NEWS CURRENT AFFAIRS Working groups in Shanghai September 2010 | Working groups in Shanghai September 2010 |
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Provisionally Cumulus working groups are planned for Tuesday 7 September 2010 Time: 10.00 - 13.00
Venue: Shanghai Concert Hall, VIP Rooms, 523 YanAn Road
- Digital Culture - 10.00 - 12.00, contact person Frederic Degouzon, L'ecole de design Nantes Atlantique, f.degouzon[at]lecolededesign.com - Contemporary Art - contact person prof. Teemu Mäki, Aalto University School of Art and Design, teemu.maki[at]taik.fi - Sustainability - contact person prof. Peter Stebbing, HfG Swaebisch Gmuend, stebbing[at]hfg-gmuend.de - Interior + Furniture - 10.00-12.00, contact person Ass. Professor Nicolai de Gier, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Denmark nicolai.degier[at]karch.dk - Leaders' Forum - contact person - Helmut Lueckenhausen, Swinburne University, Australia CONTENTS - more information to come!
- Leaders' Forum Contact person - Helmut Lueckenhausen (hluckenhausen[at]Swinburne.edu.my), Swinburne University, Australia and invited speakers
The Management of the Chinese University - Governance,
Social Responsibility and Enterprise how the (typical) Chinese University is managed; what are the governance/authority structures including program accreditation (i.e. what happens through State and National authorities, what happen at the University level); how the University and its activities connect with and serve the community (society); how the University connects with industry, the professions, business etc.
- Contemporary Art Contact person: Prof. Teemu Mäki, Aalto University School of Art and Design This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it The contemporary art working group in the Cumulus network is a collaboration tool for those member institutions and people for whom contemporary art - instead of design - is the main focus of interest. The purpose of the meeting is to get connected and to continue discussion on the topics opened in the previous meeting (Genk 2010) and start some new ones: 1. PROFESSOR AND LECTURER EXHANGE Organized professor and lecturer exchange (minimum duration of stay 2 weeks, preferably 6-9 week periods. 2. PROPER ART EXHIBITIONS AS A PART OF CUMULUS CONFERENCES a) "A Day of Fine Arts" in Cumulus conferences (= lectures, meetings etc. focusing on contemporary art) b) Real exhibitions as a part of Cumulus conferences, exhibitions that stick out and make a difference in the art scene of wherever the conference takes place. 3. JOINT STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY ART ON MA-LEVEL - For example: A group of MA-students from two or more universities study together for at least a month, spending time in each partner university. The result is an exhibition that tours the universities. - Possibility of organizing a whole 2-year MA program as a joint effort between 2-3 universities. The teaching would be organized by all the partner universities in turn and the students would spend an equal amount of time in each university. 4. CONTEMPORARY ART SUMMER SCHOOL in which students of contemporary art, the upcoming artists from several universities can work together in projects. For example a REALITY WORKSHOP, where media/performance/activist art practices which use snippets of "authentic reality" as raw material are studied and used. Examples of this type of art: www.jannikelaker.com, http://www.nakadate.net http:// www.teemumaki.com/teemumakiinstallation.html 5. COLLABORATION IN ARTISTIC RESEARCH on doctoral and post-doc levels; forming more international research groups. For example ART & ECONOMY research group (leader: Teemu Mäki) is looking for suitable doctoral students, post-doc researchers and professors to join its efforts. 6. What else? Teemu Mäki, Artist, Professor, www.teemumaki.com 11.8.2010 1 In addition to informal discussion on these and other topics, professor Teemu Mäki will present two samples of the kind of art teaching where the students and the teacher together form a collective and make an artwork together: collective paintings and an multi-media installation about Chechnya. If you are interested in showing some materials, examples or some semi-prepared plan for a workshop, come with your laptop and be ready to share your ideas.
