Meeting of Teachers in Iceland, January 2010

4TH CIRRUS CONFERENCE 2010 – MEETING OF TEACHERS

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ICELAND ACADEMY OF THE ARTS

Thursday January 21st and Friday January 22nd

Reykjavík will host the 4th Meeting of Teachers in January 2010. 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 with these meetings is the general openness and participation of teachers in the proceedings as opposed to the many organizational meetings that have to be held in networks.

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The purpose of the Cirrus Network is to continue a very successful network of higher educational institutions within art and design and architecture initiated in 1990.

The main purpose is to sustain a global powerhouse in design through education and research in the Nordic-Baltic region.

Cirrus runs various intensive programs every year

  • A conference on curriculum development within master education.
  • Workshops or smaller meetings about specific areas within design, for example service design, social design and research.
  • Intensive projects where students and teachers exchange ideas and cooperate on predefined tasks.
  • Express mobility for common courses.

Curriculum development conference.

Cirrus runs a curriculum development conference every year. These are described separately in the applications for IP’s, but the objective of these is to stimulate new developments within design such as emerging fields where innovation, social responsibility and new pedagogic methodologies are discussed and tested. These can be conferences, workshops, courses or group exchanges.

It is considered of primary importance to include students in all the meeting points created by the Cirrus Network.

Workshops or smaller meetings.

Many partners in Cirrus run small working group meetings for development of common courses and common timetables. This will take place in the intermittent periods between the larger assemblies and conference and will focus more on master education, research and social responsivity.

Intensive and Development projects.

Partners are creating development projects and intensive courses. These are described in Apenndix and included in budget plan.

Express mobility for common courses.

In the last curriculum development conference it was decided to aim for common courses on the master level where many of the partners adhere to the same week in the semester for opening up opportunities for students to select courses in partner institutions. This model has been run successfully in our partner network KUNO and from that experience Cirrus wants to do the same. The first such express activity is to take place in the spring semester of 2009.

Results

  • Closer collaboration within the ‘old’ Nordic countries and the Baltic countries.
  • Curriculum development and benchmarking changing the studies in all the partner institutions.
  • Establishment of common courses within design, both on BA and MA level.
  • Express mobility. Develop short term student exchange in connection with common courses run simultaneously in the partner institutions.
  • Establishment of closer collaboration of the design innovation centers that the partner institutes run.
  • A development of research into one common design innovation policy for the Nordic-Baltic region.

    November 26, 2009   Posted in: Call for meetings, TEACHERS CONFERENCES

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