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Open seats available at EAA’s summer school, deadline May 26, 2019
EKA SUMMER ACADEMY

CIRRUS students are welcome to apply to four EKA Summer Academy 2019 courses: 

Clay 3D Printing
Wood and Design
Sculptural Headwear – Couture Millinery
Speculative and Critical Design – Special Programs Think Tank

Deadline: May 26, 2019

Information about application requirements, dates and ECTS can be found at https://eka-summer-academy.dreamapply.com/Please mark Cirrus as your scholarship option when applying to the course. Scholarship option is located under the other category in the application form.

3 CIRRUS seats per course are granted (Nordplus scholarship amount is EUR 330 / EUR 660 Iceland travel + 70 EUR weekly allowance). However, if there are living costs or a course fee announced, then these apply to CIRRUS students as well.

Course title: Together (porcelain painting workshop)

Teaching period: 06.06. – 13.06.2019  (5^thJune – arrival, 14^thJune – departure)
Teacher(s): prof. Dainis Lesins, asoc.prof. Liga Skarina, asoc.prof. Eugenia Loginova.
Guest lecturer prof. Sergey Rusakov  fromThe Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design

ECTS:  1.5
Level: BA / MA
Available places for CIRRUS students: 2
CIRRUS grant: 70 EUR weekly + travel grant 330 EUR (Iceland 660 EUR)

Requirements: to prepare some sketches of your design for painting on 2 porcelain plates (25cm) and 2 cups. Working tools (various brushes, palette scraper, pen with a nib and etc.) shall be taken along with you. Accommodation & working material cost for all participants – local & international: 180 EUR (see details below).

Application deadline: 01.05.2019. (results will be announced on 03.05.2019.)

How to apply:
Please send a short motivation letter (mention also your home university, study level, contacts) and some photos of your art works (could be portfolio, electronic version or web link) to the e-mail address: sympo.lv@gmail.com.

Course description:

Students’ porcelain painting praxis will take place within the framework of the International Porcelain painting symposium ‘Together’. The students will be given a unique possibility to be introduced to professional artists, their oeuvre.  Symposium participants come from different countries – Lithuania, Germany, USA, Poland, Spain, South Korea, Turkey, Russia and Latvia.

During the course the classical overglaze painting technique will be taught to the students.

It is envisaged to provide an intensive study course – lectures, workshops, professional practice and evening seminars by demonstration of individual presentations of participants.

Assignment:  The course is focused on overglaze painting. A simple shaped porcelain ware will be given and used.

Envisaged results:  Students are taught and are acquainted with the work process of overglaze porcelain painting technique.

IMPORTANT!

Additional information:

Venues of the symposium – a splendid and picturesque resort by the seaside in Jurmala.

Participation fee is compulsory for all the participants, for students (with discount): 180 EUR. It covers costs of accommodation in double room, working materials and firing. Catering is not provided, but each room is equipped with fridge, teapot, microwave.

CIRRUS EXPRESS COURSE

Title of course: Design Jam
Teaching period: 4-14 June, 2019
Teacher: Martin Foessleitner
ECTS: 3

Number of available place for CIRRUS students:  2

Level: BA / MA
Venue: Art Academy of Latvia / Kalpaka bulvaris 13, Riga, LV-1050, Latvia

Language: English
Application deadline:  April 30, 2019
How to apply: Send ashort motivation and CVto inta.rubule@lma.lv
with subject title: Cirrus Design Jam
Decisions: announced by May 3, 2019
Grant available per student: 330Eur travel (Iceland 660Eur) + 70Eur weekly

Course description:

Imagine a jam session in music. You come together bringing your instruments, your skills, open mind. Someone sets up a theme, and you start to jam around it; you don’t over-analyse it, you don’t discuss it to the death, you jam. You bounce your ideas off other people and play around with what comes back. Together you build something which none of you could have built alone. And at the same time you are learning new ideas, discovering more about how you work and whom you best work with, sharpening your skills and having a great time. And who knows, maybe there are one or two ideas there which might make it to the next album.

