In preparation for staff interviews (Verity Cleary and Ali Kornicki – I have not received further contact from Peter Bond) I have started to design micro interventions which i will continue to collect data about, reflect on, and improve throughout this process.
In presenting them to my colleagues in this way, I will then be able to receive meaningful and valuable peer feedback. Both Verity and Ali are specialist costume technicians working with the performance programmes, so are very well placed to review these ideas. Both Verity and Ali’s practices hold sustainability in high regard, and they both have instigated many systems and interventions to help students to work towards this is the space we supervise.
This includes:
- Open access support five days a week in the costume spaces, helping students to develop ideas, support them in planning, providing technical advice, materials advice, costume realisation guidance, showing them techniques and how to use the machinery correctly and efficiently
- Basic sewing board resource as visual and tactile reminder of basic skills (designed and implemented by by Verity Cleary)
- Basic sewing workshops (instigated by Verity Cleary)
- Sign-up workshops for use of machinery and tools in the costume space (instigated by Ali Kornicki)
- Fabric scraps library (instigated by Verity Cleary)
- Offering (sustainable) suppliers lists on moodle, as physical handouts, and now via QR codes (instigated by Ali Kornicki)
- Access to a well stocked costume store (longstanding resource)
- Fabric recycling bins for small scraps (instigated by Verity Cleary)
- Access to materials and haberdashery, collected from films, tv, and theatre productions. organised into navigable, labelled boxes around the studio (instigated by Verity Cleary)
- Access to a pattern and block library (time saving)
