Remote Employment (online)

Estimated Project Kick-Off: March 2024

Project goals:

• Development of a Vocational Program: in the field of Pottery & Ceramics Crafts.
• High quality Educational Content Building

Duration of the vocational program: 6-9 months.

Estimate launch date of the vocational program: November 2024

Roles & responsibilities of the Curriculum Design Expert :

• Creating a general plan that includes formulating clear and measurable objectives for the program.
• Developing program evaluation standards and learning outcomes.
• Writing and developing educational materials that support the educational objectives, including identifying learning sources, electronic resources, and others.
• Consulting with program design committee members, experts, and practitioners to integrate their views into the design.
• Aligning educational content with job market requirements and needs.
• Updating and modifying content based on feedback and new developments.
• Providing training and professional support to faculty and trainers on using new curricula

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The PhD Network Track does not have a specific topic and is not linked to one of the conference themes. It is intended for PhD students who want to present their research and get general feedback.

Authors (PhD students) should submit an abstract (max. 500 words) and a short paper (max. 2000 words) that describes their research via the submission system. Formatting and submission requirements are described on the Formats page.

The selected papers will be presented in one or more special sessions during the conference and published in the conference proceedings.

Cumulus PhD Network extended submission deadline: 15 February 2024.

Follow the newest information at the conference website.

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The call is looking for projects in various formats that take and present a snapshot of the current state of the art in creation and practice-research, driven by a plurality of scopes, as diverse and complex as design and architecture are, and the world they design for. Reception of projects is open until May 19th 2023 within the following categories: Transmedia, Perform, Exhibit or Present and receive academic feedback.

Call information here.

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In this workshop, we will first give you a sneak preview of the brand-new Cumulus Design Competency Resource* which aims to become a global platform for design teachers to share their best student ‘Learning Experiences’.

Then we invite you to share your stories about the Learning Experiences you conceived for your design class or studio and how they inspired and enabled students to grow their competencies in design.

Working in small groups, we’ll then tag your stories using the Design Competency Resource, to make your unique learning experiences accessible, shareable and findable for the global Cumulus Community of design educators.

*AADTE, Cumulus and DCF have been working on the creation of the Design Competency Resource over the past three years, funded by a Cumulus grant.

Workshop Description

The AADTE Working group is about to launch a website highlighting the competencies that makes being a designer so special as a shared resource for design teachers around the world. Before its official launch during Cumulus Antwerp in 2023 we need you to read this and join us in Detroit.

Before you take off….
While you are getting packed your suitcases to get to the Cumulus conference in Detroit, you’ll be mentally preparing for deep, inspiring and mind-bending paper presentations and discussions.

For a week, you won’t be teaching students or managing your departments. The everyday interactions with design students in the classroom or design studio are getting more distant on your back mirror.

While the view forward at the broad, deep and far-reaching landscape of research is inspiring, we feel that taking a better look at the everyday of teaching provides a similar wealth of insight, if we take the effort. To quote Goethe, ‘The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes’.

This AADTE working group session will aim the lens of inquiry at what is usually right in front of your eyes in the classroom, and in the design studio. What’s so special about teaching design? What kinds of learning experiences are involved? Can you identify the unique design competencies that are being taught?

For example
We feel that the most important and strategic things in design that are so valuable in today’s discourses about design thinking are situated and acquired in learning experiences of students in the context of everyday teaching. For example, in model / figure drawing, not only do we acquire skills like observation, drawing and composition but also learn to ‘think spatially’, to ‘see relationships’ or even learn to empathize. In another example, by asking students to work in small groups, with one of the students managing the process, all students learn about collaboration, and some learn about managing a project.

What we are looking for
What are your best stories about creating learning experiences in design? What are the most valuable learning experiences you can share beyond the walls of your own classroom or studio? How do these experiences help students to grow? What are some of the higher-level design competencies that are situated and acquired? Could you inspire colleague teachers around the world? We would love to capture some of this knowledge and experience.

We’re not looking for theories on how design thinking gets developed, but looking for the everyday moments in the classroom, where students are working on project work, either alone, in groups, in the class, in a lab or in a studio…

The workshop
In the workshop we’ll invite you first to describe a learning experience you set up for students. You could present in a hands-on way how you prepare it, how the learning experience plays out, the activities the students engage in (both in the studio and in their own time) and how discussion, sharing, and feedback occur. And anything else you feel is important.

