Connected Academy aimed to combine connected learning with peer feedback in an online space. It offered a new form of conversation-driven education driven by real-time engagement across social media.
Connected Academy is designed to run online courses to a blended audience (both in-person and online). Towards the end of the project we ran a short course as a proof of concept.
An online course explore the representations of addiction in journalistic photography. In partnership with several renowned photographers this course took learners on a three part journey narrated by Graham Macindoe, Jeffrey Stockbridge and Nina Berman.
Photographer Graham Macindoe and journalist Susan Stellin provide a case-study for us to consider how images are interpreted and to reflect on their enduring and potentially evolving impact.
New participants revisit some of the themes of episode one and their alternate perspectives enable us to build on those discussions. We move from the self-portraiture of Graham Macindoe, to the participatory practices of Jeffrey Stockbridge and his Kensington Blues project.
New York based photographer Nina Berman interviews her long term subject Kimberly Stevens. Industry stalwart and critical thinker Stephen Mayes reflects on the audience perspective and Professor Mark Kleiman of New York University again challenges our thinking on addiction and forces us to revisit our earlier discussions.