SERVICE DESIGNING HIGHER EDUCATION

Frustrated that an army of politicians, bureaucrats, auditors, managers and administrators has failed to offer an innovative vision for higher education, Andrew Polaine (founder of the esteemed new media agency AntiRom, and a professor at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts) has decided to take the initiative. He's launched a project called "Creative Waves COTEN -Service Designing Education" to explore two questions: How might we we re-imagine the structure and experience of higher education using service design techniques? and, can service design be used in a purely online, collaborative environment? Andrew is convinced that service design can make a difference due to its focus on the entire ecology of a service. Andrew invites you to apply your most innovative thinking to the problem.

http://tiny.cc/atdlr
http://www.creativewaves-coten.com/project/

Education = Video + Game

Just heard from a secondary school teacher that the final essay for General Studies required by the Examination Authority is 5,000 words. It is ridiculous if a BA course final essay is only 3,000 words. So the other option can be to produce a 20 + minutes video and a shorter essays. bUt that is equally ridiculous because for a good video essay especially 20 minutes long requires the effort of a team of TV professional, journalists, so I guess the quality of video writing is expected to be low or minimal.

I am thinking of the copyright issue and if there are suddenly over 100,000 videos produced, there will be many students:
1. buying camera
2. need help in editing
3. want to see the past project for reference

We are forced to leave the words and the poetry behind. Do we teach media literacy in General Studies ?

Last year I did a bit of research on how new media change educations and knowledge management and I was immediately attracted to teaching via gaming and here is a recent post in the Economist that talks about teaching thru video game.


and the video

Open Everything - Serendipity35: Peer 2 Peer University

Open Everything - Serendipity35

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P2PU is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses. The pilot "semester" has registration through August 26 and the courses will start on September 9. The semester is 6 weeks.
The courses being offered are:
Introduction to Concepts in Behavioral Economics and Decision Making-
-Copyright for Educators-
-Introduction to Cyberpunk Literature-
-Land Restoration and Afforestation-
-Open Creative Nonfiction - Take Away Narratives-
-Poker and strategic thinking

social media explained

Still don't know the buzz word?

Art and the New Culture City: Hong Kong, China and the World Art System

Friday, October 3, 2008
9:00am-5:30pm
Leavey Library Auditorium, University of South California
association with the visit of artist Choi Yan-chi, this one-day symposium examines the current rise of international interest in Chinese contemporary art in relation to the politics of its contexts of production in the new art spaces and studio districts at the core of China’s economic transformation.

Panel 1:
"HK 97+10': Art and the City In-Between"
Speaker: Choi Yan-chi, Artist, Co-founder, Hong Kong Baptist University, Provost's Distinguished Visitor, USC
"Beyond Beyond"
Speaker: Matthew Turner, Professor of Design, School of Creative Industries, Napier University

Panel 2:
"Rise of China as an Aesthetic Question"
Speaker: Richard Kraus, Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
"Multicentric Themes in Chinese Time-based Art"
Speaker: Meiling Cheng, Associate Professor of Theatre/Critical Studies and English, USC

Panel 3:
Visual Presentation: "Hong Kong Art Outside the Limelight'"
Speaker: Choi Yan-chi, Artist, Co-founder, Hong Kong Baptist University, Provost's Distinguished Visitor, USC

Panel 4:
"When East Really is West: A Look at Some Models of Cultural DupliCities"
Speaker: Henry Tsang, Artist; Head, Critical & Cultural Studies, Emily Carr University of Art & Design
"The Struggle to Make Space for Art in an Era of Creative Industry"
Speaker: Carolyn Cartier, Associate Professor of Geography, USC

Panel 5:
"Emergence: Contemporary Chinese Art in Beijing and LA"
Speaker: Karon Morono, Co-owner, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles
"Hybridity as Cultural Capital"
Speaker: Jenny Lin, Doctoral Student, Department of Art History, UCLA

"Competition of Making Flowers"

Choi Yan-chi
Artist, Co-founder, Hong Kong Baptist University, Provost's Distinguished Visitor, USC

Thursday & Friday, October 2nd and 3rd, 2008
9:00am-5:00pm Exhibit
Lindhurst Gallery, USC School of Architecture, 2nd Floor

Sponsored by the East Asian Studies Center, Provost's Distinguished Visitor's Program, U.S.-China Institute and USC College Visual Studies program, and made possible by a generous grant from the Freeman Foundation.

Please rsvp to eascrsvp@usc.edu.

Sponsored by the East Asian Studies Center, Provost's Distinguished Visitor's Program, and Visual Studies

A new MBA

Design is the future of business so the California Collage of Arts decided to start this new program: MBA in Design Strategy. The first class start in Fall 2008.

