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6 seats open to an intensive course in Lapland, 5.2 – 9.2.2018

CIRRUS IP “Nature, Design and Innovation”,
3 ECTS
6 student seats open for the whole network
Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland
5.2. – 9.2. 2018 (arrival 4.2. and departure 10.2.)

The Faculty of Art and Design in the University of Lapland hosts joint Cirrus workshop on nature, design and innovation. Other organizing partners are Iceland Academy of the Arts and Estonian Academy of Arts.

Overall objects of the workshop:

  • To create awareness and hands-on experience for innovative design opportunities linked with nature context and materials
  • To learn concept and prototyping in the cross section of traditional and modern techniques
  • To familiarize students with themes on innovation and entrepreneurship, integrated into the workshop content through lectures and visits

Content:

The workshop focuses on nature as an important part of the design concept, and addresses developing innovative design concepts and prototypes on the theme. The workshop theme Arctic Design, emphasizing the special nature characters of the Lapland area and arctic environment as design context and inspiration. Interactive design concepts and prototypes are developed along with the guidelines of sustainability and nature respect, targeting to innovative designs. The workshop and laboratory premises at Faculty of Art and Design provide good and versatile facilities for design work, industrial design with both traditional and modern equipment, interactive prototypes (e.g. sensor kits, soldering), and service design laboratory SINCO, which supports co-design with embodied techniques. During the workshop, the students go through the design process from background information in the context, concept design, and prototyping. The workshop consists of joint lectures and visits to local companies and producers, as well as of group works with final presentations.

Outcomes:

Awareness and skills for creating innovative designs in the cross-section of traditional and modern design techniques, with the focus on nature context and materials. Design concepts and prototypes developed during the course.

Six (6) students will be selected from Cirrus network partner schools, in addition to organizing schools’ 18 students.

The accommodation is organized in a dormitory. Students will receive a grant to cover the travel and accommodation costs.

Level: BA and MA students

The teachers of the workshop are:

Prof. Jonna Häkkilä, University of Lapland
Prof. Lennart Mänd, Estonian Academy of Arts
Prof. Gardar Eyjolfsson, Iceland Academy of the Arts
Pertti Aula, university teacher, University of Lapland
Ashley Colley, university researcher, University of Lapland

Application process:  To apply for a CIRRUS network student place, write a max. one page letter describing your motivation and background, and email it to jonna.hakkila@ulapland.fi by 10.1.2018. Title your email with ‘Application for Nature, Design and Innovation’. Decisions on selection are announced by 14.1.2018.
Students from organizing institutes (University of Lapland, Iceland Academy of the Arts, and Estonian Academy of Arts), to apply, please contact your professor who is listed as a teacher for the course.

 

 

 

CIRRUS network meeting and teachers seminar 2018

Welcome to 2018 CIRRUS Oslo MEETING for teachers, leadership and international coordinators at Oslo Met, Kunnskapsveien 55, Kjeller.

Schedule_CIRRUS_2018_Oslo

Network meeting HIOA Oslo Met 2018 (pdf full programme to download)

 

REGISTRATION & PAYMENT
The meeting takes place in HIOA, Oslo, from March 7 – 9, 2018.
The fee is 150 EUR/1500 NOK. This covers the participation at all events including coffee-breaks, dinners and lunches.
The payment can be made here until March 23, 2018. 

THEME
Our main theme at the Oslo HIOA meeting will be how we as design schools balance between “analogue” and “digital” teaching in our curricula.The overall theme also raises parallel perspectives like; “Physical” versus “Virtual”, “New” versus “Old” or “Crafts” versus “Automation”. The theme will be covered in the leaders meetings as well as in the teachers in workshops. We will have both practical workshops and discussion workshops. More specifically, we present subjects like:

  • 3D clay printing, how to teach students to learn – with 3D printing as a pedagogical tool.

  • We wish to discuss digital strategies for learning; additive and subtractive design processes (wood, metal, and textile)

  • Our department is active in the field of design for health – for instance covering subjects like; how art theory in haptics meets orthopedic technology and how design can improve everyday lives of the chronically ill.

    Cirrus workshop topics for Teachers Seminar:
    Please 

    1: Futuristic Scenarios
    What is the future, tomorrow and after? How will User / User behavior be and what materials will be a part of the daily lives?

