THE CIRRUS ADMIN MEETING IN OSLO
Delegates discussing during a coffee break.
The annual administrative meeting of Cirrus took place in the newly housed school in Oslo. The meeting was well attended and many new issues were brought up, but maybe the most discussed were the changes that are happening to design in the world generally and secondary to the design schools. We seem to be rather behind with our programs since the world of design is changing so fast with new technology and new media access. This is a challenge for our schools that have to look out for the strength of tradition, keeping in hand the quality and order of the past while responding to immense changes in information and product development. The most recent news is that in the English language there are over 2500 terms that include the word ‘design’.
Cirrus leader Halldór Gíslason recaps the year and hears ideas about further development of projects and exchanges.
The guests of course visited properly the new premises in Oslo and there was discussion about accommodation for our creative operations.
Coordinators working hard planning the coming year, exchange and cooperation projects.
October 21, 2011
Posted in: ADMINISTRATION, NEWS, Reeports from Meetings of Heads, Reports from meetings of coordinators
ANNUAL ADMINISTRATIVE MEETING IN OSLO
One of the new common spaces in the new Oslo National Academy where students from all disciplines can cooperate.
The annual general meeting of the network will take place in KHiO (The Oslo National Adademy of Art) on 13th and 14th of October. The program is very much the same every year, running the activities of exchange and cooperation projects. The program of the meeting is following:
Thursday 13th of October.
Day and Evening Program
Address: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Fossveien 24, 0551 Oslo
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08.30-09.00 Registration and coffee
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09.00-09.10 Welcome and introduction by Cecilie Broch Knudsen, Rector, Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
09.10-09.20 Welcome and introduction by Halldor Gislason, leader of Cirrus, Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
09.20-09.30 Presentation of Design by Stein Rokseth, Dean of Design, Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
09.30-10.00 “Les Jeudi Centre Pompidous” by Maziar Raein, Academic responsibility MA design, and MA design students
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10.00-10.15 Coffee and refreshments
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10.15-10.45 The new MA study “Kunst og offentlighet” at Visual Arts by Jørn Mortensen, Dean Visual Arts, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
10.45-12.00 Guided tour Oslo National Academy of the Arts
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12.00-13.00 Lunch
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13.00-14.00 Afternoon Sessions Reports of Activities.
- “Watercolour Workshop, Location Tjörn” by Lotta Kvist and Charlotte Sjödell, School of Design and Crafts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- “Cirrus Common Master Proposal” by Heikki Saros, Senior Lecturer, International Coordinator, LUAS Institute of Design and Fine Arts, Finland
14.00-14.15 Coffee and refreshments
14.15-16.00 Separate meetings for rectors and coordinators
18.00-19.00 Guided tour The Norwegian National Opera
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From 19.00 Dinner at Brasserie Sanguine, The Norwegian National Opera
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Friday 14th of October.
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08.30-09.00 Coffee
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09.00-11.00 Separate meetings for leaders and coordinators (Coffee and refreshments)
11.00-11.30 “Design Education, Social Development and Maputo, Mocambique” by Dagfinn Skoglund, Assistant Professor, Fashion and Costume Design, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
11.30-12.00 Summing up and conclusion of the meeting
12.00 Farewell and departure
Optional
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12.30-13.30 Lunch
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13.30 Guided tour The Oslo School of Architecture and Design.
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October 9, 2011
Posted in: TEACHERS CONFERENCES
MEETING OF TEACHERS IN TALLIN 10TH AND 11TH FEBRUARY 2011
ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF THE ARTS CONFERENCE SITE
The grand town of Tallinn will host the 5th Meeting of Teachers in February 2011. These meetings have become a regular feature in the activities of Cirrus and are considered valuable contributions to the development of teaching in general and the development of the MA in particular. What is considered of great value in these meetings is the general openness and participation of teachers in the proceedings as opposed to the many organizational meetings that are necessary in international networks.
The conference will adhere to the similar program, starting early on Thursday morning ending mid-day Friday, making it possible for delegates to make it home before the normal working week is over.
HERE IS THE PROGRAM DOCUMENT WITH ALL INFORMATION
From the hosts: Estonian Academy of the Arts:
We look forward to seeing you all and please keep in mind that we do encourage you to bring students with you to this symposium.