Design Jam works just in the same way. But it’s not music you are jamming – it’s design. And it’s not just talking – you are here to turn your ideas into a concrete design, prototype and plan of action which you might want to make real. To prototype and plan it in a way that someone could go out and make it real, „creating platforms of social interactions“ knowing what resources they would need, what they should do, and who they should talk to? That’s the challenge of the jam. And finally re-checking and testing in real life.

Additional information:Teacher Martin Foessleitner (MBA Vienna University of Economics and Business) – founder and managing director of High-Performance Vienna GmBH (www.hi-pe.at); board member of International Institute for Information Design; board member of designaustria; jurymember of the European Design Award. Experience sharing and teaching at Sigmund Freud University Vienna, Danube University Krems and University of Applied Sciences St.Pölten in Austria.

The workshop which is intended to commemorate Centenary of the BAUHAUS!

CIRRUS intensive workshop Information Space VRat the Faculty of Klaipėda, Vilnius Academy of Arts

The Faculty of Klaipeda (Vilnius Academy of Arts)are hosting joint Cirrus workshop Information Space VR

1,5  ECTS
CIRRUS seats: 6
Grant: 330 EUR travel/Iceland 660 EUR + 70 EUR weekly grant.

Level: BA, MA studentsdifferent specialties of design.
Klaipeda, Lithuania
April 23^rd– 26^th, 2019 (arrival April 22^nd, departure April 27^th)

Language English

Workshop concept

“Information Space VR” will experiment with representaion of Data in Space.

The workshop will think and develop spatial options to create an information space with all the data collected in virutal reality (VR). Main focus will be on the aesthetical change of the collected data when everything is presented within a virtual environment (VE). The topic of remediation¹ is a key element when thinking about VE’s because we always bring other media to present in VR. Also the topic of responiveness² has a big impact while designing for VE’s because of ist interactive nature. At the time we enter the virtual world we have already a interactive sensation through the headtracking.

The Information Space created should tribute the 100th aniversary of Bauhaus architecture and reflect is modern and avantgarde origin.

Equipment:

Technically we will be use the gaming software Unity 3d to prototype our concepts and the HTC Vive head mounted display (HMD) for the full VR experience.

At the workspace we needVive ready Windows  PC  (https://www.vive.com/de/ready/) with

Steam  and  Steam  VR  installed  (https://store.steampowered.com/about/ for  the  use  of  HTC  Vive) , Unit 2018.3.6  installed (https://unity3d.com/de/get-unity/download/archive) and Visualstudio Community Edition (normally comes with Unity3d installation depending on how u install it https://unity3d.com/de/learn/tutorials/topics/scripting/installation-and-setup-visual-studio).

Every  student PC (Windows  or Mac) should  have  the same Unity version and a texteditor (Visualstudio or Monodevelop) installed as  well  as  some  basic photo editing software and depending on their research material 3d modeling or sound software.

Make  sure  that  Unity  is  signed  in  with  your  own aaccount  if  you  have  none  just  make  one.

Timetable

Tuesday  23^th

10 – 11 Presentation  of the workshop
11 – 12 Introduction into Unity 3d
12 – 13 Lunch break
13 – 16 Development of virtual representation concepts
16 – 17 Discussion of the concepts

Wednesday 24 ^th

10 – 12 Decision on project(s) that get realized
12 – 13 Lunch break
13 – 14 Introduction on representation methods and narration in space
14 – 17 Supervised working on static scene

Thursday 25 ^th

10 – 12 Supervised working on static scene
12 – 13 Lunch break
13 – 14 Short internal presentation of what has been done and what comes next
14 – 17 Supervised working on narration and interaction inside static scene

Friday 26 ^th

10 – 12 Supervised working on narration and interaction inside static scene
12 – 13 Lunch break
13 – 15 Finish of the project and transfer to the Vive PC
15 – 16 Preparation of a short presentation
16 – 17 Short internal presentation

ATTENTION!