    Keywords: Playfulness / seriousity
    Creativity / mindfulness
    Collaboration / group work
    Facilitator: Nils Seiersten. Associated Professor / Industrial Designer

    2: 3d print as an analogue and a digital process
    If the process of designing is the process of learning , what do digital media bring to the table?
    The workshop is conceptualized as an experiment that sheds light on the design process directions and unconscious choices designers make according to the skills they have.
    The workshop includes physical prototyping and discussions.
    Facilitator: Nenad Pavel. PhD-student / Industrial Designer

    3: Workshop on Clay Printing
    Clay agency in additive manufacturing
    The workshop will focus on materials, processes and the aesthetic aspects of 3D / Clay printing. What is common knowledge? What will be the next step? Challenges and opportunities.
    For inspiration and info on what is going on in this area, please look up: https://3dclayprinting.com/
    Facilitator: Kristin Andreassen. Associated Professor / artist in clay

    4: Heath + Design = X(perience)
    The Oxford dictionary defines experience as the process of getting knowledge or skill from doing, seeing, or feeling things. If it is a process of discovery that lies at the heart of an experience, how does a design process influence this process? In this workshop we invite you to think, explore, and share on how Design can add to a meaningful healthcare experience.
    Facilitators: Julia Jacoby and Laila Steen. PhD-students / Product and Industrial Designers.

HOTEL

52 rooms have been reserved in Smarthotel Oslo. The cost per night is NOK 795/€ 81.
The participants should order hotel room like this:

  • Call  +47 415 365 00 or send an e-mail to post.oslo@smarthotel.no containing this information: Name and the booking code CIRRUS.
  • Please also give up the number of your credit card (16 digits) and the cards expiration date – to guarantee your booking.
  • Everybody will automatically get rooms from March 7-9, if you need to stay longer, please state so, when booking.
  • The reservations can stand until February 5.

 

Call for proposals, Nordplus 2018 projects

CALL for applications for Nordplus Higher Education programme through CIRRUS network
DEADLINE: January 22, 2018, to be sent to sandra.mell@artun.ee

The Nordplus programme has shifted its deadline and is now February 1 (used to be March 1).
By January 22, we need your project descriptions along with the budget file in order to insert it in the application system of Nordplus. Please use Nordplus Handbook 2018 (pages 26 – 34) or turn to CIRRUS coordinator to find out more.

The type of projects that we are waiting for are:

  1.  INTENSIVE COURSES (please use the forms below)
    1.1 download CIRRUS_IC_CALL_2018 FORM  +
    1.2.Nordplus-CIRRUS_IC_budget_ENG_2018
  2. JOINT STUDY PROGRAMMES
    2.1 download CIRRUS_JSP_CALL_2018 form
    2.1 Nordplus_CIRRUS  Model Budget_JSP_DP_2018
  3. DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
    3.1 DOWNLOAD CIRRUS_DP_CALL_2018
    3.2 Nordplus_CIRRUS  Model Budget_JSP_DP_2018

MORE IN DETAIL: (copied from NP handbook)

Intensive courses
Nordplus Higher Education awards grants for intensive courses lasting between one week (five working days) and one month. Courses may take place during term time or in the summer by way of short courses, symposiums, master classes or workshops. Intensive courses must include students and academic staff from at least three different countries. The courses must yield ECTS points and must be recognised as part of the students’ degree. The number of ECTS points should be stated in the application.
PhD students may act as teachers on intensive courses. They are not eligible for a grant if they are students in the programme. The same intensive course can be granted Nordplus funding for three consecutive years but annual applications must be submitted. It is recommended that the hosting institution is rotated.

Joint study programmes
Nordplus Higher Education awards grants for development of joint study
programmes.
Nordplus joint study programmes are defined as follows:
– Programmes are full-degree study programmes established according
to national legislation.
– Programmes lead to a degree recognised by national authorities.
– Degree certificates with a Diploma Supplement are issued according to
national legislation.
– Mobility is integrated into the programme setup.
– Programmes are developed jointly, and all courses and study units
should be approved by all participating parties.
– The collaborative venture is governed by a signed agreement defining
its aims as well as the roles of the participating parties.
The same joint study programme can be granted Nordplus funding for three consecutive years but annual applications must be submitted. Joint study programmes are complex processes. HEIs can combine Nordplus and Nordic Master grants in various ways. More information on Nordic Master is available on www.nordicmaster.org. The website consists
also of many useful handbooks and guides on joint programmes.