We have prepared a list of possible learnings (design competencies) with their definitions. These competencies will be used as tags so other teachers can find the learning experiences; they’re interested in on the website/shared resource we’re creating.

Post workshop
We’d like to publish the learning experiences you presented in this workshop (with your credentials off course) on the website/resource we’re creating, so that at Cumulus Antwerp we can celebrate the rich diversity, depth and value of everyday teaching.

How we got to here…
At Cumulus Hong Kong (2016), Pr. Job Rutgers from OCADU in Toronto began a partnership with Dr. John Fass and Mo Ling Chui from UAL’s London College of Communication (LCC). This partnership applies design thinking to the creation of design pedagogy and design curriculum. Since then, the group presented workshops and papers on Design + Art Competencies at Cumulus conferences in Kolding and in Paris. In 2018 it organized a large workshop at AIGA in Minneapolis and presented a paper for the Design Research Society Conference in Limerick, Ireland.

At Cumulus Paris we agreed with Cumulus conference organizers (Luisa Collina and Martti Raevaara) to integrate the format of the competency workshop to date into the pedagogy working group, to create an annual platform to summarize and synthesize findings on art + design competencies. Prior to COVID, during Cumulus Rovaniemi, we created a team of ‘rapporteurs’ to create an overview of the competencies being implied within the broad array of presentations and papers. Now at Cumulus Detroit, we again pick up the collaborative conversation, and would love to see you there!

We are: Design Competency Futures
The facilitators of this workshop (Rutgers, Fass) are founders of the Design Competency Futures initiative. As design educators and researchers, we have seen how the discourse on design thinking has popularized design far beyond the profession of design.

But how do design students acquire their valuable competencies? To find out, at conferences around the world we facilitate workshops with leading designers, design educators and design administrators and co-investigate, co-create future proof design competencies. For more information on our process please refer to https://dcf-lab.com

Time: Wednesday 2 November 2022, 13:30-15.00 EST (Detroit time)/ 17.30-19.00 UTC
Onsite: Room 1141, the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education. Address: 460 W Baltimore Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
Online: Zoom link, Meeting ID:830 6100 2341, Code:146600. Free access to Cumulus members.

Pr. Job Rutgers
OCAD University Toronto, Canada
jrutgers@faculty.ocadu.ca
www.ocadu.ca

Dr. John Fass
LCC London, UK
j.fass@arts.ac.uk
www.arts.ac.uk

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Society is being constantly challenged by conflict (global/local), contradiction and an ever changing perspective by non-neutral roles of technology and organisations. We invite the Cumulus community, designers, artists, and educators to investigate how culture and creative industry can offer resilience, consolation, and innovation models on human scale.

With a legacy of conflict, the city of Antwerp represents an economic and cultural hive of activity. Concepts from avant-garde to conformism fashion, product design and new media have flourished in Antwerp.

Aligned with the vision of Cumulus Association, and revigorated with the notion that new movements can be shaped in grassroots settings, the aim of the Conference is to map principles research and education in design and highlight novel directions.

The conference is actively looking for new insights and critical reflections on the value of Connectivity and Creativity in times of Conflict, reflected in these conference tracks:

Nature positive/Design for Transformation
• Systemic & strategic problem solving 
• The concept of abundance
• Decoupling innovation from the notion of “new”
• Biophilic design 
• Resilience in fashion and interior design 

Digital futures/Hybrid reality
• Metaverse / VR & AI
• Digital fabrication
• Craftmanship
• Smart cities
• Digital arts
• Cyber- and posthumanism

Handle with care/Inclusivity
• Inclusive Design
• Super-diversity
• Social Spaces
• Critical heritage, conservation and restoration

METHOD/ART
• Uncertainty in method and practice
• Ecological strategies
• Cultural activism 
• Participatory practices
• Pedagogical projects

This call is for anyone wishing to test an idea or to get early feedback on a proposal. Contribute your paper, visual paper, poster, workshop, lecture/performance or poster/installation.

The conference will be held in Antwerp between 12-15 April 2023.
Hosted by the Faculty of Design Sciences of the University of Antwerp in close collaboration with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. Located in the medieval city centre, there will be plenty of opportunity to connect and create.

Submit your contribution – deadline 11 November 2022

Read the whole text of the call here.
Learn more about the conference.

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