Over the last four years I have completed a good
number of MOOCs and I cannot thank enough Edx, Coursera, FutureLearn and the
universities they are associated with for the knowledge I gained.
Recently,
I completed one of my favourite MOOCs: “Politics,
Art and Resistance” (https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/politics-art-resistance). Thanks to
two History of Art courses (Open University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Institute
of Youth and Lifetime Education Thessaloniki, Greece) and one History of Modern
Art course (State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece) I had
attended in the past, I was familiar with the impact of art to the society. “Politics,
Art and Resistance” took this knowledge to the next level as I learnt new
art and political
principles. In addition, I learnt more
about connecting art with resistance and applying it to everyday life so to
improve the society overall. I highly recommend completing this MOOC.
Furthermore, thanks to “Politics, Art and
Resistance” I had the opportunity to participate in a group exhibition in Tate
Modern. Every participant of this MOOC could upload a picture of what Resistance
means to them on a padlet. All these pictures were gathered and formed a
beautiful mosaic which was at Tate Modern Blavatnik Building, Level 5
from 30 May 2018 until 3 of June 2018 (http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/tate-exchange/workshop/other). As Resistance
for me means fighting the death penalty, my contribution to this project was the
picture of the first post I wrote for this blog: http://artistsvsdeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2011/01/under-article-2-of-human-rights-act.html. Needless to
say, that I am really happy indeed raising awareness about the cruelty of the capital
punishment to the visitors of Tate Modern.
So, I would like to thank Dr Stefan Rossbach (S.Rossbach@kent.ac.uk) and Dr Ian Mackenzie (I.Mackenzie@kent.ac.uk) for creating such an enlightening course
and kindly offering their time answering questions of students on this MOOC comments
section, Ms Hollie Mackenzie and Mr Conor
Heaney for being so great mentors, Ms Catherine Wood and Ms Cara Courage from
Tate Modern for two thought-provoking discussions with Dr Stefan Rossbach and
Dr Ian Mackenzie that were part of the course, my co-students for their
comments, such a great global study group and everyone working for this MOOC in
the University of Kent, FutureLearn
and Tate Modern.
Special thanks to Dr Stefan Rossbach who took photographs
of the Mosaic and then he sent them to me so to publish them on this post. I am
really grateful indeed!
Athina
University
of Kent https://www.kent.ac.uk/elearning/themes/PARmooc.html, https://www.kent.ac.uk/politics/news-events/index.html?view=1093
FutureLearn “Politics, Art and Resistance” https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/politics-art-resistance
Do you remember the exact name of the program that we use to do the photo collage? Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThank you for visiting my blog!
DeleteIt was the Tate Exchange Programme and the name of the ‘Resistance’ Padlet was: https://unikent.padlet.org/mao21/resistance.
I hope you find this useful.
Best,
Athina