Development projects
Nordplus Higher Education offers grants for innovative development projects within the field of Higher Education.
Apart from joint curriculum planning and joint
modules, projects may focus on issues such as:
– Collaboration with the labour market
– Quality assurance
– The dissemination and use of results achieved by networks and projects
– The development of collaborations with other institutions in the public
or private sectors as well as non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
within Higher Education
– The development of new teaching methods.
The same project can be granted Nordplus funding for three consecutive years but annual applications must be submitted.

Urban Gaming Workshop

4.2.-10.2.2018 in Vilnius
Urban Gaming Workshop

Urban Gaming workshop is a Cirrus Intensive Course organized in Vilnius by Aalto University, Vilnius Academy of Arts and the Icelandic Academy of Arts.

The workshop theme is public space communication and intervention by means of participatory games and act of playing – in other words, benign gamification of urban and social design. In the workshops, the participants will create concepts for different kinds of participatory games taking place in public space. By site-specific approach, the communication can be delivered to the specific part of the city concerned or the whole city.

The teachers in charge of the course are Tarja Nieminen, Ausra Lisauskiene, Sam Rees and Lode Coen

We are looking for five (5) participants from CIRRUS schools (other than the organizing ones, that is) to participate in the workshop. The course is targeted to visual communication, graphic design, media, design and architecture students, but also others are welcome to express their interest. Both BA and MA students can participate. Aalto University will arrange flight tickets and accommodation, and there will be a number of meals included.

The call for participants is open 27.11.-5.12.2017 and if you are interested send Tarja Nieminen (tarja.nieminen@aalto.fi) a motivation letter and either a pdf portfolio of about three relevant projects (please mind the size of the file) or link to your net  portfolio. The selection criteria are the motivation and building a multidisciplinary group with diverse skills and experience.

The results will be announced on 8.12.2017 and all students will be informed on them. Those selected to participate will receive information on what to do next.

If you have any questions on the application process, please be in touch with Hanna Karkku (hanna.karkku@aalto.fi).

 

Digital Weaving. Express course in Bergen, 2018

Digital weaving

The Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen, will host a workshop in digital weaving, and invites students from all Cirrus institutions to attend the course.

Title of course: Digital Weaving
Teaching period: 5 February – 2 March 2018
Teacher(s): Jon Pettersen
ECTS: 6
Number of available place for Cirrus students: 2
Level: BA/MA
CIRRUS grant available: 330 travel (660 Iceland) EUR + weekly allowance 70 EUR

 

The course is aiming to provide extended knowledge about methods related to digital weaving. The course will provide:
• Skills in independent use of software and looms (TC-1 / TC-2 / Digital Jacquard)
• Insight into how we can exploit opportunities for systematic experiments
• Background for adaptation to industrial methods and external production

Course Content
• Development of ideas and visual starting points for further processing into woven expressions.
• Theory on principles and testing of methods for creating motive / pattern / texture / volume.
• Introduction and use in bindings and composition in 2 or more thread systems.
• Testing opportunities for variation in yarn types, density, texture and colors.
• Introduction and specialized use of software: Weavepoint, Photoshop, Nedgraphics (Texelle / Product Creator).

Organization of the course
Participants should make a project description, plan the work and collaborate on the implementation of the project. The work must be documented and presented for the group.

The Department of Fine Art collaborates with one of the leading weaving companies in Norway, and if the timing fits into their program, the course participants will, at the end of the course, be given the opportunity to produce works prepared during the course at Innvik AS in Stryn.

External participants will be accepted based on application and motivation letter. Please send your application to tale.vik@uib.no no later than 24 November.
For more information about the course, contact the course teacher, associate professor Jon Pettersen: jon.pettersen@uib.no

Digital weaving 2017

Poster design workshop, 20.-24.11. Vilnius Academy of Arts

Poster design workshop with graphic designer Esa Ojala (Helsinki, Finland)

 

2017 November 20 – 24th (arrival on 19th of November and departure on 25th of November)
CIRRUS seats: 3
VAA Vilnius faculty, Graphic design department, Maironio str. 3, Vilnius, Lithuania
Level: BA students
2 ECTS
CIRRUS grant: 330 EUR travel (660 Iceland) + 70 EUR weekly allowance

Please send a motivation letter to Asta Jackute by e-mail:  asta.jackute@vda.lt

Application deadline: 9th of November, 2017.
Decisions on selection are announced by November 10th, 2017.

