Dr Thea Stevens is Academic Development Lead and Academic Coordinator: Interdisciplinarity in the School of Design at the Glasgow School of Art. Thea has lectured and taught in design history, cultural heritage, and art and architectural history. Her research interests lie in compassionate feedback and assessment, interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary pedagogies, and issues around the tangible and intangible within heritage practice and interpretation, with recent focuses including GSA’s collection of plaster casts in relation to the archival, aura, and reproduction. Thea holds an MA in History of Art (University of Warwick) and an MA (Hons) in History of Art and Italian (University of Glasgow). She received a University of Glasgow Scholarship for her PhD thesis in History of Art (University of Glasgow). Thea has worked extensively in cultural heritage, for instance leading the University of Glasgow/Smithsonian George Mason Graduate Summer Field School Treasure Houses of Scotland: Royal Heritage.
tangible and intangible heritage
pedagogies in art and design higher education
tangible and intangible heritage
pedagogies in art and design higher education
Francesca Zappia. 'Reimagining pedagogical futures for the Glasgow School of Art plaster cast collection through curatorial research and practice: authenticity and reproduction at the intersection between contemporary art and heritage'
Xiaohan Lu. 'Adaptive Reuse of Warehouses in Glasgow’s Merchant City'
Sean Kinnear. 'Out of the Shadows: How secret nuclear bunkers constructed between 1950 and 1970 surreptitiously influenced Scotland's Post-War architecture'
Design Domain
DH&T and SIT Heritage Visualisation (guest lecturing)
