Saturday July 13th 2024

The Studio 10-4pm

Come join Paul Jackson for a full day exploring and improving your ability to think and design more fluently in the third dimension, using the medium of paper. Over his years of teaching, one of the things he recognised was the struggle artists and designers have to think truly in the third dimension. As a result, he has developed a series of simple exercises in folded paper, that will push your experience and develop your design thinking.

This course is suitable for any designers, makers or educators in design/art/math/STE(A)M. It is aimed to stimulate your understanding of the third dimension and to push you in your design ideas.

His new book ‘Thinking and Designing in the Third Dimension’ will be released in Oct 2024.

What is included?

· Materials and tools are provided on the day.

· Handout to take home and use for future designing

· Refreshments of tea, coffee and biscuits.

Timings

10:00 -12:00 Theory/Design/Practice

12:00 -13:00 Lunch BYO

13:00-16:00 Practical exercises

Please arrive 15 min before the start of class. More details will be emailed 1 week before the class.

The Studio

7-9 Glassworks

Lancaster LA1 1NZ

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Paul's CV

TEDxShenkarCollege Beyond the Fold with Paul Jackson

Born near Leeds, England and Fine Art educated, Paul Jackson has been a professional paper artist, paper engineer, writer and teacher since 1983, specializing in origami and the folded arts.  He was one of the first origami professionals in the West.

He has written more than 40 books, the first of which were origami books for adults and children.  His more recent books have been about the application of folding techniques into design, a subject he has taught in more than 80 Universities and Colleges in 13 countries, to Design Students of many disciplines, including Fashion, Architecture, Ceramics, Jewellery, Product Design and Textiles.

He was one of the pioneers of folding/origami as Fine Art and has exhibited his folded artworks in many galleries and museums.  He has also curated several ground-breaking exhibitions of origami, undertaken many commercial commissions for print, screen-based media, festivals and more, and has been a consultant for companies such as Siemens, Nike, Tetra-Pak and Tata.

In 2000, he married the Israeli origami artist and educator, Miri Golan, founder of the Israeli Origami Center (1993) and moved to Israel.  Miri and Paul founded the Folding Together project and the Origametria programme of using origami to teach geometry www.origametria.com .  In 2018, Origametria was accepted by the Israeli Ministry of Education into the National Mathematics Curriculum and is studied weekly by 30,000+ children of Primary School age.

In 2017, he was awarded the Sydney French Medal at the 50^th Anniversary Convention of the British Origami Society, ‘in recognition of his outstanding contributions to origami’.

He lives in Herzliyya, Israel and holds duel UK and Israeli citizenship.  He still hopes one-day, to open the batting for Yorkshire.