 

Graphic Design department of Vilnius Academy of Arts is hosting Cirrus express course/workshop on poster design. The workshop consists of joint lectures. Students will create a contemporary posters using different materials and techniques.

 

3 students will be selected from Cirrus network partner schools.

 

About lecturer

Esa Ojala (https://goo.gl/p47SXv) is one of the founders of the Finnish design school creating the projects of visual communication design that meets the highest international standards.
The designer leads international workshops at Finnish design schools, including Aalto University, and awarded for the merits of Finnish design and culture throughout the world (State Design Award 1990; Best Graphic Designer of the Year 2000, etc.), which published important essays on contemporary graphic design (Essa Ojala’s POSTERS 2000; Esa Ojala IDENTITIES (2006).

 

 

Timetable

 

Monday 20th

09:00 – 12:00 Presentation lecture of the workshop.

12:00 – 13:00 A break.

13:00 – 17:00 Students are working

 

Tuesday 21st Wednesday 22nd Thursday 23rd

 

09:00 – 12:00 A brief discussions and work in creative process.

12:00 – 13:00 A break.

13:00 – 17:00 Students are working

 

Friday 24th

09:00 – 12:00 Workshop continues

12:00 – 13:00 A break

13:00 – 17:00 The continuation of the work; final talk and presentation on the final works. Closing of the workshop.

 

Visual Narrative: 20-24.11.2017, Vilnius Academy fo Arts

Practical Theory Workshop “Visual Narrative” with visual artist, graphic designer Gediminas Šiaulys (Vilnius, Lithuania)

2017 November 20 – 24th (arrival on 19th of November and departure on 25th of November)

CIRRUS seats: 3
VAA Vilnius faculty, Graphic design department, Maironio str. 3, Vilnius, Lithuania
Level: BA students
CIRRUS grant: 330 EUR travel (Iceland 660) + 70 weekly allowance
2 ECTS

Please send a motivation letter to Asta Jackute by e-mail:  asta.jackute@vda.lt

Application deadline: 9th of November, 2017.
Decisions on selection are announced by November 10th, 2017.

 

Graphic Design department of Vilnius Academy of Arts is hosting Cirrus express course/workshop on Practical theory workshop. Students will create visual scenarios and stories using different innovative visual methods.

3 students will be selected from Cirrus network partner schools.

 

About lecturer

Gediminas Šiaulys (www.gedsia.com ; behance.net/gedsia) is an animation director, visual artist and a co-founder of a studio PetPunk (Vilnius, Lithuania). The artist’s primary areas of interest lie in animation, tactile crafts and various experiments within these fields. This leads to authentic work that is visually and aesthetically challenging, yet peculiarly subtle. Gediminas’ works gained recognition by world’s leading art & design magazines and became “New Eastern European Design” synonym. In 2009 Canadian Boards magazine included PetPunk in top 6 of “New Wave of Designers”, while in 2010 UK’s leading design magazine Computer Arts featured PetPunk as “The New Wave of Animation”.
Gediminas Šiaulys together with Petpunk are the first Lithuanians to win the “Young Guns” prize by the Art Directors Club in New York and have been invited to numerous international festivals such as the European Design Conference (Stockholm), Visuelt (Oslo), PICTOPLASMA (Berlin), Onedotzero (London), Anima (Brussels), Arsenale (Florence), Holland Animation Film Festival (Utrecht), 5th Istanbul Animation Festival (Istanbul), Huesca Film Festival (Huesca), Off Motion Festival (Krakow), DesignFLUX 2007 (Paris).

 

Timetable

 

Monday 20th

09:00 – 12:00 Presentation lecture of the workshop.

12:00 – 13:00 A break.

13:00 – 17:00 Students are working

 

Tuesday 21st Wednesday 22nd Thursday 23rd

 

09:00 – 12:00 A brief discussions and work in creative process.

12:00 – 13:00 A break.

13:00 – 17:00 Students are working

 

Friday 24th

09:00 – 12:00 Workshop continues

12:00 – 13:00 A break

13:00 – 17:00 The continuation of the work; final talk and presentation on the final works. Closing of the workshop.