All participants should be familiar with the Bauhaus movement basics.

Registered participants will receive a very short text and iliustrations about the Bauhaus architecture of Klaipėda.

Applications should include your name, surname, home school, study year and level, a Motivation statement (max 200 words), a link to your portfolio and CV.
All applications should be sent to ruta.jakstoniene@vda.lt

Deadline to apply: the 10^thof April, 2019 
Decisions on selection are announced by 12^thof April, 2019

 
The lecturer of the workshop Jörg Frohnmayer  is  a  teacher, researcher  and  experimentalist  in  the  field  of  virtual  reality.

J.Frohnmayer works at the Merz Akademie which is a non-profit, nationally accredited University of Art, Design, and Media in Stuttgart, Germany.

More about lecturer: http://www.spatial-interface.de/

More about Merz Akademie: https://www.merz-akademie.de/en/

HDK – Academy of Crafts and Design offer a summer course open for students from the Cirrus network, two study-places are available for Cirrus students.
If you are accepted, you will receive Nordplus-grants from Cirrus.

CIRRUS grant available: 2 X 330 EUR travel (Iceland 660 EUR) +70 EUR weekly 

Wood firing 7, 5 ECTS
basic level is a 11-week summer course from:
June 17 – 26 August
Most of the time you will be working in your own studio
Seats open for CIRRUS: 2

Description

The course is addressed to students with experience of working with ceramics who wants to try new expressions through wood firing. We start with an introduction to the wood firing field and Anagamafiring where we explain how you can work both practically and artistically with wood firing.
The introduction will take place on June 17^that HDK. (It is desirable but not mandatory to be in Gothenburg for the introduction on June 17th. If you cannot make it, we will arrange a Skype meeting).

After that, you have a period of own work where you deepen in an individual project. Your own artistic approach/artistic expressionwill be the starting point, let the theoretical information from the first meeting be help in the work. The project has to be done in your own studio as there isn´t any possibility to work at HDK. You will then bring your project to Nääs, the place where the woodfiring will take place. We recommend you to work in a suitable size for transportation.

The common Anagamafiring will take place between the 17^thand 26^thof August at Nääs, the place where HDK has its wood firing “open air laboratory” on the ground of the castle of Nääs about 30 km from Gothenburg.

Here you will have teacher led instructions and briefings, where theory around the different wood firing techniques are followed by practical work.

During this week, you will also present your artistic practice and how you have chosen to work with your own project. You will tell about your choices, your working process and which expectations you have about this firing and working method. The oral presentation should be as a PowerPoint and it has also to be handled in as a text with pictures at latest the 16^thof August to renata.francescon@hdk.gu.se

At the end of the week, we will evaluate and analyse the outcomes from the wood firing with your text as the starting point and see how your expectations correspond to the results and if you see this kind of firing and process as part of a possible development of your artistic practice.

The workload during this last week will be very intense. You will be divided into groups and work with different tasks in on-going work shifts. You will stay at Nääs hostel and we will cook together.The expenses for food and accommodation are upon you.

Qualification and registration

Entrance qualifications: Pre-knowledge in Ceramic, at least 60 ECTS.

Selection: the selection will be made upon work samples and motivation

Apply to the course

Send a complete application assembledin one pdf document (max 15 MB)
to  Cecilia Eriksen Wijk cecilia.eriksen.wijk@hdk.gu.se at the latest April 18.
Mark your email: Cirrus summer course.

The application should include:

1. Cover page: state your name, email, current studies, name of your home school and a short resume/CV of your previous studies in ceramics

2. Certificate showing your pre-knowledge in Ceramics
3. Motivation letter (max 2000 signs) motivate why you want to attend this course
4. Portfolio: 5-7 pictures showing examples of former works

If you have any questions feel free to contact Cecilia Eriksen Wijk, International Coordinator at HDK
cecilia.eriksen.wijk@hdk.gu.se

The workshop which is intended to commemorate Centenary of the BAUHAUS!

