuses on how the arts can challenge current structures within education. She will talk about using social media and technology to promote community interaction and social change through creative and collaborative opportunities. The This is an Art School project is an example of her recent work. She is also working with colleagues as part of  Trade School London.

Alice Macchi

Alice Macchi is interested in assessing the benefits and shortfalls of online learning in order to plan for better infrastructures in a fast changing educational landscape. Her paper will provide an insight into the dynamics of the online student community and supply valuable feedback, thus contributing to the growth and expansion of the field…

Shilpi Tomar

Shilpi’s constant motivation to find new digital mediums has lead her to her newest fixation: creativity through mobile devices. For My Digital Life she will present some of the many ways mobile devices can be used for creativity, giving examples of some of her own projects and findings made during her study at London College of Fashion…

We are very much looking forward to hearing from our students at the conference!