The innovative MBA in Design Strategy, which will enroll its first class of students in fall 2008, unites the studies of design, finance, and organizational management in a unique curriculum aimed at providing students with tools and strategies to address today's complex and interconnected market. The program's approach encompasses performance, strategy, innovation, and the encouragement of meaningful, sustainable social change.

I think the Chinese University MA program on cultural management should start thinking about a MBA.

Education is biggest business of all.

MAAP Media Art Mentorship Program

MAAP - Multimedia Art Asia Pacific is calling for applications from young and emerging curators and artists working with a focus in media art projects that intersect or consider connections with the Asia Pacific regions to undertake a three-month mentorship.

The mentorship enables an emerging artist or curator to explore new creative directions, increase knowledge of networks, debates and to expand practical skills. Applicants are invited to select a mentor and develop a program of activity spanning a three-month period. The mentor may be accessed locally, nationally or internationally. In some cases MAAP can assist identifying suitable mentors.

Applicants must be Australian media art practitioners or curators who are 30 years or under. The mentorship will provide a fee for the mentee ($7,200 excl GST) and a fee for the mentor ($1,800 excl GST). The mentorship program should be completed by February 2008.

Other Australian Media Arts organsiations ANAT, d.lux and Experimenta are also offering mentorships: + ANAT will encompass distributed, portable, online, wearable, gaming, mobile and emerging platforms, contact Gavin Artz manager@anat.org.au + d.lux will hold their mentorship inside Second Life or a similar online virtual community, contact malcolm@dlux.org.au for more information + Experimenta's focus is on Site Related and/or Public Work, contact kentia@expeirmenta.org for more information.

MAAP APPLICATIONS CLOSE Friday 17 AUGUST 2007

For further information, guidelines and an applications form please contact:

Kim Machan, director kim@maap.org.au
MAAP-Multimedia Art Asia Pacific

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Young and Emerging Artists Initiative through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.MAAP gratefully acknowledges the contract draft administration support offered by CraftSouth

DANUBE TELE LECTURES

The next DANUBE TELELECTURE will take place on Sunday, 27th May 2007 at 17.00h at MUMOK in Vienna with

* Christiane PAUL, curator for New Media at the Whitney Museum/New York, author of "Digital Art" (Her Interview with Sutherland U)

* Paul SERMON, international renowned media artist and professor at the University of Salford/Manchester


The lectures of aprox. 30 minutes will be followed by public discussions. Internet users can participate via email.

Class for Sex and industrial design

Wouldn't it be fun to have a real class in Hong Kong? The online class Design Areobics is offer by Design Boom.
sex, one of the most basic human acts and instincts, is a main topic of exploration for many talented people in the creation of artwork. this course is not about hardcore pornography. it’s about the way we portray sex, through our creative process. lessons feature thought provoking essays and inspiring examples from art, to photography, to graphic- and industrial
design.

course introduction: 10 lessons
Lesson 1:
sex(taboo subject in society?)

Lesson 2:
the boundaries of politically correct(normalization of pornography)

Lesson 3:
'sex sells'(how advertising walks the fine line between prudish and vulgar imagery).

Lesson 4:
banned advertising

Lesson 5:
some things never change(sex, drugs and rock’n roll)

Lesson 6:
history of the nude

Lesson 7:
skin

Lesson 8:
mirrors

Lesson 9:
beauty

Lesson 10:
beate uhse
(the queen of sex shops)

creativity skills / general training practise: 10 lessons
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Lesson 11:
hedonism

Lesson 12:
sexual appeal

Lesson 13:
compulsively visual and tactile

Lesson 14:
highly overt versus extremely subtle

Lesson 15:
magazine covers

Lesson 16:
fucking brilliant or just a shitty idea?

Lesson 17:
obsession and fantasy

Lesson 18:
seductive paradoxes

Lesson 19:
the condom

Lesson 20:
togetherness

sex in the design context: 10 lessons
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Lesson 21:
in the realm of the senses(sex and graphic design)

Lesson 22:
design is his way(sex and typography)

Lesson 23:
porno or erotic art?(sex and photography)

Lesson 24:
in everyday life(sex and design)

Lesson 25:
the lolita phenomenon(sex and fashion)

Lesson 26:
adornment and body modification(sex and jewelry)

Lesson 27:
the phallus(sex and architecture)

Lesson 28:
aphrodisiacs(sex and food)

Lesson 29:
in the social swim(sex and interior design)

Lesson 30:
high end tools(sex toys by designers)