Editorial

Eclectic, visionary, incisive, relaxing, practical and entertaining. These epithets are not often associated with an academic conference. But the whole organising team, especially the administrators, speakers and presenters at IJADE 2021 rose to the considerable challenge of the International Journal of Art and Design Education’s first fully online global conference, held on 26-28 March 2021 (Riding, Sclater & Gregson, 2021). The team successfully blended intellectually challenging, spiritually uplifting and relaxing inputs into a perfect mélange for a stimulating and engaging conference. It was jointly organised and supported by a collaboration between Tate Liverpool; The Glasgow School of Art; Goldsmiths, University of London; Canterbury Christ Church University; the National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD) and Wiley. This was truly an interdisciplinary event, emboldening participants to engage in addressing societal, political and environmental impacts of their creative work; finding ways to address issues of participation, inclusion and access in challenging online and hybrid spaces in art and design education; and sensitively engaging in re-imagining sustainability, creativity and wellbeing in unforeseen times.