CIRRUS intensive workshop (Bauhaus—包豪斯—バウハウス—Πивна́я)+Font

An international type experiment at the Faculty of Klaipėda, Vilnius Academy of Arts

The Faculty of Klaipeda (Vilnius Academy of Arts) are hosting joint Cirrus workshop 

(Bauhaus—包豪斯—バウハウス—Πивна́я)+Font. 

1,5  ECTS
CIRRUS seats: 4

Level: BA students
Klaipeda, Lithuania
April 15^th – 17^th, 2019 (arrival April 14^th, departure April 18^th)

Workshop with presentations, practice and discussions

Language: English, with hands, feet, whatever it takes

Starting point

One hundred years of Bauhaus means one hundred years of a transregional, transcultural and transnational approach on design. In the 1920 and early 30s, the Bauhaus idea found its way to Shanghai, China’s world metropolis at the time, via Japan. Few people in the West are aware of the fact that in Asia, modern design methodology was synced to a process of re-thinking traditional values in visual culture in the quest for a contemporary cultural identity.

Workshop concept

Theory: Let us look at how the Bauhaus idea impacted on Japan, China, India, the Arab world… and how it helped resonate local visual tradition.

Practice: Let us create—with minimal means—an experimental multilingual typeface from the building blocks of Bauhaus. It can comprise both of letterforms or pictoral elements.

Timeframe

Monday 15^th, 10am

1. Brief introduction of myself with some works (presentation, 30 minutes)

2. Introduction (presentation part 1): Bauhaus. An international phenomenon. The West. Migration of people and ideas, media revolution and the new interconnectedness (60 minutes).

3. Practice: Live experiment on paper and paper-cut: Roman and Cyrillic letters (shared tutorial, 30 minutes)

4. Practice and sharing of first individual results (end of day 1)

Tuesday 16^th, 10am

1. Introduction (presentation part 2): Bauhaus. An international phenomenon. Asia (60 minutes).

2. Practice (end of day 2)

Wednesday 17^th, 10am

1. Finishing of results, final presentation preparation

2. Final shared presentation and discussion of outcome, comparison of the spontaneous day 1 experiment with the final designs, summary (end of workshop)

ATTENTION! 

Those who are interested could stay one day longer (leave on 19th of April), and  could use the day building fonts and immerse a little into this field on a casual eye-to-eye basis.

Applications should include your name, surname, home school, study year and level, a Motivation statement (max 250 words), a link to your portfolio and CV.
All applications should be sent to ruta.jakstoniene@vda.lt

Deadline to apply: the 1^st of April, 2019
Decisions on selection are announced by 3^rd of April, 2019
The teacher of the workshop – Roman Wilhelm (*1976) is a substitute professor of typography at the Braunschweig University of the Arts, Germany. 

He studied under Prof. Fred Smeijers for a typeface design master’s degree at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts. His multilingual typefaces are distributed by Arphic (Taiwan) and on Fontspring. 

He lives and works in Berlin.

More about lecturer: http://www.roman946.de

10 seats free of charge open to CIRRUS students
3 CIRRUS teachers welcome as well
Grant option for students: 330 EUR travel / 660 EUR Iceland + 70 EUR weekly for students
CIRRUS grant option for teachers: 330 EUR travel / 660 EUR Iceland + 70 EUR daily/350 weekly
Please mention in your application that you are CIRRUS student. 

LAMK Summer School 

EKSIG 2019: KNOWING TOGETHER – EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND COLLABORATION

International Conference of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge at Estonian Academy of Arts, 2019

EKSIG 2019 will address the theme of “Knowing Together – experiential knowledge and collaboration”.

Date: Monday and Tuesday, 23 – 24 September 2019

Venue: Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia

http://www.eksig2019.com

We are pleased to announce our first keynote speaker, Prof. Ron Wakkary, Everyday Design Studio, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

With the theme ‘Knowing Together – experiential knowledge and collaboration’ the conference aims to provide a forum for debate about knowledge generation in collaboration by professionals and academic researchers in the creative disciplines and beyond.