Please register your participation due January 10 by filling out the form at our website by clicking HERE!
Contact person: Maria Jürisson maria.jurisson@artun.ee (+372 626 7369)
Accommodation:
Tallink City Hotel (CLICK HERE!) – 54 EUR; includes buffet breakfast, morning sauna & gym; internet.
Please book your room directly, using the reference “Cirrus”: (hotelbooking@tallink.ee) (+372 6300 808)
December 16, 2010
Tags: art, baltic, design, estonia, nordic, scandinavian, tallinn Posted in: Call for meetings, TEACHERS CONFERENCES
WATERCOLOUR WORKSHOP IN SWEDEN
An exciting international workshop took place at the Nordic Watercolour Museum, during October 18th -22nd 2010. The workshop was a collaboration between the museum, HDK and Lund University.
This workshop offered an opportunity to explore the techniques of watercolour. The theme for the workshop was “LOCATION TJÖRN”. Tjörn is an island at the west coast of Sweden and a area in progress.
The workshop dealt with the challenges a designer of today may face using the artistic processes to develop opportunities to meet the needs of the community. The workshop ended with an exhibition at the museum.
The workshop ran a blog site to disseminate the results. Take a look!!
December 16, 2010
Tags: art, design, watercolour Posted in: COURSE REPORTS
AUTUMN MEETINGS IN LAHTI
Cirrus members on a tour through the Lahti school
The administrative annual meetings (Meeting of Coordinators and Meeting of Heads) of the Cirrus network took place by the invitation of the Lahti School of Design this autumn. The format of these meetings has become rather similar every year and is generally accepted as good. Apart from people going through the practical administrative issues this is great opportunity for the guests to get to know the host school, see the facilities and get to know the academic programs. Both to be well informed to be able to communicate to students and teachers at home and to comment and reflect on the methods in the school. In a way it is possible to say that these meetings are a kind of an informal quality assurance proceess whithout any policing involved. The Cirrus schools have very strong cooperation, both formally through our network, but also informally through the exchange of examiners between institutes, participation in academic evaluations from one institute to an other, cooperation in research on a person to person basis and institute to institute, and many other direct issues.
It was very informative and pleasant to visit the Lahti school. Heikki, Miie and Ari, had planned informative presentations from actors in the region and a social program including sauna. The Lahti school has developed with the growth of industry and transport in the region and it is very much linked to its homeland in production of industrial tools and components. This was interesting to learn and for the others to reflect over for their own relations to homelands. In earlier meetings we have also had discussions about intellectual property and financing when operating with outside bodies and many other issues. The Lahti school has long experience in this practice.
Studio in Lahti
The meeting finalized the establishment of a board that works with the leader between annual meetings, discussing strategy and assisting in decisions that have to be addressed. The first board consists of the leader Halldór Gíslason from Oslo, Tine Kjølsen from Danmark Design School and Maria Jürisson from the Estonian Academy.
There was a discussion about mobility. In the last season all the mobility was used up before the period was over. For this coming year Cirrus received slightly more fund for mobility, but it has not been taken into account that since the beginning of last year there are three more countries in the network and thus more students and teachers requiring mobility grants. In the meeting it was decided to apply separately next time for mobility of researchers. This is a natural development when there is an increased research activity in almost all the partner institutions.
There was general agreement that there is a great demand for intensive courses supported through express mobility. The has been working very well with lots of applications and it seems that the results are well disseminated well back to the members, the students get extra experience and there is little disruption to their home activity in their program.
The network has received support to do a feasibility study about a possible common master program in the region. There has been interest from some of the member institutions for this and during this winter there will be a small working group operational to look into this.
Many other issues came up and hopefully were lifted so that our network will be as operational as before, and various new strategic issues will be addressed during the coming months until the next application deadline March 1st. 2011.
We all thank Lahti school, students and staff for a very nice experience. Here is a public album from the event.
October 8, 2010
Posted in: ADMINISTRATION, NEWS
A POSITION IN CHINA FOR NORDIC COOPERATION
A position as Programme Manager at the Nordic Centre, Fudan University, Shanghai, is now open for applications.
