Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Jo Hassall
Senior Lecturer
Jo Hassall is a Senior Lecturer in Graphic Arts and Design. Her practice-based research explores ways in which visual props can activate sites of learning.
With an established background in illustration and collage processes – current areas of work extend these methods within an educational context to explore and illuminate processes of study. The focus of her PhD was around the notion of the bricoleuse as hostess of the learning space, integrating bricolage and feminist pedagogic approaches to trigger playful and accessible space for critical enquiry, design thinking and making.
Research Interests
Jo is a member of feminist art collective, F=. Working collaboratively and with students and wider communities in the design and delivery of public events, using spectacle and humour to query, disrupt and explore mechanisms for social and political engagement and change making. This model of practice has helped shape both the curriculum and the student experience and community participation at a local level and nationally and internationally across art and design, feminist practices and educational fields of practice.
Collaborative and individual research projects and outcomes include conference papers, workshops, performance lectures, journal articles and co-design and delivery of graduate summer school, The Exploding University, forged through cross-university partnerships to explore the potential of collaborative learning space for socially engaged design.
Selected Outputs
-
Hassall J (2017) Architecture, Festival and the City. In: 14th AHRA International Conference. School of Architecture and Design, Birmingham City University.
-
Hassall J (2017) Provocative Pedagogies. In: International Conference, School of Education, University of Lincoln.
-
Hassall J (2017) Ideas of Revolt. In: Graphic Design Educators Network Conference, Sheffield Hallam University.
-
Hassall J (2017) Playful Learning. Metropolitan University.
-
Hassall J (2017) Practice as Research Symposium. Leeds Arts Research Centre [LARC] Leeds Beckett University.
-
Hassall J (2017) #DEAP17. In: #DEAP17, 1 July 2017, Leed Beckett University.
-
Hassall J (2017) Speak, body: Art, the Reproduction of Capital and the Reproduction of Life. 1 April 2017, Faculty of Arts Humanities and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds.
-
Hassall J (2015) Off Her Hostess-Trolley: Telling it a Different Way.
-
Hassall J Off Her Hostess Trolley Leeds Central Library.
More information: http://www.fequals.co.uk/
-
Hassall J Menopause Manifesto Pigdog and Monkeyfestos, Airspace Gallery. Stoke-on-Trent.
More information: http://www.airspacegallery.org/index.php/projects/pigdogandmonkeyfestos
-
Hassall J Big Screen Millennium Square, Leeds. 1 March 2017.
-
Hassall J Festival of the Body Leeds City Library.. 1 March 2016.
More information: http://www.fequals.co.uk/
-
Hassall J Freedom Bin Leeds City Centre, Leeds Central Artspace, Leeds City Library. 1 March 2015.
More information: http://www.fequals.co.uk/
-
Hassall J Pigdogandmonkeyfestos Airspace Gallery. Stoke-on-Trent. 1 May 2014 - 1 June 2014.
More information: http://www.airspacegallery.org/index.php/projects/pigdogandmonkeyfestos
-
Hassall J Burning the Bra Leeds City Centre. 1 March 2014.
More information: http://www.fequals.co.uk/
-
Hassall J (2016) Learning Through Visual Props [Online]
-
Hassall J (2016) VaroomLab Journal 4: Visionaries. VaroomLab Journal 4
http://theaoi.com/varoom-mag/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/VaroomLab-Journal-Issue4-Visionaries.pdf
-
Hassall J (2015) Off Her Hostess-Trolley: Telling it a Different Way.
-
Hassall J (2015) Walk & Talk: On Foot Together; The Walk as a Site of Research, Action and Play Held at: Arnolfini, Bristol.
More information: http://www.conwayandyoung.com/news-2/
-
Hassall J (2015) We Want People Who Can Draw Held at: MMU.
More information: http://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/events/2015/we-want-people-who-can-draw/
-
Hassall J
. (n.d.) ‘The Ultimate Pillow’. http://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/events/2015/we-want-people-who-can-draw/%20%20http://www.conwayandyoung.com
-
Hassall J
. (n.d.) F=. -
Hassall J
. (n.d.) Robinson Stirling. -
Hassall J
. (n.d.) ‘Burn the Bra’. Leeds: -
Hassall J
. (n.d.) 'Shop Fronts & Sinks: An Illustrated Search for Myself in Shiny Surfaces’. The Gallery, Munro House.: -
Hassall J
. (2017) Women in the City. 1 March 2017. -
Hassall J
. (2016) Parity like it’s 2069. 1 November 2016. South Square Gallery, Bradford:http://www.southsquarecentre.co.uk/index.php?/gallery/future/
-
Hassall J
. (2016) Leeds Cultural Conversations. 1 March 2016. Centre for Culture and the Arts and Leeds City Council, Leeds Town Hall, Leeds: -
Hassall J
. (2015) Varoomlab Visionaries. 1 November 2015. Birmingham City University:https://theaoi.com/varoom/back-issues/back-issues/varoom-31-the-visionaries-issue-2/
-
Hassall J
. (2015) Project Radio. 1 October 2015. &model Gallery, Leeds.:http://www.projectradio.uk/f-introduce-women-visibility-and-playful-acts/
-
Hassall J
. (2015) Symplasium. 1 September 2015. The Tetley, Leeds: -
Hassall J
. (2015) Visibility and Playful Acts Conference 2. 1 March 2015. Leeds Central Library Artspace, Leeds City Library: -
Hassall J
. (2014) Women, Visibility and Playful Acts. 1 March 2014. The Gallery, Munro House, Leeds.: F=.
-
Hassall J (2016) Exploding the University.
-
Hassall J (2015) Breaking and Entering.
-
Hassall J (2015) After Nature.
-
Hassall J (2015) After Nature –15.
-
Hassall J (2014) Collaborative Practices in Arts Education.