Creative practice has transformed from one based on the production of material artefacts to one that engages expertise and knowledge from multiple disciplines. Recent research in the creative disciplines has revolved around the changing territorial context of ‘making’ and has increasingly involved professionals and academic researchers working collaboratively to explore an interdisciplinary inquiry. Collaboration in such research has therefore become vital. A research team may comprise different disciplinary experts, such as scientists, technologists, artists, designers, architects, psychologists, business strategists and policy makers, working across academic, commercial and public sectors. They may work with materials and/or non-materials. Examples include research the fields of New Materials, Smart Textiles, Virtual Materiality, Material Innovation, Embodied Ideation, and Participatory Practices in Business in which various partners are in dialogue with one another, developing, consolidating and enhancing knowledge while generating new opportunities for interdisciplinary knowledge exchange.

EKSIG 2019 aims to examine collaboration within research and commercial teams that comprise creative professionals/researchers (such as designers, artists, architects, etc.) and members with other diverse disciplinary expertise. This is to understand how individual experiential knowledge, or knowledge gained by practice, is shared, how collective experiential knowledge is accumulated and communicated in and through collaboration, and how it is embodied in the outputs and may be traced back to the origin of the practice. The conference also aims to illuminate ‘making’ as the action of change in which matter and materials are transformed through collaboration, interaction or negotiation between the collaborative team and their material and non-material environments.

This conference welcomes contributions exploring and discussing experiential knowledge generated when researchers and practitioners collaborate with experts in other fields. We interpret collaboration here in the widest possible sense to include any kind of working together. We are interested in building a rich collection of case studies that illuminate the relationships built within the collaboration, the approaches used and the new knowledge gained and transferred within the team. This is expected to contribute to a more systematic approach for studying and integrating experiential knowledge into collaborative practice and research.

Questions of interest are for example:

• What are the current understandings of collaboration and interdisciplinary research?
• How can collaboration be utilised within the framework of research?
• How can a researcher’s disciplinary expertise benefit collaborative research and practice?
• How can we articulate material (and immaterial) knowledge which are tacit and embodied within the process of research?
• How can skills and embodied knowledge in different professional disciplines be shared and/or applicable to one another in a collaborative practice?
• How can we gain and communicate individual and collective experiential knowledge in and through collaboration, and how is it embodied in the outputs and may be traced back to the origin of the practice?
• What means and methods can be utilised to transfer and replicate tacit knowledge accumulated in collaborative practice?

We wish to bring together engaged professionals and scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds, fields of knowledge production and methodological approaches to explore these issues. We invite contributions from creative subjects and other disciplines, e.g. design, architecture, engineering, craft, media, HCI, performance, music, fine art, curation, museology, archaeology, philosophy, knowledge management, education, health, cognitive science, gastronomy, oenology, sensory studies, etc., that are concerned with collaboration in research and in creative and professional practice.

For EKSIG 2019, we invite submission of full papers (4000-5000 words) which offer new or challenging views on the subject. Papers will be selected subject to a double-blind peer-review process by an international review team.

Please submit your full papers via EasyChair – https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eksig2019.

Author’s Guide for the EKSIG2019 can be found on the conference website http://www.eksig2019.com/calls/

KEY DATES

First call for papers – 19 December 2018
Second call for papers – 29 January 2019
Third call for papers – 4 March 2019
Submission of full papers – 5 April 2019
Notification of acceptance of papers – 10 June 2019
Submission of final revised papers – 19 July 2019
Conference – 23–24 September 2019

CONFERENCE ORGANISERS

Kristi Kuusk, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia
Nithikul Nimkulrat, OCAD University, Canada
Julia Valle Noronha, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia / Aalto University, Finland
Camilla Groth, University of Southeast Norway / Aalto University, Finland
Oscar Tomico, ELISAVA | Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, Spain
Kristina Niedderer, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK 

ABOUT EKSIG

EKSIG is part of a programme of Special Interest Groups set up by the Design Research Society (DRS) in 2007 to facilitate international exchange and advance in relevant areas of design. EKSIG is concerned with the understanding and management of experiential knowledge in research and professional practice in design in order to clarify fundamental principles and practices, with regard to both research degree regulations/requirements and research methodology. Please see http://experientialknowledge.org.uk for more information about the Special Interest Group and previous conferences.

