Today’s session employs peer-to-peer formative feedback to draw together a large pool of responses to each other’s Project Proposals; celebrating exciting areas of development whilst identifying unconsidered gaps.
Before beginning the exchange, we will discuss the role of a ‘Critical Friend’ and setting terms for how our feedback session will be conducted. This will be recorded [here]. And outline a set of core questions or values we might want to examine the projects in relationship to.
To assist one another, we will record reflections in a shared document [here] and rotate who assumes the note taking role. This ensures that the person receiving feedback does not need to simultaneously listen, write and respond.
Unit 6 Weekly Plan: Positionality Portraits Project
Week 55 (w/c 22nd January): Proposal Finalization and Feedback
Refine project proposal and integrate feedback.
Week 56 (w/c 29th January): Prepare Documentation and Outreach
Create consent forms, test setup, and plan locations.
Week 57 (w/c 5th February): Start Public Engagement
Conduct initial drawing sessions and post content online.
Week 58 (w/c 12th February): Expand Engagement and Reflect
Explore new locations and refine based on feedback.
Week 59 (w/c 19th February): Receive and Apply Feedback
the artistic or cultural value of your intended project
the community who will be engaged and how (in-person and/or online)
and possible opportunities to reflectively conduct a self-assessment.
It should be no more than three pages, and contain a maximum of 500 words, plus images/figures and a bibliography.
If you are having any issue with this submission, please contact Elliott Burns via email (e.burns@csm.arts.ac.uk) or via Teams chat.
Ahead of the coming Wednesday session please take time to look through each other’s project proposals to prepare for giving peer-to-peer feedback.
UNIT6 understanding:
Who is your intercultural prac ce for?
What is your intercultural prac ce about? What is your specific and burgeoning area of exper se?
Who will be interested in your intercultural prac ce and why?
What sites does your prac ce span and how does a sense of site complement your ongoing work on context?
How is your prac ce engaging with intercultural and other trends and developments? What makes relevant – now?
publicly facing project
In this twenty-credits, you will iden fy your audience and plan, realise and reflect on your project.
IRL and URL sites
How it’s produced, organised, experienced, archived;
In Unit 6 you will share the work you have in any forms that you deem appropriate to the content.
cri cally reflect on your prac ce and share this through the genres of proposal and report writing
CREATE A PROPOSAL AND A REPORT!!!
communicate, exchange, and debate ideas within a global framework
accessible to its audience(s) and reach beyond the culture producer’s immediate geographic and socioeconomic range.
UNI DOESNT HAVE direct access to MY project, SO THEY WILL ASSES THROUGH MY REPORT.
place or site your creative and cultural work into the world.
how this project propels your future work.
Unit 6 should anticipate Unit 7
As publics engage with your work, new insights and questions will emerge about the place, situation, context, scope, response and so on. Use these to propel your research by envisioning a daisy chain of curiosity linking Units 6 and 7.
SUBMITTION:
Assessment requires you to produce an evalua ve illustrated report in the form of an image/ word document. (See notes above under The Rhythm and Expecta ons of Unit 6.)
Submission date and me: 12:00 pm (noon) on 17 March 2025 (Moodle Upload)
As the course handbook does not specify a length for your submission, the following are some guidelines in keeping with the expecta ons of a twenty-credit unit: — Focus on quality instead of quan ty by limi ng your report to 3500 – 4000 words, exclusive of cap ons, bibliography, text in charts, appendixes and links to online documents that serve a supplementary role. Moving image, audio or other me-based work, this should not exceed 5 mins total. Include cap oned images: photographs, drawings, graphics, etc. and reference these in your text.
PROPOSAL:
Evolving Intercultural Practice: IVE built a foundation in Units 1–5, and now it’s time to refine and share your work.
Animating Questions: These guide your project’s purpose, audience, relevance, and engagement.
Public-Facing Project: Create work that resonates in real and/or digital public spaces.
Post-Internet Practice: Consider the evolving nature of culture and its online/physical intersections.
UNESCO Intercultural Competences: Develop a project that fosters intercultural understanding and reaches beyond your immediate community.
Long-Term Vision: Use this project to pave the way for your post-graduation goals.
IDEAS:
Interactive Art Installation:
Concept: Create an installation that showcases female community in Cypriot culture, combining physical artifacts with digital projections or soundscapes. Public Engagement: Invite audiences to share their own stories of community, bridging cultural connections.
Digital Exhibition and Workshop Series:
Concept: Develop an online gallery featuring your work on themes of light, shadow, and female relationships, paired with a workshop on intercultural storytelling or illustration. Public Engagement: Use interactive elements like live Q&A, forums, or user-submitted artwork.
Community Collaboration Project:
Concept: Collaborate with women in your community (or globally online) to co-create a series of artworks, reflecting shared or contrasting cultural values. Public Engagement: Document the process through video, social media, or a blog. Host a public unveiling or online launch.
Mapping Project:
Concept: Create a visual map that blends Cypriot cultural symbols with universal ideas of home, belonging, and female kinship. Use AR (augmented reality) to add interactive elements. Public Engagement: Share the project digitally and allow audiences to contribute their own “markers” of community.
Project proposal’ submission on Monday 20th January 2025? The proposal should cover the scope of your project + how it can be assessed (e.g. reported on). These documents will be important to build a collective understanding of the types of projects taking place and the audiences involved; helping me to structure some of our sessions