- SUSTAINABILITY Meeting's theme: Social Sustainability Five invited speakers presenting on Social Sustainability topics and OPEN TO ALL Conference delegates
Welcome & Introduction Peter Stebbing & Zhu Xiaocun 10.00 - 10.05 1 IDEO or ASP? 10.05 - 10.15 2 Cai Jun: Lens Project in Tshinghua 10.15 - 10.25 3 LOU Yongqi: 100 Innovation Hubs in Rural China 10.25 - 10.35 4 Dr Stuart Walker: Experiments in Design for (Social) Sustainability 10.35 - 10.45 5 Prof. Georg Bertsch: reflecting waters project - a cooperation with different institutions and ongoing project about water and sustainability 10.45 - 10.55 6 Gong Miaosen, Jiangnan University: Polite Design Experiences on Grassroots Social Innovation 10.55 - 11.05 7 Mariana Amatullo and Safe Agua team, Art Center College of Design: Project slums and water innovation: the Safe Agua project with the NGO Un Techo para Mi Pais 11.05 - 11.15 8 Open Discussion between panel of presenters and visiting delegates 11.15 -13.00
- DIGITAL CULTURE - 10.00 - 12.00
Chairs: Grégoire Cliquet Head of Interaction Design Studies and Frederic Degouzon, Head of Strategy, Research & International Development, L'Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique, France
A new session of the working group will take place during next Cumulus conference organised by Tongji University in Shanghaï, Sep. 7-11 2010. The working group itself is scheduled Tuesday 7th 10:00-13:00. This will be the occasion to relaunch the activity of the WG that has been quite sleepy for the last two years.
Cumulus conference Shanghaï "Better City, Better Life" website.
Orientation of the Shanghaï Session :
What is the state of Digital Culture in Shanghaï 2010 ? We need inner feedback from players in the local market. What are the trends, opportunities and threats in the vastest area in Asia concerning digital services, applications and media ? With the introduction of case studies (success stories, failures and errors also), explanation and analysis of creative processes & key factors in this specific context will be brought. Invited speakers Itamar Medeiros and Lynette Chan will be provide us with their vision for the future, and maybe tell us a bit about expectations and wishes for the evolution of design education in the field of interaction design, service design, digital media.
Session will be divided in two parts : - Digital Culture in Shanghaï 2010 : case studies Invited speakers : Itamar Medeiros User Experience Manager, Autodesk Shanghaï Local Coordinator Interaction Design Association (IxDA) http://cn.linkedin.com/in/designative
Lynette Chan Freelancer at Rennovate Former Lead of Creative Studio at Asentio and industrial designer at IDEO Shanghaï. http://cn.linkedin.com/in/lynnettechan
- State of the art and relaunch of the DC activity : who's in, who shall be in, what for ?
About Cumulus Digital Culture
Cumulus Digital Culture is a working group bringing together members of the CUMULUS Association dedicated to new media and interaction design. For a while now, digital technologies and services have appeared all around us on a worldwide scale. Art, design and media higher education institutions have taken into account this emerging and challenging trend pervading our societies. Many courses, curriculums, degrees and research projects have come to life over the past ten or fifteen years: ³new media, ³interaction design², ³multimedia/hypermedia² etcŠ Depending on each institution¹s own history, on the personal interests of the pioneering founders as well as on national and local contexts, many different options have been explored. It's now time to identify and to gather the various players in our institutions interested in what can be called a ³digital culture² in a broader sense. This working group is meant to be both a platform for discussion and exchanges about existing experiences and a framework for future collaboration, including the quite contemporary issue of research.
- INTERIOR + FURNITURE 10.00 - 12.00
Contact person Ass. Professor Nicolai de Gier, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Denmark nicolai.degier[at]karch.dk
Program for the meeting in the Interior and Furniture working group, Cumulus Shanghai conference 2010, 7th September, 10.00 -12.00 hrs.
1. Presentation - who is in the room, where do we come from, why are we here ? 2. The focus and aims of the working group - a proposal (presentation by NdG) - how can we work together? how can we benefit from each other? 3. How do we see the field of interior and furniture. -The danish approach (presentation by NdG) -examples of students work in the field. 4. Roundtable discussions 5. Conclusion - What actions to take?
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