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 [...]

December 16, 2010  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Call for meetings, TEACHERS CONFERENCES  Comments Closed

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 [...]

October 8, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: NEWS  Comments Closed

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 [...]

August 21, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: COURSE REPORTS, NEWS  Comments Closed

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 [...]

August 16, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: ADMINISTRATION, Reeports from Meetings of Heads, Reports from meetings of coordinators  Comments Closed

MEETING OF TEACHERS IN ICELAND, JANUARY 2010

List of Participants The conference plenum, all participants on a rolling chair so they could socialize. Jóhannes Þórðarsson goes through proceedings. In January was held a very stimulating meeting in the Iceland Academy of the Arts. Cirrus thanks the Icelanders for a very smooth and entertaining program. This report will only note the main points. [...]

February 5, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Reports and Proceedings  Comments Closed

Nordic Design Research Conferences, Engaging Artifacts Oslo 2009

Cirrus member school The Oslo School of Architecture and Design 30. Aug.-1. Sep. Here is a link to the conference website Design research aims to provide new insights to the ways in which we understand – and do – design. The conference invites contributions from researchers in universities, design schools and industry who share an interest [...]

July 27, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: RESEARCH ACTIVITIES, Research Meetings  Comments Closed