EKSIG 2019 will be convened as part of a regular programme of EKSIG conferences which serve to address specific themes by bringing together researchers and practitioners from various disciplinary backgrounds, fields of knowledge production and methodological approaches to engender challenging multi vocal debates around these themes and to facilitate exchange and cross fertilisation between the creative disciplines and other practice-led disciplines. We invite contributions from design, architecture, engineering, craft, media,

performance, music, fine art, curation, museology, archaeology, philosophy, knowledge management, education, health, cognitive science, gastronomy, oenology and others that are concerned with expertise and connoisseurship of creative and professional practice and research. Papers selected for presentation at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings: an abstract booklet with an online publication of the full papers, the preferred format of the DRS. As in past years, the organisers will collaborate with an appropriate journal to publish selected papers from the conference as a special issue.

INDICATIVE REFERENCES

Frickel, S., Albert, M. & Prainsack, B. (eds.) (2016). Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Theory and Practice across Disciplines. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Ingold, T. (2013). Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture. London, UK: Routledge.

Plattner, H., Meinel, C. & Leifer, L. (eds.) (2018). Design Thinking Research: Making Distinctions: Collaboration versus Cooperation. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Sennett, R. (2008). The Craftsman. New Haven, London: Yale University Press.

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Kristi Kuusk
teadur | designer-researcher in Design Department
dotsent | Associate Professor in Textile Futures

Tekstiilidisaini osakond | Department of Textile Design
Eesti Kunstiakadeemia | Estonian Academy of Arts

Põhja pst 7, Tallinn 10412, Estonia
+372 626 7316

www.artun.ee

Critical Image Workshop
Host: Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Design
Number of available places for CIRRUS students: 5
ECTS: 5
Level: BA
Requirements: Open for all CIRRUS institution students in the fields of communication, design and fine arts who are interested in gender and equality issues.
Application deadline: 15.3.2019
Grant available per student: 330 EUR travel (Iceland 660) + 70 weekly allowance
How to apply: Please send a short motivation letter titled “Critical Image Application”
(max 350 words) describing why you are interested in taking part in this workshop to pauliina.pasanen@lamk.fi

Teachers:
Utu-Tuuli Jussila and Pauliina Vuorinen
Timetable:
6.–7.4.2019 + critique day 4.5 (on skype)

Workshop description
In this workshop we look at images from a feminist perspective. We think about how gender, race, class, age, sexuality and ability are being represented in the media and the visual arts. In other words, we practice an intersectional gaze. Through case examples and assignments we learn how to identify and dismantle normative representation of gender for example. Images maintain norms but they can also decode them. Images are never mere representations but they also produce reality. The images we make and choose have real effects in the society and that is something one should be aware of. In this course, we consider what is the author’s responsibility. Are there influencing possibilities. We also discuss who ultimately benefits from the norms. In addition to portraits and images of people, we also discuss how, for example, typography or other design choices can get gendered meanings.

The workshop will take place as a weekend course with a focus on discussions. Before the workshop, the participants read a few articles to familiarize them on the topic. On the basis of the workshop, the students will complete a final assignment that will be shown at the Henkilökuva aikakausmediassa Seminar in May.

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On the basis of the workshop, the students will complete a final assignment that will be shown at the Henkilökuva aikakausmediassa Seminar in May. Participation in the seminar is voluntary. Students get 5 ects from participating in the workshop weekend and critique day plus completing the assignments on schedule.

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