“Extended drawing” express course by Vilnius Academy of Arts

The Faculty of Klaipeda (Vilnius Academy of Arts) are  hosting joint Cirrus workshop “Extended drawing” in-between architecture/printmaking/research in Klaipeda.

 

1,5 ECTS
CIRRUS seats: 6
CIRRUS/Nordplus grant available: 330 EUR travel (Iceland 660 EUR) + 70 EUR weekly allowance

Klaipeda, Lithuania
November 27th – December 1st, 2017 (arrival 26th, departure 2nd)

 

The workshop aims to reveal possibilities and potentialities in between architectural research and graphical research from a craftman’s point of view – through drawing and making that is. By combing architectural design thinking, drawing and graphical reproduction we will look for a new kind – extended – craft or practice. The experiments which will lead to this result will reveal possibilities of “extending” as a valid way to find new ideas, techniques and practices.

During this workshop we will make and explore a basic spatial structure, look for ways of communicating its qualities and inquire possible ways of imagining those qualities on a two dimsnional carrier. By combining drawing and reproduction we will reinterpret the final outlook of the structure. The workshop involves collaborative reasoning, making, drawing and printing. The final product of the workshop will evolve during the sessions by collaboratively negotiating the final outlook of the presentation/exhibition.

 

The workshop, combines reflection (research) – practice and production and will be divided into the three parts:

part 1 (wrong) perspective(s);

part 2 graphical techniques and reproduction ;

part 3 (re)presentatiion concluded with a critical/reflective open exhibition.

 

6 students will be selected from Cirrus network partner schools.

The workshop are open to students from disciplines: Interior design, Graphic design, Architecture and sculpture/ 3D design.

 

Level: BA students
The teacher of the workshop is dr. arch. Robin Schaeverbeke, lecturer Mixed Media KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture.

Application process:  fill application due October 23rd, 2017
Decisions on selection will be announced by November 6th, 2017

Apply with a short motivational letter and a link to your portoflio to the lecturer Vaidotas Dapkevicius vaidotas.dapkevicius@vda.lt

 

About lecturer

Robin Schaeverbeke (Bruges, januari 1974) got fascinated by architecture through a training as a

draughtsman within Beaux-Arts methods of (architectural) drawing at the Academy Of Fine Arts, Bruges.

From there on he moved to Ghent and Brussels to take on the study of Master within Architecture graduating in 1998 at the Sint-Lucas School of Architecture. Left Belgium for Rotterdam in 1999 to

develop designing and graphical skills within several Dutch offices. From 2004 onwards he took the

opportunity to teach, redevelop and research directions for drawing courses at the Sint-Lucas School of

Architecture, Brussels, Belgium. In August 2016 Robin successfully defended his PhD dissertation

“Extended Drawing” wherein he explores the concept of extension as valuable way to progress in

transformative fields of practice.

His active and passive interest in musical improvisation led to a thesis which explores the concept of improvisation in design and drawing processes.

 

You can find additional information about lecturer here: www.mmblog.be

 

 

Timetable

 

Monday 27 th

10.00 – 10.30 Presentation of the workshops

10.30 -12.00 Collective building of first structure

12.00- 13.00 Lunch break

13.00 –15.00 Plotting a first plan

15.00 –15.30 Break

15.30 -17.00 Photographic analysis of the structure + exploring possible perspectives

17.00 –17.30 Roundup day 1

 

Tuesday 28th

10.00 -10.30 Presentation (wrong perspectives)

10.30 -12.00 Drawing and exploring wrong perspectives

12.00 -13.00 Lunch break

13.00 -15.00 Tracing shadows and lines (01)

15.00 – 15.30 Break

15.30 -17.00 Refining the drawings (02)

17.00 -17.30 Roundup day 2

 

Wednesday 29 th

10.00 -10.30 Presentation of printing techniques

10.30 -12.30 Preparation of the files and plates

12.00 -13.00 Lunch break

13.00 -17.00 Open printing sessions

17.00 -17.30 Roundup day 3

 

Thursday 30 th

10.00 -12.00 Open drawing/printing sessions (planning the exhibition)

12.00 -13.00 Lunch break

13.00- 17.00 Finalisation drawings and prints

17.00 -17.30 Roundup day 4

 

Friday 01st

10.00- 12.30 Final presentations/exhibition open review

12.00-13.00 Lunch break and roundup workshop