"I Object Wednesdays"

Visit the UCL Object Based Learning Laboratory, a unique facility dedicated to teaching using UCL Collections and contemporary material culture.

Building on UCL’s long tradition of object-based learning and collections-based research, the Object Based Learning Lab is a space for academics and students to work with collections and archives to creatively share and learn.

Learn how academics are enhancing UCL students' learning using object based learning methodologies and how the OBL Laboratory has been designed to support these kinds of activities. To experience and learn more about this approach to teaching and researching, kindly reserve your spot for the day.

Each Wednesday during Term Three will have a different guest who will share their approach. The two-hour sessions will be divided between our guest speaker’s presentation and an object-based learning activity led by our speaker and the Object Based Learning Laboratory team.

Workshop information, dates and times

Wednesday 29 April, 2pm-4pm

Guest speaker Amanda Ford Spora (UCL Institute of Archaeology) will be presenting Whose meaning? Exploring objects across perspectives.

Wednesday 06 May, 2pm-4pm

Guest speaker Renata F. Peters (UCL Institute of Archaeology) will be presenting The Hard Tissue Lab: Identifying Bone, Horn, and Beyond?

Wednesday 13 May, 2pm-4pm

Guest speaker Delphine Mercier (UCL Ethnography Collections) will be presenting Thinking with objects.

Wednesday 20 May, 2pm-4pm

Guest speaker Thomas Kador (UCL Arts and Sciences) will be presenting In touch we trust: a double-blinded object handling experience?.

Wednesday 27 May, 2pm-4pm

Guest speakers Jo Baines, Chelsie Mok and Erika Delbecque (UCL Special Collections) will be presenting Object-based learning and Special Collections at UCL East: new campus, new collaborations.

Wednesday 03 June, 2pm-4pm

Guest speaker Helen Jury (UCL Arts and Sciences) will be presenting When objects do the talking: The touch and handling of objects and materials in Art Psychotherapy as a distinctive psychotherapeutic intervention.

Wednesday 10 June, 2pm-4pm

Guest speakers Kaja Marczewska and Erica Delbecque will be presenting (UCL Special Collections) Book Objects: creative approaches to teaching book and print history with UCL Special Collections.

Access

Access to the Object Based Learning Laboratory, is step-free. Further information can be found on the planning your visit page.

Finding us

The venue is located in Bloomsbury, in the heart of central London. The nearest tube stations are Euston Square (Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith & City), Goodge Street (Northern Line), Warren Street (Victoria Line), and buses 18, 30, 73, 134 and 205 stop three to five minutes away on Euston Road.