Speaker

Gareth Kennedy

Biography

Appearing on:

Session: Teaching against the Tide – Engaging First Year Fine Art Students in ‘Not Knowing’

NCAD Field

Gareth Kennedy is an artist and lecturer at the NCAD in Dublin. Since 2020, he has been charged with running the Studio+ NCAD FIELD module in a derelict brown field site beside the college which is in the process of being reappraised as a ‘Novel Ecology’. Students reckon with the layered history and potential futures of this site through experimental, experiential and environmental based learning and action. They are tasked with developing new ‘Naturecultures’ through an ethos informed by taskscaping, Urban Commoning, and ‘rambunctious gardening’.