The Nordic Centre has recently moved to its brand-new facilities – the ‘Nordic Centre Building’ – at Fudan University’s main campus in Shanghai. The Centre is quickly developing into a key collaboration platform for its Nordic member universities and leading Chinese universities – with Fudan University as the natural base.
The Programme Manager acts as an important link between the Nordic Universities, Fudan and other universities in the region. The daily activities of the Programme Manager consist of managing a versatile Sino-Nordic research and education platform in collaboration with the Fudan Foreign Affairs Office. In addition, the Programme Manager also maintains and develops links between the Centre and the Nordic community in Shanghai.
Here is the full announcement for those interested.
October 8, 2010
Tags: china, manager, nordic, scandinavian Posted in: NEWS
OPEN DESIGN COMPETITION FOR NORDIC DESIGN SCHOOLS
The Nordic countries have been invited to be guests of honor at the 2011 Paris Book Fair on March 17-21 at Porte de Versailles Conference Center. The decision was made by the Syndicat National de l’Edition, or SNE, French Publishers Association , in an Nov. 4, 2009 meeting. The Nordic Council of Ministers has incorporated the project into their “Norden i världen” programme on globalization.
Here is the competition call document
September 21, 2010
Posted in: NEWS
LOCATION TJÖRN
An exciting international workshop will take place at the Nordic Watercolour Museum, during October 18th -22nd 2010. The workshop is a collaboration between the museum, HDK and Lund University.
This workshop offers a unique opportunity to explore the techniques of watercolour. The theme for the workshop is “LOCATION TJÖRN”. Tjörn is an island at the west coast of Sweden and a area in progress.
The workshop will deal with the challenges a designer of today may face. We will use the artistic processes to develop opportunities to meet the needs of the community. The workshop ends with an exhibition at the museum.
Applicants needs a minimum of 50HECS from a BA/MA design programme.
Welcome to apply before September 17th 2010 to Lotta Kvist <mailto:lotta.kvist@hdk.gu.se>
All cirrus network institutions are invited to join and the students get accomodation and travel paid.
September 14, 2010
Posted in: COURSE REPORTS, NEWS
VISUAL COMMUNICATION IN NUUK, GREENLAND
By the invitation of NAPA – The Nordic Institute in Greenland – and funded by Cirrus, KHiO in Oslo, LHÍ in Reykjavik will run an intensive course in visual communication in Nuuk during the first week of September.
The course has a special operational website. Here is a link to it.
The course will concentrate on the Inuit visual language and cultural development in graphic design. Students are to participate in seminars and research in Nuuk, looking through anthrophological material and develop as a group (not individually) a reflection in visual language that will be displayed in the end and to the Cirrus community at large. There are 6 student places available.
Course leaders are Guðmundur Oddur Magnússon, professor of graphic design in the Iceland Academy of the Arts, and Halldór Gíslason, professor in design strategy in the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
The details of the course are the following:
- Arrival in Reykjavik 29th August.
- Transit in Reykjavik.
- Leaving Reykjavik 30th August to Nuuk.
- Returning from Nuuk to Reykjavik 6th of September.
- Departure from Iceland 7th of September.
The course is 1 ECTS credit.
The Cirrus schools will publish the outcome of the workshop/research, visual material and reflections about the practice of such a workshop.
August 21, 2010
Tags: art, design, graphic, greenland, nordic, nuuk Posted in: COURSE REPORTS, NEWS
ANNUAL ADMINISTRATIVE MEETING IN FINLAND
This autumn the Lahti Design School is inviting the Cirrus leaders and coordinators for the annual autumn administrative meeting. The meeting will take place from Wednesday evening 22nd September, ending Friday afternoon 24th September. It will be interesting for Cirrus members to visit this school. Apart from regular administrative themes in the meeting it has been decided to concentrate on the cooperation between the school and the region that it operates in. This is somewhat special for the Lahti school and it will be interesting to learn about how they work with the regional businesses, and industry as well designers and artists.
August 16, 2010
Tags: art, baltic, creative industries, design, nordic Posted in: ADMINISTRATION, Reeports from Meetings of Heads, Reports from meetings of coordinators
