GLAD-HE Post-Conference Publication, Responding •Reframing • Re-thinking A new era in creative education for our sector? - Editorial

This special edition post-conference publication is a collection of practitioner led studies from
the 2021 virtual conference ‘Responding, Reframing, Re-thinking: A new era in creative
education for our sector’. Organised by the Group for Learning in Art and Design (GLAD
HE), in partnership with the host institution Nottingham Trent University, this conference
brought together the art and design sector to both acknowledge and evaluate the work of
staff and students during the 2020-2021 COVID Lockdown. Further acknowledgement of
the changed landscape of higher education brought about by the pandemic came in the
form of the conference itself, which was conducted entirely online, and made use of
innovative SpatialChat software, which allowed delegated to mix informally outside of the
organised sessions. The conference attracted over 100 delegates from regional, national
and international locations. It provided a much needed pause after a sustained period of
intensity, uncertainty and change.